Membership Development
Membership
Chapters in this Grand Jurisdiction may receive petitions from and confer degrees of the Order upon affiliated Master Masons in good standing, the wives, daughters, legally adopted daughters, mothers, widows, sisters, half-sisters, granddaughters, stepmothers, stepdaughters, stepsisters, daughters-in-laws, grandmothers, great-granddaughters, nieces, great-nieces, mothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts (Ritual 2009) and, daughters of sisters or brothers of affiliated Master Masons in good standing, or if deceased, were in good standing at the time of their death; as well its members either active for three (3) years or majority of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls or of the International Order of Job's Daughters, (Ritual, 2000), each of whom shall have attained to at least the age of eighteen (18) years. In 1994 this was expanded to include nieces, daughters-in-law and grandmothers.