The conference, synod, presbytery, convention, association, consultors, official board, or other ecclesiastical body or individual representing any church, religious sect, society, or denomination within this state, as also any individual church, parish, congregation or branch, when holding any property separately from the church, denomination, society or sect as a whole, within this state, may from time to time, and whenever occasion may arise, appoint, in such manner as such ecclesiastical body or such individual church, parish, congregation or branch may deem proper, a trustee or trustees for its real and personal property. The body appointing may remove such trustee or trustees, or any of them, and fill all vacancies caused by death, removal or otherwise.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 35. Property of Religious, Educational and Charitable Organizations
Article 1. Religious Organizations
§35-1-1. Validation of Transfers for Use or Benefit of Religious Organizations
§35-1-2. Equitable Title in Contiguous Congregations
§35-1-3. Property Not to Be Taken From a Religious Organization
§35-1-5. Trustees for Real and Personal Property -- How Appointed and Removed
§35-1-6. Same -- Recording Order of Appointment; Recording Fee
§35-1-7. Same -- May Take and Hold Property
§35-1-8. Quantity of Real Estate Trustee May Take and Hold
§35-1-9. Power of Trustee to Sell, Convey and Encumber Property
§35-1-10. Notice of Conveyance or Lien; Proof Thereof
§35-1-11. Proceedings to Prevent Conveyances or Creation of Liens
§35-1-12. Disposition of Property of Extinct or Dissolved Religious Organization