Order of the Holy Lakes/Draft Charter

The Senate of the Lakes, as sovereign of the Order of the Holy Lakes, in the name of His Majesty the King among the Lakes, their Imperial, Royal and Serene Highnesses the Princes and Princesses among the Lakes, and the Right Honourable the Knights, Ladies and Esquires of the Holy Lakes, pronounces the following Charter for the Order of the Holy Lakes.

Membership

Book of Members

1. Members of the Order of the Holy Lakes shall be inscribed in the Book of Members.
   1. It is the duty of the Chancellor, or to such other person to whom the Chancellor or, in the absence of the Chancellor or Commander, the Senate directs, to keep the Book of Members updated.
   2. Births, marriages, divorces, and deaths shall be inscribed.
   3. Only persons recorded in the Book of Members shall be considered members.

Induction or election

1. Membership to the Order of the Holy Lakes, by right of induction or election, is extended to persons who:
   1. have been inducted to the Order of the Holy Lakes by decree or decision of the head of state of Hurmu, or
   2. have been inducted or elected to the Senate of the Lakes (without having previously been members), or the unified Senate of Elwynn and Hurmu between 1574 and 1599, or
   3. have been the ultimate head of state of Hurmu, either executive or symbolic, and recognized as such by the Order of the Holy Lakes
2. When a person is inducted or elected to the Order, the Chancellor shall ensure that the name of the new person is inscribed into the Book of Members.

Descent

1. Membership of the Order of the Holy Lakes, by right of descent, is extended by blood or adoption (if adopted as a minor) to any person descended from a person inducted or elected to the Order of the Holy Lakes.
2. It is the responsibility of parents, being members of the Order, to report the birth of their child, so that the child is inscribed into the Book of Members.
3. Persons who are not inscribed into the Book of Members may petition the Chancellor to be inscribed into the Book of Members. Such petition shall be granted if:
   1. the person can prove an unbroken chain of descent (by blood or adoption as a child) from a person inducted or elected to the Order.

Marriage

Right of Marriage

1. Membership to the Order of the Holy Lakes by right of marriage is extended to persons who are married to a member by right of induction, election or descent, provided that,
   1. the marriage is legal, and considered marriage or equivalent to marriage, in the jurisdiction in which it occurred,
   2. the marriage is reported to the Order of the Holy Lakes and inscribed in the Book of Members
   3. the spouse claiming membership by right of marriage is not concurrently married to anyone else,
   4. in case of death of the person from which the member by right of marriage claims membership, membership in the Order shall continue only until remarriage outside the Order (that is, if there is a subsequent marriage to someone outside the Order, membership shall lapse)

Dissolution of Marriage

1. If a divorce, annulment or otherwise dissolution of marriage, occurs, the parties shall report it to the Order, and it shall be inscribed into the Book of Members.
   1. If there is a dispute between the parties with regard to whether the dissolution has occurred, the dispute shall be brought to the Senate which shall arbitrate or, failing arbitration, adjudicate the dispute.
2. Petition for dissolution of marriage may also be brought to the Senate directly.
   1. If the parties are in agreement, the Chancellor may testify to the dissolution and inscribe it in the Book of Members.
   2. If there is a disagreement between the parties as to whether the dissolution should occur, the Senate shall consider the petition on its merits and arbitrate, and, failing arbitration, adjudicate the dispute.

Loss of membership

1. Membership is lost if,
   1. derived by right of marriage
      1. upon divorce,
      2. after being widowed, upon remarriage,
      3. by petition
      4. by resolution of the Senate
      5. by loss of membership from whom the member derives claim
   2. derived by right of induction or election
      1. by petition
      2. by resolution of the Senate
   3. derived by right of descent
      1. by petition
      2. by resolution of the Senate
      3. by loss of membership from whom the member derives claim