Section IX. Charge Conferences

¶ 43. Article I. —There shall be organized in each charge a charge conference composed of such persons and invested with such powers as the General Conference shall provide.

¶ 44. Article II. Election of Church Officers—Unless the General Conference shall order otherwise, the officers of the church or churches constituting a charge shall be elected by the charge conference or by the professing89 members of said church or churches at a meeting called for that purpose, as may be arranged by the charge conference, unless the election is otherwise required by local church charters or state or provincial law.

Section I. Conferences | Section II. General Conference | Section III. Restrictive Rules | Section IV. Jurisdictional Conferences | Section V. Central Conferences | Section VI. Annual Conferences | Section VII. Boundaries | Section VIII. District Conferences | Section IX. Charge Conferences

89. Amended 2000.

From The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church - 2004. Copyright 2004 by The United Methodist Publishing House. Used by permission.