Okla. Stat. tit. 18, § 18-563
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Title vests in successors in trust
Official statutory text
All grants or deeds from private individuals, or acts of
legislative bodies, transferring, conveying or granting real estate
in this state to any bishop, dean, rector, vestryman, deacon,
director, minister or any other officer or officers of any church or
organized religious society in trust for the use and benefit of such
society of which they are such officer or officers, which have been
or may be made, done or executed, shall vest in their successor or
successors in office, or other officer which such society may at any
time designate, all the legal or other title, to the same extent and
in all respects the same, as trustee of such trust, for the use and
benefit of such society, which such bishop, dean, rector, vestryman,
deacon, director, minister or other officer or officers, had under
such grant, deed or act; and all transfers or sales made by such
officer or officers so acquiring title by virtue of this article, by
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 18. Corporations Page 261
succession in office shall have all the validity, force and effect
that it would have had had it been made by such bishop, dean,
rector, vestryman, deacon, director, minister or other officer or
officers, while holding under and by virtue of such grant, deed or
act of such legislative body.
legislative bodies, transferring, conveying or granting real estate
in this state to any bishop, dean, rector, vestryman, deacon,
director, minister or any other officer or officers of any church or
organized religious society in trust for the use and benefit of such
society of which they are such officer or officers, which have been
or may be made, done or executed, shall vest in their successor or
successors in office, or other officer which such society may at any
time designate, all the legal or other title, to the same extent and
in all respects the same, as trustee of such trust, for the use and
benefit of such society, which such bishop, dean, rector, vestryman,
deacon, director, minister or other officer or officers, had under
such grant, deed or act; and all transfers or sales made by such
officer or officers so acquiring title by virtue of this article, by
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 18. Corporations Page 261
succession in office shall have all the validity, force and effect
that it would have had had it been made by such bishop, dean,
rector, vestryman, deacon, director, minister or other officer or
officers, while holding under and by virtue of such grant, deed or
act of such legislative body.
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