Petition Text: 21488-MN-452-D

Understanding Petition Numbers

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Amend ¶ 452:

Retirement.----Retired ordained ministers clergy members are those who have been placed in the retired relation either at their own request or by action of the clergy members in full connection ordained elders upon recommendation of the Board of Ordained Ministry. (See ¶¶ 1606- 1609 and The Ministerial Pension Plan for pension information.)...

2. a) With Twenty Years of Service.- ----Any clergy members of the Annual Conference...

b) With Thirty- five Years of Service or at Age Sixty- two.----- At their own request...sixty- two on or before July 1 or will have completed thirty- five years of service under appointment as ordained ministers, or as local pastors with pension credit for service before 1982 or with full participation in the Comprehensive Protection Plan since 1981, in the year in which the session of the Annual Conference is held or will have completed thirty-five years of service under appointment as an ordained minister, or a local pastor with pension credit for service before 1982 or with full participation in the Comprehensive Protection Plan since 1981, as of the conference session may be placed in the retired relation...

d) ...as the effective date of retirement of an ordained minister a clergy member who is placed in the retired relation...

3. Involuntary Retirement.----- By a two- thirds vote of those present and voting, the clergy members of the Annual Conference in full connection may place...This process shall not preclude the rights to appeal and trial by any person so guaranteed by our Constitution. Any clergy member who is placed in the retired relationship under this subparagraph shall be entitled to the privilege of receiving their pensions for the number of approved years served in the Annual Conference or conferences and such other benefits as the final Annual Conference may provide, payment to begin the first of any month after the ordained minister attains age sixty- two. If pension begins prior to the age at which retirement under ¶ 452.2c could have occurred, then the provisions of ¶ 1606.4i shall apply.

5.a) All retired ordained ministers clergy members who are not appointed as pastors of a charge,...

7. Return to Effective Relationship.----A clergy member...by majority vote of the clergy members in full connection of the Annual Conference...Each ordained minister clergy member requesting return...

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Petition Text: 21488-MN-452-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference