1-32-310. Sale of property given or purchased for religious use; generally.
When any real estate except burial grounds of a cemetery has been donated, bequeathed or otherwise entrusted to or purchased by any person or trustee for any public religious use but not to or for use of any particular religious denomination, or when the same has been donated, bequeathed, entrusted to or purchased by a particular religious denomination and has been abandoned for such use, the district court of the county in which the real estate is located, upon good cause shown upon the petition of any citizen of the vicinity, may make an order for the sale of the property whether the same has been built upon or otherwise improved or not, and may make the order as to costs and disposition of the proceeds of the sale of the religious or other public use as shall be just, proper and equitable. The purchaser shall be invested with as full and complete a title thereto as the character of the original grant for the religious use will allow.