16:12-21 - Management of funds; property in trust
16:12-21. Management of funds; property in trust
Such trustees shall have the management and care of any fund already existing, or which may hereafter be contributed, acquired or received, and any accumulations thereof, for the support of the episcopate of the diocese, and the appropriation of the income of the fund for that purpose, according to the direction to be from time to time given by the convention of the diocese. Such trustees may also take and hold by gift, grant, devise, bequest, or otherwise, any property, funds or securities of any kind in trust for religious, ecclesiastical, charitable or educational purposes, appertaining to or under the control of the convention or other ecclesiastical authority of the diocese, and may carry out the objects of such trust, if consistent with the constitution, canons or laws of such church.