Petition Text: 22081-MN-517-D

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Amend ¶ 517:

Selection and Assignment.----1. Inasmuch as the district superintendency...the provisions of mandatory retirement.

2. Annual conference cabinets may, with consent of the bishop and the annual conference, ask that the bishop of the area appoint one of their number to specific area-wide responsibility deemed of sufficient importance to the welfare of the congregations of the episcopal area. Another district superintendent may be named by the bishop to carry on the duties of the district superintendent who has been appointed to the area-wide responsibility.

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Petition Text: 22081-MN-517-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference