458.41 Wesleyan Methodist church; incorporators. Sec. 1. It shall be lawful for any number of members of the Wesleyan Methodist connection (or church), of full age, not less than 5, to organize and procure the incorporation of a Wesleyan Methodist church. History: 1905, Act 27, Imd. Eff. Mar. 22, 1905 ;– CL 1915, 11044 ;– […]
458.42 Articles of association; execution. Sec. 2. The persons desiring to organize such church shall execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, articles of association in writing, whereby they shall agree to organize a church, which shall be governed by the discipline, rules and usages of the Wesleyan Methodist connection […]
458.43 Articles; contents, form. Sec. 3. Said articles of association shall contain the following items: First, the name of said church; second, the township, village or city, and the county in which said church shall be located; third, the time for which said corporation shall be created; fourth, an agreement to worship and labor together […]
458.44 Articles of association; execution and acknowledgment; filing articles with department of commerce; members of church as body politic or corporation. Sec. 4. Said articles of association shall be executed in duplicate, and acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgment of deeds. One of such duplicate copies shall be retained by such […]
458.45 Church government; ecclesiastical polity. Sec. 5. Said church, when so organized, shall be subject in all matters of church government and ecclesiastical polity to the discipline, usages and ministerial appointments of the Wesleyan Methodist connection (or church) of America, as from time to time authorized and declared by the general conference of said connection […]
458.46 Board of trustees; election, term, vacancies; secular affairs. Sec. 6. The secular affairs of such church shall be managed by a board of trustees, consisting of not less than 3 nor more than 9 members, to be elected by ballot by said corporation from the membership of the church. The said trustees shall hold […]
458.47 Board of trustees; election in certain case; dissolution, conference legal successor; sale of property. Sec. 7. If it shall happen that any church organized under the provisions of this act shall, from any cause, be found at any time without trustees, such church shall not for that cause lose its corporate existence, but such […]
458.48 Bylaws. Sec. 8. The persons forming such corporation may adopt bylaws, and execute and acknowledge them in the same manner as the articles of association above provided for, and such bylaws shall be retained by such corporation. Such bylaws shall prescribe the qualifications of members; the manner in which persons are to become members, […]
458.49 Powers of corporation; rights of ministers. Sec. 9. Said corporation may have a seal and alter the same at pleasure; it may, in its corporate name, sue and be sued in all courts and places; it shall have power to acquire, hold, sell and convey property, both real and personal, in accordance with this […]
458.50 Alteration or amendment of articles or bylaws. Sec. 10. It shall be lawful for any church organized under the provisions of this act, by a 2/3 vote of the members of the same, who are present and voting, to alter and amend its articles of association, or its bylaws, in any manner not inconsistent […]
458.51 Sale or mortgage of real estate for re-investment or to pay debts; title, passing to annual conference. Sec. 11. When it shall become necessary for the payment of debts, or with a view to re-investment, to make a sale or mortgage of any real estate belonging to said church, the members of the church, […]
458.52 Reincorporation under act; procedure. Sec. 12. Any Wesleyan Methodist church heretofore incorporated, or the trustees of which have heretofore exercised the powers of a body corporate, may by a 2/3 vote of the members of the society, present and voting, place itself under the provisions of this act, the same as if originally incorporated […]
458.53 Construction of inconsistent acts. Sec. 13. In all proceedings or suits that may arise, or be brought in any of the courts of this state, touching, or in any way concerning churches that may be incorporated under this act, or which by vote of the members of the society thereof may have placed themselves […]
458.54 Trustees; evidence of authority. Sec. 14. It is further provided that the execution by the acting trustees of said corporation, in proper form, of any deed, mortgage, note, bond, or other obligation or contract of said corporation, shall be prima facie evidence of the proper appointment of said trustees, and that the necessary steps […]
458.55 Extension of corporate existence; filing resolution with department of commerce; effect. Sec. 15. Any corporation organized under the provisions of this act, whose corporate existence is about to expire by limitation, may extend its corporate existence from time to time for a term not exceeding 30 years, by causing to be filed with the […]
