8.1  A synod consists of at least three presbyteries in a prescribed area and the ministers and the elder representatives from the churches within those presbyteries.
     8.2  Representation to synod may be based on either all ministers and the elder representative/s from each church within the presbyteries with one (1) elder representative from each church for every 300 active members or a portion thereof or designated representatives from each presbytery consisting of one (1) elder and one (1) minister for every 1,000 active members or a portion thereof within the presbytery; the elders being from different churches.
     8.3  The synod having met at the time and place appointed may proceed to business provided a quorum of six persons (ministers and session representatives) are present, including at least one minister and one elder, with representation from at least three presbyteries.
     8.4  Members of a presbytery from which an appeal or protest is made shall not be entitled to vote on that question.
     8.5  A synod has the oversight and responsibility to:

a.		Examine and decide appeals, protests, and referrals regularly sent up from the presbyteries;
b.		Review the records of the presbyteries, redress whatever they may have done contrary to order, take effectual care that they observe the government of the church and obey the injunctions of the higher judicatories;
c.		Organize, divide, or dissolve presbyteries, when deemed expedient;
d.		Appoint persons to such work as may be under synod's jurisdiction;
e.		Formulate budgets and assign shares to the presbyteries;
f.		In general, to order with respect to the presbyteries, sessions, and churches under its care according to the government of the church, whatever may seem to edify the church;
g.		Settle differences regarding church property and its use, upon appeal;
h.		Concert measures for promoting the prosperity and enlargement of the church within its bounds; and,
i.		Propose to the General Assembly such measures as may be of common advantage to the entire church.

     8.6  The synod shall keep full and accurate records of its proceedings, submit them to the General Assembly for review at its stated meetings, and in general, report on all important changes and the state of religion within its bounds, as well as supplying other information which may be requested by the General Assembly.
     8.7  The synod shall meet as often as once every two years on its own adjournment, and when an emergency shall require a meeting sooner than the time to which it stands adjourned, the moderator, or in case of the moderator's absence, death, or inability to act, the stated clerk shall with written concurrence or at the written request of three minister members and three session members, with representation from at least three presbyteries, call a special meeting. The call shall give notice, specifying the particular business of the intended meeting, to every minister and session of every particular church on its roll, at least thirty days prior to the proposed time of meeting. Nothing shall be transacted at such a called meeting other than the particular business for which the synod was convened.
     8.8  If, for any cause, the synod shall fail to meet according to its adjournment, it shall be the duty of the moderator, or, in case of the moderator's absence, death, or inability to act, the stated clerk, or, in case of the stated clerk's absence, death, or inability to act, persons constituting the equivalent of a quorum, to call a meeting as early as practical, at such place as may be designated, for the transaction of the regular business. For this purpose notice shall be given to every minister and session on its roll at least thirty days prior to the meeting.