Kan. Stat. § 17-1755

Current through 2024 Session Acts Chapter 111 and 2024 Special Session Acts Chapter 4
Section 17-1755 - Same; procedure for transfer of property

An application for such an order and disposition of property may be made by any member or officer of the Great Plains Annual Conference of the Free Methodist Church of North America, a corporation, or by proper officials of the church upon a verified petition setting forth the facts authorizing such order and disposition of property.

Upon the presentation of such petition to the district court the court may proceed in a summary manner, after such notice as the court may prescribe, to inquire into the merits of such application; and if upon examination by the court it shall satisfactorily appear that the making of the order and disposition of the property applied for is necessary or proper, for any of the causes mentioned in K.S.A. 17-1754, such court shall make a final order, declaring such church or society extinct and dissolving the same, and transferring any property and the title and possession thereof which may belong to such church or society, or held in trust for such church or society, and vesting the same in the Great Plains Annual Conference of the Free Methodist Church of North America, a corporation, it being the intent and purpose of this act to preserve all property owned by or held in trust for any such extinct church or society for religious uses.

K.S.A. 17-1755

L. 1984, ch. 84, § 3; April 5.