17-1713c.   Same; procedure for transfer of property.That an application for such an order and disposition of property may bemade by any member or officer of the missionary Baptist state conventionof Kansas, or by any member of such church or society, when dulyauthorized thereto by the executive board of said missionary Baptiststate convention upon a verified petition setting forth the factsauthorizing such order and disposition of property.

      Upon the presentation of such petition to the district court suchcourt may proceed in a summary manner, after such notice as the courtmay prescribe, to inquire into the merits of such application; and ifupon examination by the court it shall satisfactorily appear that themaking of the order and disposition of the property applied for isnecessary or proper, for any of the causes mentioned in K.S.A.17-1713b, such court shall make a final order, declaringsuch church or society extinct and dissolving the same, and transferringany property and the title and possession thereof which may belong tosuch church or society, or held in trust for such church or society, andvesting the same in the missionary Baptist state convention of Kansas;it being the intent and purpose of this act to preserve to the Baptistdenomination aforesaid of this state all property owned by or held intrust for any such church or society for religious uses.

      History:   L. 1939, ch. 160, § 3; June 30.