                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROPERTY OF UNINCORPORATED CHURCH HELD BY CORPORATION (§ 57-16.1)

Whenever the laws, 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 laws, rules, or
ecclesiastic polity of the church or body, and not prohibited by the law of the
Commonwealth and (ii) hold, improve, mortgage, sell, and convey the same in
accordance with such law, rules, and ecclesiastic polity, and in accordance with
the law of the Commonwealth.

HISTORY: 2005, cc. 772, 928.