Petition Text: 22622-CO-36-C

Understanding Petition Numbers

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Amend ¶ 36:

...or Central Conferences, on all matters relating to the character and conference relations of its ministerial members, and on the ordination of ministers and such other rights as have not been delegated to the General Conference under the Constitution, with the exception that the lay members may not vote on matters of ordination, character, and conference relations of ministers. Only the clergy members may vote on matters of ordination, character, and conference relations of ministers, with the exception of lay members properly elected by the annual conference to those organizational bodies charged with the oversight of these matters and only within the scope of their duties on these bodies as defined by the General Conference. It shall discharge such duties....

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Petition Text: 22622-CO-36-C
1996 United Methodist General Conference