Article 17.--RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
17-1726.Organization of nonprofit corporation to receive, manage
and dispose of property for certain churches, church organizations or
religious societies; membership; bylaws; authority.
The governing body or ecclesiastical head of any unincorporated church,
church organization, or religious society having, under the laws,
canons, rules, regulations, or usages of such church, organization, or
society, the authority to conduct and manage its property and temporal
affairs, may organize or cause to be organized one or more corporations
not for profit under the provisions of the general corporation code of
Kansas to receive, hold, manage, encumber, and dispose of real and
personal property used by or held for the benefit of such church, church
organization, or religious society. The members of any such corporation
shall be determined in the manner set forth in its articles of
incorporation, which articles may also set forth how such corporation
shall be governed or that its government shall be in such manner as
shall be set forth in its bylaws. No such corporation shall have
authority to conduct religious services or to make or enforce laws,
canons, rules or regulations relating to ecclesiastical or doctrinal
matters, or to perform any of the functions or exercise any of the
powers which are proper only to religious corporations.
Article 17.--RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
17-1726.Organization of nonprofit corporation to receive, manage
and dispose of property for certain churches, church organizations or
religious societies; membership; bylaws; authority.
The governing body or ecclesiastical head of any unincorporated church,
church organization, or religious society having, under the laws,
canons, rules, regulations, or usages of such church, organization, or
society, the authority to conduct and manage its property and temporal
affairs, may organize or cause to be organized one or more corporations
not for profit under the provisions of the general corporation code of
Kansas to receive, hold, manage, encumber, and dispose of real and
personal property used by or held for the benefit of such church, church
organization, or religious society. The members of any such corporation
shall be determined in the manner set forth in its articles of
incorporation, which articles may also set forth how such corporation
shall be governed or that its government shall be in such manner as
shall be set forth in its bylaws. No such corporation shall have
authority to conduct religious services or to make or enforce laws,
canons, rules or regulations relating to ecclesiastical or doctrinal
matters, or to perform any of the functions or exercise any of the
powers which are proper only to religious corporations.
Article 17.--RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
17-1726.Organization of nonprofit corporation to receive, manage
and dispose of property for certain churches, church organizations or
religious societies; membership; bylaws; authority.
The governing body or ecclesiastical head of any unincorporated church,
church organization, or religious society having, under the laws,
canons, rules, regulations, or usages of such church, organization, or
society, the authority to conduct and manage its property and temporal
affairs, may organize or cause to be organized one or more corporations
not for profit under the provisions of the general corporation code of
Kansas to receive, hold, manage, encumber, and dispose of real and
personal property used by or held for the benefit of such church, church
organization, or religious society. The members of any such corporation
shall be determined in the manner set forth in its articles of
incorporation, which articles may also set forth how such corporation
shall be governed or that its government shall be in such manner as
shall be set forth in its bylaws. No such corporation shall have
authority to conduct religious services or to make or enforce laws,
canons, rules or regulations relating to ecclesiastical or doctrinal
matters, or to perform any of the functions or exercise any of the
powers which are proper only to religious corporations.