Decision Number 56

Decision

The legal effect of this proposal would be to change Annual Conference and Jurisdictional Conference boundaries by allocating to the territory of the Southern California Arizona Conference of the Western Jurisdiction, a Negro church or churches heretofore included in the West Texas Conference of the Central Jurisdiction.

The definite provisions which must be fully complied with in order to change boundaries of Jurisdictional Conferences are found in the Constitution of The Methodist Church. See Paragraph 8, Article IV, Section 12, and Paragraph 28, Article III. These provisions distinctly provide that no such change may be effected without the consent of a majority of the Annual Conferences of each Jurisdiction involved.

As this present procedure represented by Committee on Conferences Report No. 4, does not comply with the foregoing Constitutional provisions, the decision of the Judicial Council is that this legislation is invalid