17-1757. Same; transfer when church extinct; determination.
17-1757
17-1757. Same; transfer when church extinct; determination.
Any Assembly of God Church or religious organization 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 organization 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 organization
has been theretofore situated to be so declared extinct and dissolved, and thereupon
all the property of every kind of such church or organization or property which
may be held in trust for such church or organization shall be transferred to,
and the title and possession thereof vested absolutely in the Kansas
District Council Assemblies of God, Inc., a corporation.
History: L. 1985, ch. 85, § 2; April 11.