17-1737b. Same; transfer when association extinct, determination.
17-1737b
17-1737b. Same; transfer when association extinct, determination.
Any Swedish evangelical mission association 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 to be so 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 said midwest regional conference of the evangelical covenant church
of America, a corporation.
History: L. 1976, ch. 292, § 2; July 1.