Section 450.157 - Trustee corporations; hospitals; asylums; trustee instrument; apprenticing destitute or foundling children. - Michigan Statutes

MICHIGAN GENERAL CORPORATION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 327 of 1931

450.157 Trustee corporations; hospitals; asylums; trustee instrument; apprenticing destitute or foundling children.

Sec. 157.

Same; hospitals, asylums. In all cases where lands, or any other property, amounting in value to 5,000 dollars or upwards, have been or shall hereafter be given, granted, devised or bequeathed to 3 or more trustees for the purpose of founding or endowing a hospital or other charitable asylum for the care or relief of indigent or other sick or infirm or aged persons, or the care of minor orphans or crippled children or for the care and protection of unfortunate women, or any number of such purposes, such trustees may incorporate under this act as a trustee corporation. Unless restricted by the trust instrument in respect thereto such trustees may unite in such incorporation with other persons contributing to the maintenance of such hospital or asylum, and all such other persons shall become members of such corporation upon making such contribution as may be fixed and determined in the articles or by-laws of the corporation: Provided, That any 3 or more persons may incorporate for any such charitable purpose as a trustee corporation, where the hospital, home, asylum, or other institution to be founded by such corporation is to be constructed, equipped and maintained principally by donations not made under any trust deed or other instrument in writing declaring the uses and purposes to which such property shall be devoted, and every such corporation shall have authority to fix and prescribe the terms and conditions of membership therein.

The trustees of such trustee corporation, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized and empowered to indenture or apprentice to responsible persons, any destitute or foundling children now, or which may be hereafter, in charge or care of such corporation, until such children shall respectively become of lawful age, and to make such indenture in each case as binding and effective in all respects as if said trustees were the lawful parents or guardians of said children: Provided, That said trustees shall have power to withdraw such child from any person to whom he or she may be indentured, when in their opinion the interests of the child may require it.

History: 1931, Act 327, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 450.157
Compiler's Notes: The catchline following the act section number was incorporated as part of the section when the act was enacted.
Former Law: See section 10 of Ch. I of Part IV of Act 84 of 1921, being CL 1929, § 10086; and section 11 of Ch. I of Part IV of Act 84 of 1921, being CL 1929, § 10087.