Illinois Compiled Statutes 805 Business Organizations: Article -

• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 0.01
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Religious Corporation Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 35
  Any church, congregation or society formed for the purposes of religious worship, may become incorporated in the manner following: By electing or appointing, according...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 36
  The chairman or secretary of such meeting shall, as soon as may be after such meeting, make and file in the office of the...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 37
  The term of office of the trustees of any such corporation may be determined by the rules or by-laws of the congregation, church or...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 38
  A failure to elect trustees at any time shall not work a dissolution of such corporation, but the trustees last elected shall be considered...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 39
  All elections of trustees after the first, and elections to fill vacancies, may be called and conducted upon such notice and in such manner...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 40
  A trustee may be removed from office by an election, called and conducted in like manner as elections for trustees, or his office declared...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 41
  Upon the incorporation of any congregation, church or society, all real and personal property held by any person or trustees for the use of the...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 42
  Any corporation that may be formed for religious purposes under this Act, or any law of this State, for the incorporation of religious societies,...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 43
  The trustees shall have the care, custody and control of the real and personal property of the corporation, subject to the direction of the congregation,...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 44
  Any congregation, church or society, heretofore incorporated under the provisions of any law for the incorporation of religious societies, may become incorporated under the...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 45
  Any congregation, church or society, incorporated under this Act, may receive, by grant or legacy, real estate, for the purpose of holding camp meetings,...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46
  The trustees, or any other persons, designated by any such congregation, church or society incorporated under this act, shall have power to publish, print,...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46a
  It shall be lawful for any congregation, church or society, now or hereafter existing in the State of Illinois, and which is under the...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46b
  The presiding officer, or duly authorized representative of any ecclesiastical body, or diocesan, or like ecclesiastical officer having jurisdiction agreeably to the laws of...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46c
  The successor of the presiding officer of any ecclesiastical body, or of the diocesan, or like ecclesiastical officer, shall, by virtue of his office,...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46d
  A trustee may be removed from office whenever his office shall be declared vacant for a failure to act, or for immoral conduct, or...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46e
  The trustees of every such congregation, church, or society, under the patronage, control, direction, or supervision of any ecclesiastical body, or diocesan, or like ecclesiastical...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46f
  The trustees of any corporation formed for religious purposes under Sections 46a to 46h, inclusive, of this Act, may receive land in the name of...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46g
  Any ecclesiastical body, or diocesan, or like ecclesiastical officer, may elect, or nominate, or appoint, according to the usages, customs, rules, regulations, articles of association,...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46h
  The word "trustees," whenever used in this act, shall be construed to include wardens, vestrymen, or such other officers as perform the duties of...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46i
  Any congregation, church or society heretofore incorporated under the provisions of any law for the incorporation of religious societies, may become incorporated under the...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46j
  Any church, congregation, society or corporation, heretofore or hereafter formed for religious purposes or for the purpose of religious worship under any of the provisions...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 46k
  Nothing contained in sections 46a to 46k, inclusive, of this act shall be construed as limiting, restricting, or curtailing the rights or powers of...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 47
  Liability. (a) The members of a corporation organized under this Act shall not be personally liable for any debt or obligation of the corporation....
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 50
  As used in this section, the term "Eastern Orthodox Church", also known as the "Greek Orthodox Church", includes the following established and operating jurisdictions...
• Illinois Religious Corporation Act. - 805 ILCS 110, Section 51
  If the usages, customs, rules, regulations or canons of any religious organization require that any subordinate body of that organization obtain the permission of...

Last modified: February 18, 2015