Section 308:10 – Saving Clause.
308:10 Saving Clause. – RSA 308:7-9 shall not apply to any property the vesting of which, in case of the extinction of the church or religious society, is or shall be provided for in any other manner than prescribed in this chapter. Source. 1931, 9:1. RL 283:10.
Section 308:4 – Subsequent Use.
308:4 Subsequent Use. – The property conveyed and transferred as provided in RSA 308:3 shall be held and administered upon the same trusts, terms, and conditions as it was held by the society making the conveyance or transfer. Source. 1917, 42:3. PL 234:4. RL 283:4.
Section 308:5 – Donations After Dissolution.
308:5 Donations After Dissolution. – If money or other property shall be donated, devised, or bequeathed to such religious society, in trust, for advancing its objects after its dissolution, the church or general body to which the religious society conveyed and transferred its property prior to its dissolution becoming effective shall be entitled to […]
Section 308:6 – Certificate.
308:6 Certificate. – Upon completion of all of the conveyances and transfers provided for in RSA 308:3, the clerk of the dissolved society shall file in the office of the secretary of state a certificate setting forth the vote to dissolve and the fact that the conveyances and transfers have been made, to what […]
Section 308:7 – Definition.
308:7 Definition. – Any church or religious society in this state which has ceased or failed to maintain worship or services for a period of 2 consecutive years, or whose membership or financial strength is so diminished as to render it impossible or impracticable for such church or society to maintain religious worship or […]
Section 308:8 – Procedure; Notice.
308:8 Procedure; Notice. – When in the judgment of the state body of any denomination, or, in case there is no state body, of the superior body of such denomination, any church or religious society affiliated with such denomination shall have become extinct under the definition of RSA 308:7, such body may file, in […]
Section 308:9 – Decree.
308:9 Decree. – If, upon hearing, the court shall find that the allegations of the bill in equity filed pursuant to RSA 308:8 are true, a decree may be entered in conformity with the prayer of the bill, or with such modifications as justice requires, and upon such terms as to the trusts and […]
Section 306:10 – Repealed by 2018, 240:6, V, eff. Aug. 11, 2018.
306:10 Repealed by 2018, 240:6, V, eff. Aug. 11, 2018. –
Section 306:11 – Quakers.
306:11 Quakers. – The standing financial committee of each monthly meeting of the people called Friends or Quakers, and each monthly meeting thereof, shall be a body corporate to take and hold in succession grants and donations of real or personal estate made to the use of such meeting or to the use of […]
Section 306:12 – Defective Proceedings.
306:12 Defective Proceedings. – No religious society or corporation shall be dissolved or extinguished, nor shall its right or title to any property acquired by purchase, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise be in any way affected by the neglect or omission of the society or corporation to hold its annual meeting or to choose […]