17-1736. Same; transfer when church extinct; determination.
17-1736
17-1736. Same; transfer when church extinct; determination.
Any Church of the Nazarene situated within the jurisdiction of the
District Advisory Board of the Church of the Nazarene, Kansas District, in
this state which, (a) 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, (b) or
whose members have so diminished in numbers or in financial strength as to
render it impossible or impracticable for any such church or society to
maintain 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 or
incorporated, shall be deemed and taken to be extinct and may by an order
of the district court of the county in which such church or society has
been theretofore situated be declared extinct and dissolved, and thereupon
all the property of every kind of such church or society or property which
may be held in trust for such church or society shall be transferred to,
and the title and possession thereof vested absolutely in the District
Advisory Board of the Church of the Nazarene, Kansas District.
History: L. 1971, ch. 74, § 2; July 1.