Michigan Compiled Laws § 458.251 Protestant Episcopal Church; Incorporation, Procedure; Body Corporate.


458.251 Protestant Episcopal church; incorporation, procedure; body corporate.

Sec. 1.

It shall be lawful for any 6 or more persons, professing attachment to the Protestant Episcopal church, to execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, 1 or more duplicate articles of agreement, in writing, whereby they shall agree to organize a church according to the usages of the Protestant Episcopal church, by the name and style set forth in such articles; and upon the execution and acknowledgment and filing thereof, as herein provided, such church shall become a body politic and corporate, by the name set forth in said articles, in accordance with the constitution, canons, doctrine, discipline and worship of the Protestant Episcopal church.


History: 1899, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Apr. 18, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 10928 ;-- CL 1929, 10936 ;-- CL 1948, 458.251


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