North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 61 Religious Societies

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 61-1.   Trustees may be appointed and removed
  (a) The conference, synod, convention or other ecclesiastical body representing any church or religious denomination within the State, as also the religious societies and...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 61-2.   Trustees may hold property
  The trustees and their successors have power to receive donations, and to purchase, take and hold property, real and personal, in trust for such...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 61-3.   Title to lands vested in trustees, or in societies
  All glebes, lands and tenements, heretofore purchased, given, or devised for the support of any particular ministry, or mode of worship, and all churches...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 61-4.   Trustees may convey property
  The trustees of any religious body may mortgage or sell and convey in fee simple any land owned by such body, when directed so...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 61-5.   Authority of bishops, ministers, etc., to acquire, hold and transfer property; prior transfers validated
  Whenever the laws, rules, or ecclesiastic polity of any church or religious sect, society or denomination, commits to its duly elected or appointed bishop,...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 61-6.   House on vacant land vests title
  All houses and edifices erected for public religious worship on vacant lands, or on lands of the State not for other purposes intended or...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 61-7.   Governing body of assembly authorized to adopt traffic regulations
  (a) The governing body of any religious organization or assembly may by appropriate resolution establish rules and regulations with respect to the use of...

Last modified: March 23, 2014