Decision Number 151

Decision

It is therefore the decision of the Judicial Council that a rule adopted by an Annual Conference authorizing Official Boards to provide for the payment, in whole or in part, of parsonage utilities (including heat, light, gas, telephone and water) the amount paid not to exceed the actual cost of such utilities, and providing that such sums need not be reported as salary, but must be reported in an appropriate column in the statistical records of the minutes, is not in conflict with the provisions of Section 6 of Paragraph 1624 of the 1956 Discipline or any other provision of said Discipline.