2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1. District Property Ownership

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1. Ownership

4830. Unincorporated District. Except when local laws shall otherwise require, all grants, conveyances, devises, gifts, transfers, and assignments, now owned or hereafter made, of any property, real, personal or mixed, to or for any unincorporated district or any organization, board or similar body connected thereto and for any local property held by such a district (2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4660; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4680), shall be held by and/or conveyed to its duly elected board of trustees (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:1360–1365; 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4855), and to their successors in office and to their assigns, as the board of trustees, of said district, in trust for the benefit and use of the members and ministers of The Wesleyan Church and subject to its Discipline, regulations and appointments, as from time to time legislated and declared and shall contain the trust clause as set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4610 (cf. 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4590–4630). (The regulations for an incorporated district are set forth in 2016 Wesleyan Discipline:4100–4150.)