1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 2501

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Chapter Seven

CHURCH PROPERTY

Section I. All Titles--in Trust

2501. Titles to Properties--In consonance with the legal definition and self-understanding of The United Methodist Church (see 114), and with particular reference to its lack of capacityto hold title to property, The United Methodist Church is organized as a connectional structure, and titles to all properties held at General, jurisdictional, annual, or district conference levels, or by a local Church or charge, or by an agency or institution of the Church, shall be held in trust for The United Methodist Church and subject to the

provisions of its Discipline. Titles are not held by The United Methodist Church (see 906.7) or by The General Conference of The United Methodist Church, but instead by the incorporated conferences, agencies, or organizations of the denomination, or in the case of unincorporated bodies of the denomination, by boards of trustees established for the purpose of holding and administering property.

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