23-2. The Presbytery may designate a minister as honorably retired when the minister by reason of age wishes to be retired, or as medically disabled when by reason of infirmity is no longer able to serve the church in the active ministry of the Gospel. A minister medically disabled or honorably retired shall continue to hold membership in his Presbytery. He may serve on committees or commissions if so elected or appointed.

DIGEST: This paragraph dates to 1982 [M10GA, 10-89, Item 5, p. 113], with subsequent changes effected in 1989 [M17GA, 17-6, Item 4, p. 44].

BACKGROUND & COMPARISON:
No comparable text for the following editions:
1. PCA 1973, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly,
2. Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, Proposed text,
3. PCUS 1879,
4. PCUS 1869 draft,
5. PCUS 1867 draft, Chapter VI, Section 5

COMMENTARY :
F.P. Ramsay, Exposition of the Book of Church Order (1898)
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