CHAPTER 20
Per Capita Tax and Initiation Fee
Each lodge, including lodges under dispensation,
shall pay annually to the
1. The sum of fifteen dollars and for each member of the
lodge at low twelve on December thirty-first. A lodge shall be exempt from the
payment of the annual assessment to the Grand Lodge for any member who has
received either the Fifty-Year or Sixty-Year Service Award. [5-1.1; 20-1; 81-1; 81-7]. (This
subsection amended, effective
2.
The sum of twenty-one dollars for each Entered Apprentice initiated by
or for the lodge, whether initiated therein or by another lodge for it as a
courtesy, ten dollars of which is for charity, five dollars of which shall
represent a contribution to The George Washington Masonic National Memorial, five dollars to
the Grand Lodge Building Endowment and one dollar is an initiation fee to
be applied to the general fund. [5-1.4; 5-1.7; 5-5; 20-1].
3. Obsolete (This subsection amended, effective 9/25/2004)
4.
All sums due to the Grand Lodge shall be due and payable at the same time the
annual return of a lodge is due to be filed, as set forth in Regulation 47-6, and the failure to comply with
this regulation shall be deemed sufficient cause to apply the assessments and
penalties, in the manner and to the extent provided in Regulation 47-7. [59-12; Chapter 5].