Chapter 33: Special Rules Pertaining to Process Before Sessions

33-1. Process against all church members, other than ministers of the
Gospel, shall be entered before the Session of the church to which such
members belong, except in cases of appeal. However, if the Session refuses to
act in doctrinal cases or instances of public scandal and two other Sessions of
churches in the same Presbytery request the Presbytery of which the church is
a member to initiate proper or appropriate action in a case of process and thus
assume jurisdiction and authority, the Presbytery shall do so.

33-2. When an accused person is found contumacious (cf. 32-6), he shall be
immediately suspended from the sacraments (and if an officer from his office)
for his contumacy. Record shall be made of the fact and of the charges under
which he was arraigned, and the censure may be made public, should this be
deemed expedient by the Session. The censure shall in no case be removed
until the offender has not only repented of his contumacy, but has also given
satisfaction in relation to the charges against him.

33-3. If after further endeavor by the court to bring the accused to a sense of
his guilt, he persists in his contumacy, he shall be excommunicated from the
Church.