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29. Article IV.--The central conferences shall have the following powers and duties and such others as may be conferred by the General Conference:1. To promote the evangelistic, educational, missionary, social-concern, and benevolent interests and institutions of the Church within their own boundaries.
2. To elect the bishops for the respective central conferences in number as may be determined from time to time, upon a basis fixed by the General Conference, and to cooperate in carrying out such plans for the support of their bishops as may be determined by the General Conference.43
3. To establish and constitute such central conference boards as may be required and to elect their administrative officers.44
4. To determine the boundaries of the annual conferences within their respective areas.
5. To make such rules and regulations for the administration of the work within their boundaries including such changes and adaptations of the General Discipline as the conditions in the respective areas may require, subject to the powers that have been or shall be vested in the General Conference.45
6. To appoint a judicial court to determine legal questions arising on the rules, regulations, and such revised, adapted, or new sections of the central conference Discipline enacted by the central conference.
7. To appoint a committee on appeals to hear and determine the appeal of a traveling preacher of that central conference from the decision of a committee on trial.46
43See Judicial Council Decision 370.
44See Judicial Council Decision 69.
45See Judicial Council Decisions 142, 147, 313.
46See Judicial Council Decision 595.
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 29
1996 United Methodist General Conference