Vermont § 942 - Transferred property held in trust Any Universalist church of this State affiliated with the Vermont and Quebec Universalist

§ 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.)