Chapter 46 : Jurisdiction

Paragraph 3 :

46-3. Members of one church dismissed to join another shall be held to be under the jurisdiction of the Session dismissing them until they form a regular connection with that to which they have been dismissed.

[HISTORICAL SUMMARY : The current PCA text remains unchanged from that of PCUS 1925. PCUS 1879 has only a minor difference of one word. The earlier PCUS drafts are interesting in that they speak as if jurisdiction were assigned to the congregation, rather than the Session of the church.]

ANTECEDENT TEXTS :
1. PCA 1973, RoD, 20-3, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly, p. 155
2. Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, RoD, 20-3, Proposed text, p. 61
3. PCUS 1933, RoD, XV-§299
4. PCUS 1925, RoD, XV-§299
Members of one church dismissed to join another shall be held to be under the jurisdiction of the Session dismissing them
until they form a regular connection with that to which they have been dismissed.

PCUS 1879, Rules of Discipline, XV-3
Members of one church dismissed to join another shall be held to be under the jurisdiction of the Session dismissing them,
till they form a regular connection with that to which they have been dismissed.

PCUS 1869 draft, Canons of Discipline, XV-3
Members of one Congregation dismissed to join another, shall be held to be under the jurisdiction of the congregation dismissing them,
till they form a regular connexion with that to which they have been dismissed.

PCUS 1867 draft, Canons of Discipline, XV-3
Members of one congregation dismissed to join another shall be held to be under the jurisdiction of the congregation dismissing them,
till they form a regular connexion with that to which they have been dismissed.