{"id":8014,"date":"2020-07-05T15:53:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T19:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8014"},"modified":"2020-07-05T17:16:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T21:16:19","slug":"cy-pres-not-applied-to-merger-of-fire-fighting-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8014","title":{"rendered":"Cy Pres Not Applied to Merger of Fire Fighting Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The merger of two non-profit corporations holding charitable funds, one of which had been decertified as a fire fighting organization by its municipality, did not require the application of the <em>cy pres<\/em> doctrine when the decertified organization had broad charitable purposes that would be continued by the surviving corporation.   <em>In Re: Merger of Universal Volunteer Fire Department into Point Breeze Volunteer Fire Association<\/em>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Commonwealth\/out\/306CD19_7-1-20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1060 C.D. 2019<\/a> (Pa. Cmwlth. 7\/1\/2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The merger of two non-profit corporations holding charitable funds, one of which had been decertified as a fire fighting organization by its municipality, did not require the application of the cy pres doctrine when the decertified organization had broad charitable &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[674,277],"class_list":["post-8014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-charitable-organizations","tag-cy-pres","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8015,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions\/8015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}