In Re Baptist Fellowship of Randolph, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the terms “donation” and “contribution” “connote the act of giving; a person cannot be required to give a donation in exchange for some consideration since by its very definition a gift is a voluntary transfer without consideration.”
• finding a commercial purpose where, even though “none of the Church’s parishioners were required to make a payment in exchange for using the Church's facilities,” the Church would not be able to provide facilities and services without donations
• validity of agency's rules and regulations will be upheld if they are reasonably related to purposes of enabling legislation
• validity of agency’s rules and regulations will be upheld if they are reasonably related to purposes of enabling legislation
• in con- eluding that construction of a church building qualified as “development,” Court holds that “Act 250 speaks to land use and not to the particular institutional activity associated with that land use”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).