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Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries

Passed

P HB183

Religious and charitable matters; quantity of real property trustees may hold. Authorizes trustees of a church to take and hold in any city or town not more than 50 acres of land at any one time, provided such acreage is to be devoted exclusively, and is subsequently so devoted, to (i) a church building, chapel, cemetery; (ii) offices exclusively used for administrative purposes of the church; (iii) a Sunday school or parochial school building or playgrounds thereof; (iv) parking lots for the convenience of those attending any of the foregoing; (v) administrative offices located on such church property leased by the church to a nonprofit hospital; or (vi) a church manse, parsonage or rectory. The bill also provides for the Office of the Attorney General to intervene on behalf of any city, town or county to enforce the statutory provisions limiting the real and personal property that churches may own.
Patron - Parrish

P HB739

Religious and charitable matters; quantity of land benevolent and other associations may hold. Provides that groups organized for rural community civic purposes or improvement of farm life or operations of like purposes and not for profit (i.e., Ruritan Clubs) may hold no more than 35 acres of land. The bill contains a savings clause for previously acquired land under certain circumstances.
Patron - Barlow

P HB1350

R. E. Lee Camp; Pelham Chapel. Provides that the provisions relating to the temporary transfer of use of property between state agencies and institutions shall not apply to the Pelham Chapel. The bill also provides that such property may be leased for increments of five years and that the lease shall only be revoked or terminated if the lessee willfully fails to abide by the terms of the lease.
Patron - Reid

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