I.   Introductory Provisions

Competency is one of the eight standard characteristics required of a Trustee being fit, proper and qualified to produce and argue reason through knowledge and skill of Law, Logic and Rhetoric.

Under the character of Competence, a Fiduciary is forbidden to act in the Capacity of a Trustee of any kind:

(i) Where a person is not bound by any sacred Oath or Vow to perform such Office; or

(ii) Where a person belongs to a religion, society, entity or order that is recorded as performing any formal or sacred ritual to repudiate Oaths or Vows made in the past or into the future; or

(iii) Where a person belongs to a religion, society, entity or order that requires the making of one or more Oaths or Vows that are contradictory to the Golden Rule and Rule of Law, Justice and Due Process; or

(iv) Where a person belongs to a religion, society, entity or order that requires the making of one or more Oaths or Vows that result in behavior that results in less than exemplary character of honesty and fidelity and the disregard of good faith, good character and good conscience; or

(v) When a person has been found culpable in accord with the present Canons and Rule of Law to be ethically and morally unfit to act in the capacity of a Trustee; or

(vi) When a person has been found mentally incompetent and mentally incapable in accord with the present Canons to act in the capacity of a Trustee.

A person occupying the role, office or position of Trustee that willfully and deliberately engages in a manner forbidden by the characteristic of Competency is guilty of a major breach of trust.

A Trustee cannot hold such office in the absence of Competency or proof of engaging in a manner forbidden by the characteristic of Competency.