Michigan Compiled Laws Act 27 Of 1905 Wesleyan Methodist Churches (458.41 - 458.55)

• Section 458.41 Wesleyan Methodist Church; Incorporators.
  It shall be lawful for any number of members of the Wesleyan Methodist connection (or church), of full age, not less than 5, to...
• Section 458.42 Articles Of Association; Execution.
  The persons desiring to organize such church shall execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, articles of association in...
• Section 458.43 Articles; Contents, Form.
  Said articles of association shall contain the following items: First, the name of said church; second, the township, village or city, and the county...
• Section 458.44 Articles Of Association; Execution And Acknowledgment; Filing Articles With Department Of Commerce; Members Of Church As Body Politic Or Corporation.
  Said articles of association shall be executed in duplicate, and acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgment of deeds. One of...
• Section 458.45 Church Government; Ecclesiastical Polity.
  Said church, when so organized, shall be subject in all matters of church government and ecclesiastical polity to the discipline, usages and ministerial appointments...
• Section 458.46 Board Of Trustees; Election, Term, Vacancies; Secular Affairs.
  The secular affairs of such church shall be managed by a board of trustees, consisting of not less than 3 nor more than 9...
• Section 458.47 Board Of Trustees; Election In Certain Case; Dissolution, Conference Legal Successor; Sale Of Property.
  If it shall happen that any church organized under the provisions of this act shall, from any cause, be found at any time without...
• Section 458.48 Bylaws.
  The persons forming such corporation may adopt bylaws, and execute and acknowledge them in the same manner as the articles of association above provided...
• Section 458.49 Powers Of Corporation; Rights Of Ministers.
  Said corporation may have a seal and alter the same at pleasure; it may, in its corporate name, sue and be sued in all...
• Section 458.50 Alteration Or Amendment Of Articles Or Bylaws.
  It shall be lawful for any church organized under the provisions of this act, by a 2/3 vote of the members of the same,...
• Section 458.51 Sale Or Mortgage Of Real Estate For Re-investment Or To Pay Debts; Title, Passing To Annual Conference.
  When it shall become necessary for the payment of debts, or with a view to re-investment, to make a sale or mortgage of any...
• Section 458.52 Reincorporation Under Act; Procedure.
  Any Wesleyan Methodist church heretofore incorporated, or the trustees of which have heretofore exercised the powers of a body corporate, may by a 2/3...
• Section 458.53 Construction Of Inconsistent Acts.
  In all proceedings or suits that may arise, or be brought in any of the courts of this state, touching, or in any way...
• Section 458.54 Trustees; Evidence Of Authority.
  It is further provided that the execution by the acting trustees of said corporation, in proper form, of any deed, mortgage, note, bond, or...
• Section 458.55 Extension Of Corporate Existence; Filing Resolution With Department Of Commerce; Effect.
  Any corporation organized under the provisions of this act, whose corporate existence is about to expire by limitation, may extend its corporate existence from...

Last modified: October 10, 2016