Text of: 30288-IC-NonDis-O!
Whereas, in order to make more effectual the efforts of the United Methodist Church in creating a Christian public sentiment and in crystallizing opposition to all public violations of the moral law, and especially to oppose the many evils existing in society caused by the consumption of alcoholic beverages and other drugs; and
Whereas, to promote an intensive educational program for voluntary total abstinence from all intoxicants and narcotics; and
Whereas, said educational program to include the use of radio, television, publication and distribution of literature; and
Whereas, to promote observance and enforcement of constitutional provisions and statutory enactments which suppress the traffic in alcoholic beverages and in narcotic drugs; and
Whereas, to promote the speedy enactment of such legislation throughout the world,
Therefore, be it resolved that the 2000 General Conference shall create a Standing General Commission on Alcohol and Drugs.
Be it further resolved that the Commission shall be incorporated in the District of Columbia; it shall be the legal successor and successor in trust of the corporations, boards, departments or entities known as the Department Of Human Welfare of the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church;
The Commission shall have a General Secretary and one or more Associate General Secretaries as its work may show necessary. The Commission shall be otherwise organized and operate according to the general provisions of the Administrative Order of The Book of Discipline, except where they may be in conflict with the provisions herein adopted specifically for the Commission. The first General Secretary shall be chosen solely by the Commission;
It's membership shall consist of thirty persons elected by the Jurisdictional Conferences from the jurisdictional pool, and three Bishops elected by the Council of Bishops. Those elected shall be chosen solely for their demonstrated concern about the problems caused in our society by the presence and use of alcoholic beverages and other drugs;
Each jurisdiction shall elect six persons from the list of persons proposed for General Agency membership by the annual conferences; a jurisdiction may elect a maximum of four clergy members or four lay members. At the first meeting of each quadrennium and each annual meeting thereafter, the Commission may elect an additional person or persons based on special expertise that will aid the Commission, with a maximum of five elected each quadrennium;
Any vacancies shall be filled by the procedure defined in paragraph 712 of The Book of Discipline.
There shall be officers of the Commission including a president, a vice president, a secretary and a treasurer. The executive committee shall be composed of the elected officers and two additional persons selected by the Commission from among its other members. The General Secretary of the Commission shall be a member of the executive committee with voice but not vote. The executive committee shall have the power, on an interim basis, to fill vacancies occurring in the elected staff and to transact such business and adopt such resolutions and statement authorized between meetings of the Commission;
The Commission shall hold an annual meeting at the time and place determined by its executive committee and other meetings as its work may require, and shall enact suitable bylaws governing the activities of the Commission and its employees. A majority of the membership shall constitute a quorum;
The Commission shall be funded like other general agencies of the church (paragraph 906 of The Book of Discipline). During its first quadrennium, it shall receive from the funds otherwise authorized for the use of the General Board of Church and Society, that percentage which corresponds to the amount authorized for the use of the Board of Temperance (1956-60) that the former Boards of Temperance, World Peace and Social & Economic Relations received from/through individual appropriations;
The Commission shall be authorized to solicit and create special funds; to receive gifts and bequests; to hold properties and securities in trust; and to administer all these financial affairs in accordance with its own rules and the provisions of The Book of Discipline;
Each annual conference shall establish a Commission on Alcohol and Drugs. The total membership of this commission shall be determined by each annual conference. Each member of the Commission shall be an exofficio member, with vote, of the annual conference where that member resides or has their membership. Clergy appointed beyond the local church may, if they choose, be a member of the Commission of the annual conference where they reside;
Each local church shall have a Work Area for Alcohol and Drugs;
This legislation shall be come effective 90 days after General Conference has adjourned.
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