The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
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UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
(Cite as: 27 V.S.A. § 942)
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§ 942. Transferred property held in trust
Any Universalist church of this State affiliated with the Vermont and Quebec Universalist
Unitarian Convention, which has ceased or failed to maintain religious worship or
services, or to use the property for religious worship or services, for the space
of two consecutive years immediately prior thereto, or whose membership has so diminished
in numbers or financial strength as to render it impossible or impractical 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,
by an order of the Superior Court, may be declared extinct or dissolved, and the property
of the church or property which may be held in trust for such church, be transferred
to and the title and possession vested in the Vermont and Quebec Universalist Unitarian
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 from it employed for its usual
work until a local Universalist 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, § 353, eff. July 1, 2023.)