Section 458.107 - Trustees; election in certain case; dissolution, convention legal successor. - Michigan Statutes

BAPTIST CHURCHES (EXCERPT)
Act 54 of 1899

458.107 Trustees; election in certain case; dissolution, convention legal successor.

Sec. 7.

If it shall happen that any church organized under the provisions of this act shall, from any cause, be found at any time without trustees, such church shall not for that cause lose its corporate existence, but such church may at any time proceed to elect trustees, as provided in this act: Provided, That whenever any corporation organized under the provisions of this act shall be dissolved by the death of all its members, or by the loss of so many of them that it is thereby rendered unable to do any corporate act or to restore itself by proceeding to elect trustees, as provided in this act, the Baptist convention of the state of Michigan, a corporation organized and existing under an act of the legislature of the state of Michigan, entitled “An act to incorporate the Baptist convention of the state of Michigan,” approved February sixteenth, A.D. 1842, and the statutes amendatory thereto, shall be held and deemed to be the legal successor of such corporation and shall succeed to, and be vested with, all property rights which were in such corporation at the time it was dissolved.

History: 1899, Act 54, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 10948 ;-- CL 1929, 10907 ;-- CL 1948, 458.107