The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
003
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BAPTIST CHURCH
(Cite as: 27 V.S.A. § 782)
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§ 782. When property vests; how held
A Baptist church of this State, affiliated with the Vermont Baptist State Convention
aforesaid, which has ceased or failed to maintain religious worship or services, or
to use the property for religious worship or services, for two consecutive years immediately
prior thereto, or whose membership has so diminished in numbers or in financial strength
as to render it impossible or impracticable for the church to maintain religious worship
or services, or to protect its property from exposure to waste and dilapidation, or
to fulfill the purpose for which it was incorporated, may be declared extinct or dissolved,
by an order of the Superior Court. The property of the church, or property which may
be held in trust for the church, may be transferred to and the title and possession
vested in the Vermont Baptist State Convention. The avails of the property so transferred
shall be held in trust and added to the permanent fund of the convention and the income
employed for its usual work until a local Baptist church is again organized in the
same neighborhood, when the income shall be used to aid the local church as needed. (Amended 1973, No. 193 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 9, 1974; 2023, No. 6, § 345, eff. July 1, 2023.)