1996 Book of Discipline: Paragraph 810| General Conference 2000

¶ 810. Definition of General Funds--1. The terms general fund(s) and general church fund(s), wherever they appear in the Book of Discipline, refer to: the World Service Fund, including World Service Special Gifts and Advance Special Gifts; the General Administration Fund; the Episcopal Fund; the Interdenominational Cooperation Fund; the Ministerial Education Fund; the Black College Fund; the Missional Priority Fund; the Temporary General Aid Fund; the World Communion Fund; the Human Relations Day Fund; the United Methodist Student Day Fund; the One Great Hour of Sharing Fund; the World Order Sunday Fund; Peace with Justice Sunday Fund; Native American Awareness Sunday Fund; the Youth Service Fund; and such other funds as may have been established by the General Conference and have been specifically authorized by the General Conference to be raised on a churchwide basis. They are restricted assets and are not funds of local churches, annual or jurisdictional conferences, or other units of the denomination. Such general funds are to be disbursed for the purpose or purposes set forth in ¶¶ 812{@-}832 and budgets or similar directives adopted for the respective funds by the General Conference. The General Council on Finance and Administration, in the fulfillment of its fiscal responsibilities pursuant to ¶ 806, shall only have authority to disburse monies contributed to any of these funds in a manner specifically authorized by the Book of Discipline or for a purpose set forth in the budget or directives adopted by the preceding General Conference for that particular fund.

2. The terms agency(ies) receiving general Church funds and treasury(ies) receiving general Church funds, as used in ¶¶ 701{@-}832 of the Book of Discipline, refer to agencies whose operational or administrative budgets are directly supported, in whole or in part, by allocations from one or more general Church funds. For the purposes of ¶¶ 701{@-}832, the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits and The United Methodist Publishing House shall be deemed not to be agencies or treasuries whose operational or administrative budgets are directly supported, in whole or in part, by allocations from one or more general Church funds.



	1996 Discipline ¶ 810
	`GENERAL FUNDS` ¶ 810. Definition of General Funds--1. The terms general fund(s) and general church fund(s), wherever they appear in the Book of Discipline, refer to: the World Service Fund, including World Service Special Gifts and Advance Special Gifts; the General Administration Fund; the Episcopal Fund; the Interdenominational Cooperation Fund; the Ministerial Education Fund; the Black College Fund; the Missional Priority Fund; the Temporary General Aid Fund; the World Communion Fund; the Human Relations Day Fund; the United Methodist Student Day Fund; the One Great Hour of Sharing Fund; the World Order Sunday Fund; Peace with Justice Sunday Fund; Native American Awareness Sunday Fund; the Youth Service Fund; and such other funds as may have been established by the General Conference and have been specifically authorized by the General Conference to be raised on a churchwide basis. They are restricted assets and are not funds of local churches, annual or jurisdictional conferences, or other units of the denomination. Such general funds are to be disbursed for the purpose or purposes set forth in ¶¶ 812{@-}832 and budgets or similar directives adopted for the respective funds by the General Conference. The General Council on Finance and Administration, in the fulfillment of its fiscal responsibilities pursuant to ¶ 806, shall only have authority to disburse monies contributed to any of these funds in a manner specifically authorized by the Book of Discipline or for a purpose set forth in the budget or directives adopted by the preceding General Conference for that particular fund. 2. The terms agency(ies) receiving general Church funds and treasury(ies) receiving general Church funds, as used in ¶¶ 701{@-}832 of the Book of Discipline, refer to agencies whose operational or administrative budgets are directly supported, in whole or in part, by allocations from one or more general Church funds. For the purposes of ¶¶ 701{@-}832, the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits and The United Methodist Publishing House shall be deemed not to be agencies or treasuries whose operational or administrative budgets are directly supported, in whole or in part, by allocations from one or more general Church funds.
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1996 Discipline ¶ 810