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.)