Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1715 - Religious And Benevolent Organizations

• Section 1715.01 - Change In Language Of Church Service.
  Any religious society incorporated in this state, if the act of incorporation prescribes that its public religious services shall be conducted in any language...
• Section 1715.02 - Sale Of Cemetery Grounds No Longer Usable.
  When a religious or educational corporation or society holds lands within the limits of a municipal corporation which have been used as a cemetery,...
• Section 1715.03 - Transfer Of Cemetery Land To Cemetery Association.
  When a religious or benevolent society or association owning real estate used or occupied as a burial place, the title to which real estate...
• Section 1715.04 - Conveyance Of Burying Ground To Township.
  When a public burying ground is located on or near a township line and is used by the people of two or more townships...
• Section 1715.05 - Disposition Of Unused Real Estate.
  When the title to real estate is vested in trustees for the use of churches or congregations of churches, and owing to its peculiar...
• Section 1715.06 - Trustees Of Church Site May Convey It To Church.
  When real estate has been purchased by or conveyed to trustees for the use of churches or congregations, as sites for meetinghouses, and such...
• Section 1715.07 - Ecclesiastical Society May Transfer Property To Church.
  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...
• Section 1715.08 - Consolidation Of Churches Having Same Form Of Faith.
  When two or more religious societies, churches, or associations recognizing the same ecclesiastical jurisdiction, form of faith, government, order, and discipline, and incorporated in...
• Section 1715.09 - Transfer Of Property Of Consolidating Organizations.
  When two or more religious societies, denominations, or ecclesiastical corporations in this state unanimously form a union in this state, the trustees, deacons, directors,...
• Section 1715.10 - Consolidation Of Self-governing Churches In Same Locality.
  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...
• Section 1715.11 - Association For Holding Donations And Bequests.
  An association incorporated for the purpose of receiving and holding donations, bequests, and funds derived from other sources, and disbursing the interest and income...
• Section 1715.12 - Endowment Fund Corporations.
  When a presbytery, synod, conference, diocesan convention, or other representative body of a religious denomination in this state, or an assembly, synod, conference, convention,...
• Section 1715.13 - Real Estate Of Church Liable For Certain Judgments.
  Real estate held by or in trust for a religious society or congregation, as a place of worship or otherwise, is liable for and...
• Section 1715.14 - Sale Of Real Property Of Extinct Corporation.
  When a parish, congregation, or society becomes extinct by reason of the death or dispersion of its members, the court of common pleas of...
• Section 1715.15 - Incorporation Of Religious Printing And Publishing Houses.
  When a conference, presbytery, assembly, association, or other general ecclesiastical body held in the United States, in conformity with the regulations prescribed by it,...
• Section 1715.16 - Lands To Descend In Trust.
  Lands and tenements, not exceeding twenty acres, that are conveyed by devise, purchase, or otherwise to trustees in trust for the use of a...
• Section 1715.17 - Legal Title To Lands.
  Property conveyed in trust for the use of a religious society, church, or association, whether incorporated or not, shall be held by the trustees...
• Section 1715.18 - Incorporation Of Cathedrals Or Other Religious Societies.
  When a diocesan convention or other representative body of any religious denomination in this state desires the incorporation of a cathedral or other central...
• Section 1715.19 - Constitution.
  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...
• Section 1715.20 - Power Of Trustees.
  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...
• Section 1715.21 - Consolidation With Corporation Created By Representative Body.
  When one or more parishes or other religious societies, represented by the same diocesan convention or other representative body of any religious denomination in...
• Section 1715.22 - Consolidation In Anticipation Of Incorporation.
  If, before the creation of a corporation under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code for the purposes provided in such section, any parish or...
• Section 1715.23 - Incorporation Of Young Men's Christian Association.
  A society of men conducting religious services, performing Christian work, and co-operating for the mutual benefit of the membership shall be known as a...
• Section 1715.24 - Management And Control.
  An incorporated young men's Christian association may adopt a code of regulations for its government. The management and control of the association shall be...
• Section 1715.25 - Powers Of Young Men's Christian Association.
  An incorporated young men's Christian association may conduct such work and organize such department as its board of trustees deems necessary to attain the...
• Section 1715.26 - Dissolution Of Association.
  Subject to the contract rights of its members, an incorporated young men's Christian association may dissolve by a majority vote of the membership and...
• Section 1715.27 - State Organization.
  The young men's Christian association in this state may unite and constitute the state young men's Christian association for the supervision and conduct of...
• Section 1715.28 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 04-09-1981
• Section 1715.29 - Fiscal Trustees Of Benevolent Associations.
  A benevolent or charitable association incorporated in this state, may vest the custody, control, and management of all its endowment, capital, funds, and property...
• Section 1715.30 - Fiscal Trustees - Powers.
  Fiscal trustees appointed for a benevolent association under section 1715.29 of the Revised Code shall have the exclusive authority, in the name and behalf...
• Section 1715.31 - Provisions In Articles For Fiscal Trustees.
  A benevolent or charitable association incorporated under general or special law and coming within the purview of section 1715.29 of the Revised Code, may...
• Section 1715.32 - Consolidation Of Charitable Or Benevolent Institutions.
  When two or more charitable, benevolent, or educational organizations formed or incorporated in this state desire to be consolidated as a single corporation, or...
• Section 1715.33 - Ratification Of Consolidation Agreement.
  No agreement for the consolidation of charitable, benevolent, or educational organizations under section 1715.32 of the Revised Code shall be valid until it has...
• Section 1715.34 - Approval Of Agreement By First Meeting Of United Corporation.
  At the first meeting of a united corporation formed under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, each member of each of...
• Section 1715.35 - Constitution And Bylaws.
  A united corporation formed under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may adopt a constitution, bylaws, and rules, and may amend...
• Section 1715.36 - Succession To Rights And Obligations Of Component Organizations.
  The various organizations entering into a union under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38 of the Revised Code, shall be merged in the united body and...
• Section 1715.37 - Petition For Conveyance.
  A united corporation formed under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, at the request of a majority of its members, or...
• Section 1715.38 - Subsequent Consolidations With United Corporation.
  After the creation of a united corporation under sections 1715.32 to 1715.37, inclusive, of the Revised Code, any one or more organizations of like...
• Section 1715.39 - Sale Or Encumbrance Of Real Estate By A Religious Or Charitable Organization.
  When a charitable or religious society or association desires to sell, lease, exchange, or encumber by mortgage or otherwise any real estate owned by...
• Section 1715.40 - Conveyance Of Property To Allied Organizations.
  The board of trustees of a church organization or of a religious or charitable society or association, or such organization or religious or charitable...
• Section 1715.41 - Confirmation By Court.
  The trustees or other officers of a charitable or religious society or association who are authorized to make a sale, lease, exchange, or encumbrance...
• Section 1715.411 - Validity And Effect Of Deeds And Mortgages.
  When the trustees or other officers mentioned in sections 1715.37 to 1715.41, inclusive, of the Revised Code, have sold and conveyed by deed in...
• Section 1715.42 - Secret Benevolent Societies.
  A secret benevolent association or society incorporated in this state may accept and receive any donation or voluntary contribution; collect its assessments, which shall...
• Section 1715.43 - Real Estate Held By Lodge.
  Any unincorporated lodge or other subordinate body of any society or order, which is chartered by its grand lodge or body, may take and...
• Section 1715.51 - Uniform Management Of Institutional Funds Definitions.
  As used in sections 1715.51 to 1715.59 of the Revised Code: (A) "Charitable purpose" means any purpose the achievement of which is beneficial to...
• Section 1715.52 - Intent Of Donor - Costs - Investment Pooling - Standard Of Care.
  (A) Subject to the intent of a donor expressed in a gift instrument, an institution, in managing and investing an institutional fund, shall consider...
• Section 1715.53 - Appropriations From Net Appreciation.
  (A) Subject to the intent of a donor expressed in the gift instrument and to division (D) of this section, an institution may appropriate...
• Section 1715.54 - Delegation Of Authority.
  (A) (1) Subject to any specific limitation set forth in a gift instrument or in any other provision of law , an institution may...
• Section 1715.55 - Releasing Restriction On Use Or Investment Of Institutional Fund.
  (A) If a donor consents in a record, an institution may release or modify, in whole or in part, a restriction contained in a...
• Section 1715.56 - Determination Of Compliance With Rc 1715.51 et Seq.
  Compliance with sections 1715.51 to 1715.59 of the Revised Code shall be determined in light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time...
• Section 1715.57 - Construction Of Rc 1715.51 et Seq.
  (A) Sections 1715.51 to 1715.59 of the Revised Code shall be construed as modifying, limiting, and superseding the "Electronic Signatures in Global and National...
• Section 1715.58 - Enacting Uniform Management Of Institutional Funds Act.
  In so far as is possible on and after June 1, 2009, sections 1715.51 to 1715.59 of the Revised Code shall be applied and...
• Section 1715.59 - Sections Cited As The Uniform Management Of Institutional Funds Act.
  Sections 1715.51 to 1715.59 of the Revised Code may be cited as the uniform prudent management of institutional funds act. Effective Date: 11-26-1975; 2008...

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