Decision Number 1331
SUBJECT TO FINAL EDITING
October 28, 2016
Decision
A bishop may not make a substantive ruling on a request for Decision of Law, which in essence is a petition for Declaratory Decision. Questions pertaining to the constitutionality of an act of General Conference that fall within the jurisdiction of the Judicial Council, are beyond the scope of episcopal authority. The bishop's Decision of Law is reversed.
Deanell Reece Tacha was not present.
First lay alternate Warren Plowden participated in this decision.