17-1713. Same; procedure for transfer of property.
17-1713
17-1713. Same; procedure for transfer of property.
That an application for such an order and disposition of property may be
made by any member or officer of the said Kansas Baptist Convention, or
by any member of such church or society, when duly authorized thereto by
the board of managers of said Kansas Baptist Convention, upon a verified
petition setting forth the facts authorizing such order and disposition
of property.
Upon the presentation of such petition to the district court such
court may proceed in a summary manner, after such notice as the court
may prescribe, to inquire into the merits of such application; and if
upon examination by the court it shall satisfactorily appear that the
making of the order and disposition of the property applied for is
necessary or proper, for any of the causes mentioned in K.S.A.
17-1712, such court shall make a final order, declaring
such church or society extinct and dissolving the same, and transferring
any property and the title and possession thereof which may belong to
such church or society, or held in trust for such church or society, and
vesting the same in the said Kansas Baptist Convention; it being the
intent and purpose of this act to preserve to the Baptist denomination
of this state all property owned by or held in trust for any such church
or society for religious uses.
History: L. 1911, ch. 139, § 3; May 22; R.S. 1923, 17-1713.