Title XXIX, Religious Societies

The trustees, deacons, church wardens or other similar officers of churches or religious societies, if citizens of the United States, shall be deemed bodies corporate for the purpose of taking and holding in succession grants and donations, whether of real or personal estate, mad…

No conveyance of the lands of a church shall be effectual to pass the same without the consent of the church, or a committee of the church appointed for that purpose.

No conveyance made by a minister of lands held by him or her in succession shall be valid any longer than he or she shall continue to be such minister unless the conveyance shall be made with the consent of the parish or religious society of which he or she is minister.

The several churches are authorized to choose committees for the purpose of settling the accounts of the trustees, deacons, and other church officers and, if necessary, to commence and prosecute a suit in the name of the church against the trustees, deacons, or other officers rel…

If ownership of a meetinghouse is uncertain, the superior court, upon petition of any party interested therein, after due notice and a hearing of all parties in interest who desire to be heard, may order it to be sold and appoint a receiver for the purpose, and may make such furt…

Any religious society may, by vote of 2/3 of the qualified members present and voting at a meeting legally called for that purpose, dissolve its corporate existence.

RSA 308:7-9 shall not apply to any property the vesting of which, in case of the extinction of the church or religious society, is or shall be provided for in any other manner than prescribed in this chapter.

The dissolution of a religious society shall not be effective until such society shall have conveyed and transferred all its property in accordance with a vote as provided in this chapter.

A religious society may, by a 2/3 vote at a meeting legally called for that purpose, vote to convey and transfer all of its right, title, and interest in and to all of its property, real and personal, including property and funds held by it in trust, to either the local church or…

The property conveyed and transferred as provided in RSA 308:3 shall be held and administered upon the same trusts, terms, and conditions as it was held by the society making the conveyance or transfer.

If money or other property shall be donated, devised, or bequeathed to such religious society, in trust, for advancing its objects after its dissolution, the church or general body to which the religious society conveyed and transferred its property prior to its dissolution becom…

Upon completion of all of the conveyances and transfers provided for in RSA 308:3, the clerk of the dissolved society shall file in the office of the secretary of state a certificate setting forth the vote to dissolve and the fact that the conveyances and transfers have been made…

Any church or religious society in this state which has ceased or failed to maintain worship or services for a period of 2 consecutive years, or whose membership or financial strength is so diminished as to render it impossible or impracticable for such church or society to maint…

When in the judgment of the state body of any denomination, or, in case there is no state body, of the superior body of such denomination, any church or religious society affiliated with such denomination shall have become extinct under the definition of RSA 308:7, such body may …

If, upon hearing, the court shall find that the allegations of the bill in equity filed pursuant to RSA 308:8 are true, a decree may be entered in conformity with the prayer of the bill, or with such modifications as justice requires, and upon such terms as to the trusts and cond…