1. Call to order.
2. Roll call and prayer
3. reading of minutes of last meeting.
4. Unfinished business.
5. Reports of Committees.
6. New business.
7. Prayer and adjournment.

Section 2. The General Council may by appropriate ordinance adopt such rules and regulations as it thinks desirable in carrying out the order of business.

ARTICLE VIII - DUTIES OF OFFICERS

The Secretary shall cause to be prepared all minutes, resolutions and ordinances enacted at all meetings and distribute copies, by mail if feasible, to the members of the General Council and to the Area Office. The Secretary shall cause to be maintained files, records, and correspondence of the General Council in an orderly manner for the convenience of the General Council and exercise such other duties as may be specifically delegated to the Secretary. The Secretary shall attend to the giving and serving of all notices of the General Council as required by this constitution. Until the General Council by ordinance directs otherwise, the depository of the Council's records and enactments shall be in the Tribal office in Wewoka, Oklahoma, such documents to become the permanent records of the Seminole Nation.

ARTICLE IX - REMOVAL AND THE FILLING OF VACANCIES

Section 1. The General Council may by an affirmative vote of nineteen (19) members remove any officer or band representative from office who fails to carry out his or her responsibilities or who is found guilty in any court of competent jurisdiction of a misdemeanor involving dishonesty, or for any gross neglect of duty or misconduct reflecting on the dignity and integrity of the General Council. No vote taken, however, shall be considered valid unless the individual so charged shall have been given a written statement containing the charges made against him or her at least ten (10) days before any meeting of the General Council and has been afforded an opportunity to answer, before the General Council, and all of the written charges. (As amended, February 25, 1989.)

Section 2. The General Council shall automatically declare vacant the seat of any member who dies, resigns, is found guilty of a felony in any court of competent jurisdiction, or who fails or refuses to attend two regular meetings in succession unless excused by the General Council.

Section 3. In case of the death, resignation or removal of the Chief, the General Council at its next regular meeting shall confirm the Assistant Chief as Chief. In the case of the death, advancement, resignation or removal of the Assistant Chief, the General Council at its next regular meeting shall by an affirmative vote of fifteen (15) of its members select a qualified member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma to fill the vacancy. It shall be the responsibility of

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