§ 460. Application. 1. This article applies to any unincorporated church affiliated with the Hindu faith, and to any heretofore incorporated church or body, so affiliated, which desires to reincorporate pursuant to this article. Independent churches may incorporate or reincorporate under this article in the manner provided in sections four hundred sixty-one and four hundred […]
§ 461. Application for incorporation. Any unincorporated church or any heretofore incorporated church wishing to incorporate under this article shall execute, acknowledge and file a certificate of incorporation as hereinafter provided.
§ 462. Qualification of voters. The following parties and no others shall be qualified voters for all purposes under this article: all persons eighteen years of age or over who are members in good and regular standing of the church or body by admission into membership therewith, in accordance with the standards for membership in […]
§ 463. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated church shall be given as follows: 1. 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 of worship at a specified […]
§ 464. Meeting for incorporation. 1. At the meeting for incorporation held in pursuance of such notice, only qualified voters shall be eligible to vote. 2. The presence of one-third of the qualified voters or six qualified voters, whichever number is higher, shall be necessary to constitute a quorum of such meeting. The action of […]
§ 465. Church governance. 1. A church incorporated under this section shall provide in its certificate of incorporation or by-laws for trustees to be elected or appointed at large, or by virtue of their office. There shall be a minimum of three trustees. To the extent practicable, terms of office shall be for three years […]
§ 466. Certificate of incorporation. 1. If at the meeting for incorporation it shall be decided that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding officer of the meeting and two others shall execute and acknowledge a certificate of incorporation, in which shall be stated the name or title by which such body shall be […]
§ 467. Reincorporation of present incorporated churches. 1. Any church heretofore incorporated may, subject to restrictions and limitations of existing laws, reincorporate under the provisions of this article, by filing in the county clerk’s office in the county in which its principal place of worship is located, a certificate, signed and acknowledged by all the […]
§ 468. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings. 1. The by-laws shall make provisions for an annual corporate meeting and for giving appropriate notice to each voting member of the date and place of each such meeting. 2. Notices of any special meeting shall state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is […]
§ 469. Corporate meetings. 1. Each church shall determine the requirements for a quorum in their by-laws that shall not exceed fifty percent of the members. 2. The action of the meeting upon any matter or question shall be decided in a manner provided by the by-laws. 3. The presiding officer of any meeting shall […]
