icle II. Name.--The name of the Church shall be The
36. Article II.--The annual conference is the basic body in the Church and as such shall have reserved to it the right to vote on all constitutional amendments, on the election of ministerial and lay delegates to the General and the jurisdictional or central conferences, on all matters relating to the character and conference relations of its ministerial members, and on the ordination of ministers and such other rights as have not been delegated to the General Conference under the Constitution, with the exception that the lay members may not vote on matters of ordination, character, and conference relations of ministers. It shall discharge such duties and exercise such powers as the General Conference under the Constitution may determine.52
52See Judicial Council Decisions 78, 79, 132, 405, 406, 415, 524, 532, 534, 552, 584.
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 36
1996 United Methodist General Conference