Senate Bill No. 292
(By Senator Tomblin, Mr. President)
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[Introduced January 26, 2004; referred to the Committee on
Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §35-1-8 of the code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to increasing the quantity of real
estate that may be held by a trustee for a branch of any
religious sect.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §35-1-8 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, 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 two
hundred acres of land. in any incorporated city, town or village,
and not to exceed sixty acres out of such city, town or village
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to increase the quantity of
real estate that may be held by a branch of any religious sect.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.