Petition Text: 20065-CO-702.1-D

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Amend ¶ 702:

1. ...and local pastors under full time appointment to a pastoral charge (¶408.1).

c) Associate and affiliate clergy members shall have the right to vote in the Annual Conference on all matters except constitutional amendments, election of clergy lay delegates...

d) Affiliate clergy members shall have the right to vote in the Annual Conference on all matters except constitutional amendments, election of clergy delegates to the General and Jurisdictional or Central Conferences, and matters of ordination, character, and conference relations of clergy.

d)e) Local pastors under full time appointment to a pastoral charge shall have the right to vote in the Annual Conference on all matters except constitutional amendments, election of lay delegates...

e)f) Under special conditions, and for missional reasons, an Annual Conference may, by a two- thirds majority vote of its members present, allow local and student local part time pastors under appointment to a pastoral charge the right to vote at Annual Conference on all matters except constitutional amendments, election of clergy delegates...

2. The following shall be seated in the Annual Conference and shall be given the privilege of the floor without vote: part time and student local pastors;...

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Petition Text: 20065-CO-702.1-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference