17-1734. Same; procedure for transfer of property.
17-1734
17-1734. Same; procedure for transfer of property.
An application for such an order and disposition of property may be made
by any member or officer of the Church of the Brethren, District of
Kansas, or by proper officials of said church 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.
17-1733, 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 Church of the Brethren, District of Kansas; it being the
intent and purpose of this act to preserve all property owned by or held
in trust for any such extinct church or society for religious uses.
History: L. 1968, ch. 345, § 3; July 1.