The Vermont Statutes Online

Title 27 : Property

Chapter 007 : Property Held for Religious, Fraternal, or Charitable Purposes

Subchapter 007 : Universalist Church

• § 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.)