17-1733.   Same; transfer when church extinct; determination.Any German Baptist Brethren church or the German Baptist church in thisstate which (a) has ceased or failed to maintain religious worship orservices, or to use its property for religious worship or servicesaccording to the tenets, usages and customs of said churches in this statefor a period of two (2) consecutive years immediately prior thereto, (b) orwhose members have so diminished in numbers or in financial strength as torender it impossible or impracticable for any such church or society tomaintain religious worship or services, or to maintain its organization,(c) or to protect its property from exposure, waste and dilapidation, (d)or to fulfill the purposes for which it was organized, created orincorporated, shall be deemed and taken to be extinct and may by an orderof the district court of the county in which such church or society hasbeen theretofore situated to be so declared extinct and dissolved, andthereupon all the property of every kind of such church or society orproperty which may be held in trust for such church or society shall betransferred to, and the title and possession thereof vested absolutely inthe said Church of the Brethren, District of Kansas.

      History:   L. 1968, ch. 345, § 2; July 1.