Sec. 33-278a. Name changes authorized.
               	 		
      Sec. 33-278a. Name changes authorized. All religious corporations or churches 
authorized, prior to July 1, 1962, to use or be known by a name or names including 
the words "American Evangelical Lutheran Church" or "The Augustana Evangelical 
Lutheran Church" or "The Suomi Synod" or "The Finnish Evangelical-Lutheran Church 
of America" or "The United Lutheran Church in America" and all societies directly 
connected therewith, are authorized to change their names to "Lutheran Church in 
America"; and all gifts, bequests and devises to, contracts with, conveyances to or by, 
or other acts affecting any such religious corporation or church by either the name used 
by it or by which it was known before this change shall be valid; and nothing contained 
herein shall be deemed to limit, change, affect or alter any other existing right, power, 
property, obligation, liability or duty of any such religious corporation or church.
      (1963, P.A. 89.)