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, orto 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 consecutiveyears immediately prior thereto; or

      (b)   whose members have so diminished in numbers or in financial strengthas to render it impossible or impracticable for any such church or societyto: (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 districtcourt of the county in which such church or society has been theretoforesituated to be so declared extinct and dissolved, and thereupon all theproperty of every kind of such church or society or property which may beheld in trust for such church or society shall be transferred to, and thetitle and possession thereof vested absolutely in the Great Plains AnnualConference of the Free Methodist Church of North America, a corporation.

      History:   L. 1984, ch. 84, § 2; April 5.