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2012 Statute



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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.



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