17-1716g. Same; which churches deemed extinct; court order.
17-1716g
17-1716g. Same; which churches deemed extinct;
court order.
Any Church of Christ (not using instrumental music) in this state which
has ceased or failed to maintain religious worship or services, or to use
its property for religious worship or services according to the tenets,
usages and customs of said churches in this state for a period of two (2)
consecutive years immediately prior thereto, or whose members have so
diminished in numbers or in financial strength as to render it impossible
or impracticable for any such church to maintain religious worship or
services, or to maintain its organization, or to protect its property from
exposure, waste and dilapidation, or to fulfill the purposes for which it
was organized, created or incorporated, shall be deemed and taken to be
extinct and may by order of the district court of the county in which such
church has been theretofore situated be so declared extinct and dissolved;
and thereupon all the property of every kind of such church or property
which may be held in trust for such church shall be transferred to, and the
title and possession thereof by order of the court be vested in the nearest
active Church of Christ (not using instrumental music) (geographically)
located within the state of Kansas.
History: L. 1970, ch. 86, § 5; July 1.