Area meetings may take the initiative in terminating membership in cases where:

1. over a prolonged period a Friend has ceased to show any interest in the life of the Society and there seems no reasonable likelihood of renewed participation;
2. a Friend’s address has been unknown for a period of at least three years and cannot, after a careful search, be ascertained;
3. the conduct or publicly expressed opinions of the member are so much at variance with the principles of the Society that the spiritual bond has been broken.