Section VI. Local Church
Property
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2524. Local
Church Board of Trustees'Qualifications--In each pastoral charge consisting
of one local church, there shall be a board of trustees, consisting of
not fewer than three nor more than nine persons, and it is recommended that at
least one third be laywomen and that at least one third be laymen. The trustees
shall be of legal age as determined by law, and at least two thirds shall be
members of The United Methodist Church (see ¶¶ 262.1, 262.3, 2529).6
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6. See Judicial Council Decision 500.