Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Any religious society incorporated in this state, if the act of incorporation prescribes that its public religious services shall be conducted in any language other than English, may decide, by a vote of a majority of its adult members in good and […]
Effective: October 7, 1977 Latest Legislation: House Bill 42 – 112th General Assembly When a religious or educational corporation or society holds lands within the limits of a municipal corporation which have been used as a cemetery, and interments in such lands have been prohibited by the ordinances of such municipal corporation, the trustees, wardens, […]
Effective: October 7, 1977 Latest Legislation: House Bill 42 – 112th General Assembly When a religious or benevolent society or association owning real estate used or occupied as a burial place, the title to which real estate is vested in such society or association, or the trustees thereof, desires to transfer such real estate to […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a public burying ground is located on or near a township line and is used by the people of two or more townships for burial purposes, and the title thereto is vested in a religious or benevolent society, such society or […]
Effective: October 7, 1977 Latest Legislation: House Bill 42 – 112th General Assembly When the title to real estate is vested in trustees for the use of churches or congregations of churches, and owing to its peculiar situation or to the nature of the trust or conditions upon which it is held, such real estate […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When real estate has been purchased by or conveyed to trustees for the use of churches or congregations, as sites for meetinghouses, and such churches or congregations have erected houses of worship thereon, but no power is possessed by such trustees to […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly An ecclesiastical society incorporated under the laws of this state connected with a church of Christ located in this state may, by a three-fourths vote of its adult members present and voting at a meeting announced and held for that purpose, assign […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When two or more religious societies, churches, or associations recognizing the same ecclesiastical jurisdiction, form of faith, government, order, and discipline, and incorporated in this state, desire to be consolidated or united as a single corporation, the elders, trustees, deacons, directors, or […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When two or more religious societies, denominations, or ecclesiastical corporations in this state unanimously form a union in this state, the trustees, deacons, directors, or other proper officers of the new society, denomination, or corporation, at the request of a majority of […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Any two or more churches, congregations, or religious societies, whether incorporated or unincorporated, which are self-governing organizations and situated in the same township or municipal corporation, may unite their memberships and properties and continue their identity and common usages or polity in […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly An association incorporated for the purpose of receiving and holding donations, bequests, and funds derived from other sources, and disbursing the interest and income arising therefrom as provided in this section, shall hold all such principal sums as a permanent fund. The […]
Effective: October 4, 1996 Latest Legislation: House Bill 495 – 121st General Assembly When a presbytery, synod, conference, diocesan convention, or other representative body of a religious denomination in this state, or an assembly, synod, conference, convention, or other general ecclesiastical body of a religious denomination in the United States, desires to create a board […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Real estate held by or in trust for a religious society or congregation, as a place of worship or otherwise, is liable for and by civil action may be subjected to the payment of a judgment recovered against the trustees or a […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a parish, congregation, or society becomes extinct by reason of the death or dispersion of its members, the court of common pleas of the county in which any real property of such extinct parish, congregation, or society is situated may, upon […]
Effective: October 4, 1996 Latest Legislation: House Bill 495 – 121st General Assembly When a conference, presbytery, assembly, association, or other general ecclesiastical body held in the United States, in conformity with the regulations prescribed by it, elects any number of persons, not fewer than three, as trustees or directors of a printing and publishing […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Lands and tenements, not exceeding twenty acres, that are conveyed by devise, purchase, or otherwise to trustees in trust for the use of a religious society for a meetinghouse, for a burying ground, or for a residence for their preacher, shall descend, […]
Effective: February 21, 1967 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 107th General Assembly Property conveyed in trust for the use of a religious society, church, or association, whether incorporated or not, shall be held by the trustees and their successors, appointed as provided in the instrument creating the trust, or in case no provision for […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a diocesan convention or other representative body of any religious denomination in this state desires the incorporation of a cathedral or other central or general religious society or church of its denomination, having, in addition to local religious, educational, or charitable […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Any representative body creating a corporation under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code may provide a constitution, not inconsistent with the statement provided for in such section, or with the law of this state, for the government of such corporation, and may […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Members of the chapter or trustees of corporations organized under sections 1715.18 and 1715.19 of the Revised Code, if chosen to take charge of any endowment fund, may invest, manage, and dispose of such fund in accordance with the purpose for which […]
