Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 687 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
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.
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 Wis-
consin Christian Missionary Association, the state insti-
tution 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 corpo-
ration. 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.
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.”