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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 721
November 27, 2023 - Introduced by Representative OLDENBURG, cosponsored by
Senator BALLWEG. Referred to Committee on Colleges and Universities.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to amend 187.11 of the statutes; relating to: specifying Crossroads
College as the entity in which the Church of Christ's property vests if the
Church of Christ becomes defunct or is dissolved.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill updates an entity name in statutory provisions related to the
incorporation of religious organizations.
Current law provides a process for the members of a church or society of any
religious sect or denomination to organize a corporation for religious, charitable, or
educational purposes, and this corporation has the powers and privileges of a
nonstock (nonprofit) corporation. The corporation may purchase and hold real
property and personal property, and its secular business and temporal affairs are
managed by a board of trustees selected as provided in the bylaws.
Current law also specifies that if the Church of Christ accepts the Wisconsin
Christian Missionary Association as its missionary organization and the Church of
Christ becomes defunct or is dissolved, the Church of Christ's property vests in the
Wisconsin Christian Missionary Association. However, if within three years from
the date the Church of Christ becomes defunct or is dissolved it is reincorporated, its
property at the time of dissolution vests in the new corporation.
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ASSEMBLY BILL 721
The bill replaces the Wisconsin Christian Missionary Association with
Crossroads College, a Minnesota nonprofit corporation, or its successor, as the entity
in which the Church of Christ's property vests in the circumstances described above.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 187.11 of the statutes is amended to read:
187.11 Property of Church of Christ or Christian Church. Whenever any
local religious society of the denomination known as the Church of Christ or the
Christian Church, which that accepts the Wisconsin Christian Missionary
Association Crossroads College, or any predecessor or successor organization of
Crossroads College, as its missionary organization becomes defunct or is dissolved,
the property thereof shall vest in the Wisconsin Christian Missionary Association,
the state institution of said denomination Crossroads College, or any successor
organization of Crossroads College, and if within 3 years from the date when such
local society becomes defunct or is dissolved it is reincorporated in the manner
prescribed in s. 187.01, the said property so belonging to such defunct or dissolved
local corporation at the time of its dissolution shall vest in such new corporation. Any
local religious society shall be deemed defunct within the meaning of this section
when it shall have ceased to maintain at least one regular service per month for a
period of 2 years. Section 187.03 shall not apply to or affect religious societies of the
denomination known as the Church of Christ or the Christian Church.
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