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2009 Connecticut Code
Title 33 Corporations
Chapter 598 Religious Corporations And Societies
Sec. 33-277. Election and powers of trustees.
Sec. 33-277. Election and powers of trustees. The trustees of each Augustana
Evangelical Lutheran congregation shall be elected by the ballot of such electors as are
by the rules and regulations of such congregations competent to vote for trustees, on
such day in each year as such rules and regulations prescribe and upon the notice required
by the rules of the congregation, and shall be responsible to such congregations in the
manner and to the extent required by such rules. Such trustees shall continue in office
until others are elected to fill their respective places. They shall have power to convey
the real estate held by them only when authorized by the vote of the congregation for
whose benefit it is held, at a meeting warned for that purpose, according to the rules of
the congregation; and such congregations are authorized to give the care of all their
property to their trustees.(1949 Rev., S. 5386; 1951, 1953, S. 2603d.)
Nature of German Evangelical Lutheran Church; change of synod does not affect trust for church; government by "congregation as a whole"; injunction to prevent new pastor from using church. 78 C. 343.
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