17-1713c. Same; procedure for transfer of property.
17-1713c
17-1713c. 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 missionary Baptist state convention
of Kansas, or by any member of such church or society, when duly
authorized thereto by the executive board of said missionary Baptist
state 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.
17-1713b, 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 missionary Baptist state convention of Kansas;
it being the intent and purpose of this act to preserve to the Baptist
denomination aforesaid of this state all property owned by or held in
trust for any such church or society for religious uses.
History: L. 1939, ch. 160, § 3; June 30.