1996 Book of Discipline: Paragraph 2501| General Conference 2000

Chapter Six

CHURCH PROPERTY

Section I. All Titles--In Trust

ś 2501. Titles to Properties--In consonance with the legal definition and self-understanding of The United Methodist Church (see ś 118), and with particular reference to its lack of capacity to hold title to property, The United Methodist Church is organized as a connectional structure, and titles to all properties held at General, jurisdictional, annual, or district conference levels, or by a local church or charge, or by an agency or institution of the Church, shall be held in trust for The United Methodist Church and subject to the provisions of its Discipline. Titles are not held by The United Methodist Church (see ś 806.7) or by the General Conference of The United Methodist Church, but instead by the incorporated conferences, agencies, or organizations of the denomination, or in the case of unincorporated bodies of the denomination, by boards of trustees established for the purpose of holding and administering property.



	1996 Discipline ¶ 2501
	*Chapter Six* CHURCH PROPERTY Section I. All Titles--In Trust ś 2501. Titles to Properties--In consonance with the legal definition and self-understanding of The United Methodist Church (see ś 118), and with particular reference to its lack of capacity to hold title to property, The United Methodist Church is organized as a connectional structure, and titles to all properties held at General, jurisdictional, annual, or district conference levels, or by a local church or charge, or by an agency or institution of the Church, shall be held in trust for The United Methodist Church and subject to the provisions of its Discipline. Titles are not held by The United Methodist Church (see ś 806.7) or by the General Conference of The United Methodist Church, but instead by the incorporated conferences, agencies, or organizations of the denomination, or in the case of unincorporated bodies of the denomination, by boards of trustees established for the purpose of holding and administering property.
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1996 Discipline ¶ 2501