§ 190. Application of this article. This article is not applicable to a Baptist church, a Congregational Christian church, whether or not a part of the United Church of Christ, a church of the United Church of Christ incorporated after September first, nineteen hundred seventy-one, an Independent church, a United Methodist church, a Protestant Episcopal […]
§ 191. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated church, to which this article is applicable, shall be given as follows: The notice shall be in writing, and shall state, in substance, that a meeting of such unincorporated church will be held at its usual place […]
§ 192. The meeting for incorporation. At the meeting for incorporation held in pursuance of such notice, the following persons, and no others, shall be qualified voters, to wit: All persons of full age, who are then members in good and regular standing of such church by admission into full communion or membership therewith, in […]
§ 193. The certificate of incorporation. The presiding officer of such meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat, shall execute and acknowledge a certificate of incorporation, setting forth the matters so determined at such meeting, the trustees elected thereat and the terms of office for which they were respectively elected and […]
§ 194. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings. The annual corporate meeting of every incorporated church to which this article is applicable, shall be held at the time and place fixed by or in pursuance of law therefor, if such time and place be so fixed, and otherwise, at a time and place to […]
§ 195. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualification of voters thereat. At a corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable the following persons, and no others, shall be qualified voters, to wit: All persons who are then members in good and regular standing of such church by admission into […]
§ 196. Changing date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable, may change the date of its annual meeting thereafter. If such date shall next thereafter occur less than six months after the annual meeting at which such change is made, the next annual […]
§ 197. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated church to which this article is applicable, may, at an annual corporate meeting, change the number of its trustees to three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four, or classify them so that the terms of one-third expire each year. No such change shall affect the […]
§ 198. Meetings of trustees. Two of the trustees of an incorporated church, to which this article is applicable, may call a meeting of such trustees, by giving at least twenty-four hours’ notice thereof personally or by mail to the other trustees. A majority of the trustees lawfully convened shall constitute a quorum for the […]
§ 199. Vacancies among trustees. If any trustee of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable, declines to act, resigns or dies, or having been a member of such church, ceases to be such member, or not having been a member of such church, ceases to be a qualified voter at a corporate […]
§ 200. Control of trustees by corporate meetings; salaries of ministers. A corporate meeting of an incorporated church, whose trustees are elective as such, may give directions, not inconsistent with law, as to the manner in which any of the temporal affairs of the church shall be administered by the trustees thereof; and such directions […]
§ 201-a Incorporation of the Religious Society of Friends. An unincorporated meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in this state may be incorporated by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate of incorporation, stating the corporate name by which such meeting shall be known, and the county, town, city or village where its principal place […]
§ 202. Trusts for Shakers and Friends. All deeds or declarations of trust of real or personal property, executed and delivered before January first, eighteen hundred and thirty, or since May fifth, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, to any person in trust for any United Society of Shakers, or heretofore executed and delivered to any person […]
§ 203. Conveyance or incumbrance of trust property of Friends. The trustee or trustees, or survivor of any trustees, of any meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, appointed pursuant to the last preceding section, may sell, convey and grant, mortgage, or demise any or all of the trust property described in said trust deed […]
§ 204-b. Change of name of churches and affiliated and subsidiary organizations of the church of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Church. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of any general, special or local law, the two denominations known as the church of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical […]
§ 205. Presiding officer. Nothing contained in this article shall prevent the qualified voters at any meeting held pursuant to this article or in this article described, from choosing a person to preside at any such meeting, other than the person or officer designated in this article to preside thereat, and when such other person […]
§ 206. Termination and dissolution of churches of the General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Inc. whose churches are individually known as “Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)” or “Church of Christ (Disciples of Christ)” and affiliated religious societies and the disposition of the real and personal property of such churches and/or affiliated […]
§ 207. The number of trustees of Jewish congregations and voting by proxy at certain meetings thereof. A congregation of the Jewish faith may at any general or special corporate meeting thereof change the number of its trustees to not more than seventy-two and classify them so that the terms of one-third shall expire each […]
§ 208. Consolidation. Any two or more religious corporations of the Jewish faith, incorporated under or by general or special laws, may enter into an agreement for the consolidation or merger of such corporations, setting forth the terms and conditions of consolidation, the name of the proposed or surviving corporation, the number of its trustees, […]
§ 209. Effect of consolidation. The consolidated or merged corporation shall possess all the powers of the constituent corporations and shall have the power and be subject to the duties and obligations of a congregation of the Jewish faith formed for like purposes under the religious corporations law. All the rights, privileges and interests of […]
