Petition Text: 20470-MN-735.1-D

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Amend ¶735.1:

1. There shall be a Annual Conferences shall provide for a structure which shall perform the functions, duties, and responsibilities assigned to the conference Committee on Episcopacy by ¶735.3, by structuring itself as it deems appropriate. elected quadrennially by the Annual Conference at the session following the General Conference. The committee's membership shall number at least seven but no more than seventeen. One- fifth of the committee's membership shall be appointed by the bishop. In addition to the lay and clergy members of the jurisdictional Committee on Episcopacy, who shall be ex- officio members with vote, The Annual Conferences shall determine the membership of the structure to which the duties and responsibilities are assigned. The structure may be assigned other duties and responsibilities, and nothing shall prevent membership in common with structures organized to perform other functions within the Annual Conference. References to the "conference Committee on Episcopacy" or to "the committee" in this ¶735 and its various subparagraphs and elsewhere in the Discipline in appropriate context, shall be construed and interpreted to refer to the structure so provided pursuant to this paragraph, whatever it may be named or called. Nevertheless, Iit is recommended that the committee structure consist of the following: one- third laywomen, one- third laymen, and one- third clergy persons, provided that one layperson shall should be the conference lay leader. Special attention shall be given to the inclusion of racial and ethnic persons, youth (264.2), young adults (264.3), older adults (254.5), and persons with handicapping conditions. No member of the staff of the Annual Conference of any of its agencies, nor an immediate family member of such staff, shall serve as a member of the committee structure when it sits as the Conference Committee on Episcopacy, except that a member...

Two or more conferences under the presidency of a single bishop may decide to have one structure to function as a Committee on Episcopacy, in which case the each Annual Conferences shall agree on the number of representatives from each conference, and shall provide for the election of be represented as stated in the preceding paragraph and shall each elect its own representatives.

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Petition Text: 20470-MN-735.1-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference