17-1754. Same; transfer when church extinct; determination.
17-1754
17-1754. Same; transfer when church extinct; determination.
Any Free Methodist Church of North America in this state: (a)
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 the churches in this state for a period of two consecutive
years immediately prior thereto; or
(b) 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: (1) Maintain religious worship or services, or to maintain its organization;
(2) protect its property from exposure, waste and dilapidation; or
(3) 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 Great Plains Annual
Conference of the Free Methodist Church of North America, a corporation.
History: L. 1984, ch. 84, § 2; April 5.