ENGROSSED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

Senate Bill No. 162

(By Senators Schoonover, Love and Ross)

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[Originating in the Committee on the Judiciary;

reported January 23, 1998.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section eight, article one, chapter thirty-five of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to increasing the amount of real estate that an individual church, parish, congregation or branch of any religious sect, society or denomination within this state may hold within a municipality.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section eight, article one, chapter thirty-five of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS.

§35-1-8. Quantity of real estate trustee may take and hold.
The trustee or trustees of any individual church, parish, congregation or branch of any religious sect, society or denomination within this state may take and hold at any one time for each church, parish or congregation not to exceed ten no more than fifteen acres of land in any incorporated city, town or village, and not to exceed no more than sixty acres out of such city, town or village.