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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>72450</law_id><section_number>57-16.1</section_number><catch_line>Property of unincorporated church held by corporation</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>57-10</reference><reference>57-15</reference><reference>57-27.1:1</reference><reference>57-7.1</reference><reference>58.1-3606</reference><reference>58.1-3617</reference><reference>58.1-811</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="57">Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Church Property; Benevolent Associations and Objects</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="2">Property Held for Religious Purposes</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever the <span class="dictionary">laws</span>, rules, or ecclesiastic polity of an unincorporated church or religious body provide for it to create a corporation to hold, administer, and manage its real and personal property, such corporation shall have the power to (i) acquire by deed, devise, gift, purchase, or otherwise, any real or personal property for any purpose authorized and permitted by the <span class="dictionary">laws</span>, rules, or ecclesiastic polity of the church or body, and not prohibited by the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the Commonwealth and (ii) hold, improve, mortgage, sell, and convey the same in accordance with such <span class="dictionary">law</span>, rules, and ecclesiastic polity, and in accordance with the <span class="dictionary">law</span> of the Commonwealth.</p></section></text><history>2005, cc. 772, 928.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
