17-1716c. Same; procedure for transfer of property.
17-1716c
17-1716c. Same; procedure for transfer of property.
An application for an order and disposition of property pursuant to K.S.A.
17-1716b and amendments thereto may be
made by any member or officer of the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference of the United
Church of Christ when duly authorized by the board of
trustees, or managers, of the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference of the United Church
of Christ, upon a verified petition setting forth the facts
authorizing such order and disposition of property.
Upon the presentation of such petition to the proper district court,
such court shall proceed in a summary manner as in other civil cases to
inquire into the merits of such application. If upon examination by
the court it appears to the
court that the making
of the order and disposition of the property applied for are necessary
or proper for any cause mentioned in K.S.A. 17-1716b and amendments thereto,
the court shall make a final order declaring such church or
society extinct, dissolving the same and transferring the title and
possession of any property which may belong to such church or society,
or which may be held in trust for such church or society; and
vesting a perfect title to the property in the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference
of the United Church of Christ. It being the intent and purpose
of this act to preserve to the denomination of the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference
of the United Church of Christ all
property owned by, or held in trust for any extinct church or society
of any denomination formerly called the Congregational Church, the Congregational
and Christian Church, the Kansas Congregational and Christian Conference,
the Central-South Conference of the Congregational-Christian Churches or
the Kansas City Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
History: L. 1933, ch. 157, § 3; L. 1981, ch. 100, § 3; July 1.