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Section 450.159 - Church trustee corporations; trustees, election, number; certification of election.

MICHIGAN GENERAL CORPORATION ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 327 of 1931

450.159 Church trustee corporations; trustees, election, number; certification of election.

Sec. 159.

Church trustee corporations; election of trustees. When there is organized within this state any presbytery, diocesan convention, diocese, synod, conference, district or other organization, being an association of congregations or societies, or a quarterly conference of a station, mission, class, congregation, circuit or other organization of a religious denomination, which shall desire to possess corporate powers in order to effectuate the purposes of such organization or to create a corporate board of trustees for any endowment or other property of the denomination represented by such body, such diocese, presbytery, diocesan convention, synod, conference, board of district stewards, or a quarterly conference thereof, may, at a meeting thereof held and conducted according to the rules and regulations of such organization, association or quarterly conference, elect trustees in number not more than 9 nor less than 3, and also designate the corporate name by which such trustees and their successors in office shall be known. It shall be the duty of the officer presiding over such election to give to such trustees a certificate of their election under his hand and seal, specifying the name by which such trustees and their successors shall thereafter be known. They and their successors shall hold their offices for the term specified in such certificate of election, or until the organization or association first making such election elects others to succeed them. Such trustees, upon receiving certificates of their election, shall file articles in the manner provided in section 5 of this act and shall be subject to the provisions of this act relating to trustee corporations and are hereinafter called church trustee corporations. Such corporations shall be governed by the provisions of this act relating to trustee corporations except as specifically otherwise provided.


History: 1931, Act 327, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 450.159
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 14 of Ch. I of Part IV of Act 84 of 1921, being CL 1929, ยง 10090.

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