2617. The decisions of the Judicial Council of The Methodist Church, heretofore issued, shall have the same authority in The United Methodist Church as they had in The Methodist Church, persuasive as precedents except where their basis has been changed by the terms of the Plan of Union or other revisions of Church law.
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 2617
1996 United Methodist General Conference