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Home » US Law » 2022 West Virginia Code » Chapter 35. Property of Religious, Educational and Charitable Organizations » Article 2. Educational, Fraternal and Charitable Organizations

§35-2-1. Validation of Conveyances, Devises, Gifts and Bequests to Trustees

Where any conveyance, dedication or devise of land, or transfer, gift or bequest of personal property, has been made or shall be made to trustees for the use of any university, college, academy, high school, seminary, or other institution of learning; or for the use of any benevolent, fraternal, patriotic, literary, temperance, or charitable society, […]

§35-2-2. Validation of Conveyances, Devises, Gifts and Bequests to Trustees — Appointment of Trustee; Designation of Beneficiaries and Objects; Administration by Chancery Court Cy Pres

No conveyance, devise, dedication, gift, grant or bequest hereafter made for any of the uses set forth in the preceding section shall fail or be declared void for insufficient designation of the beneficiaries in, or the objects of, any trust annexed to such conveyance, devise, dedication, gift, grant, or bequest, or for any failure to […]

§35-2-3. Trustees for Unincorporated Benevolent, Fraternal, etc., Organizations

Any unincorporated benevolent, fraternal, patriotic, literary, temperance, or charitable society, order, lodge or association, or any labor union, or similar association or brotherhood of craftsmen or employees, or any local branch thereof, to which, or for the use of which, any property, real or personal, is conveyed, dedicated, devised, transferred, given or bequeathed, may from […]

§35-2-4. Trustees for Educational or Charitable Institutions

The authorities of any university, college, academy, high school, seminary, or other institution of learning, or the authorities of any orphan asylum, children's home, house of refuge, hospital, or home or asylum for the aged or incurables or the afflicted in mind or body, or other benevolent or charitable institution or association, to which, or […]

§35-2-5. Record of Appointment of Trustees; Recording Fee

The trustees heretofore appointed by the circuit court of any county to hold the title to the real and personal property of any society, order, lodge, association, union or brotherhood, or of any institution of learning, or of any benevolent or charitable institution or association, in this article mentioned, and who are still occupying such […]

§35-2-6. Trustees of Certain Organizations to Be Corporations; Powers

The trustees of every institution, society, order, organization, or association in this article mentioned (except trustees for any labor union or similar association or brotherhood of craftsmen or employees), or any local branch thereof, whether named in the conveyance, dedication, devise, gift or bequest, or appointed as provided in this article, shall be a corporation […]

§35-2-7. Certain Provisions of Article One Applicable to Property of Labor Unions

Sections seven, nine, ten, eleven and twelve of article one of this chapter, relating to the property of religious organizations and the powers of the trustees and the rights of members of such organizations, shall apply to and govern labor unions, or similar associations, or brotherhoods of craftsmen or employees, or any local branches thereof, […]

§35-2-8. Quantity of Real Estate Certain Organizations May Hold

Except as may otherwise be allowed by law, the trustees of any society, order, lodge, association, union or brotherhood mentioned in this article may take and hold at any one time not exceeding two acres of land to be used as a place of meeting for such society, order, lodge, association, union or brotherhood, for […]

§35-2-9. Distribution of Income by Trust Which Is Deemed a Private Foundation; Prohibitions as to Trusts Which Are Private Foundations or Split-Interest Trusts; Definition of Terms

(a) Distribution of income by trust which is deemed a private foundation; prohibitions as to such private foundation. — Every trust, receiving a gift, grant, devise or bequest, which is deemed to be a private foundation as defined in section 509 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, unless its governing instrument expressly includes specific […]