Michigan Compiled Laws Act 40 Of 1899 Protestant Episcopal Churches (458.251 - 458.263)

• Section 458.251 Protestant Episcopal Church; Incorporation, Procedure; Body Corporate.
  It shall be lawful for any 6 or more persons, professing attachment to the Protestant Episcopal church, to execute and acknowledge, before any person...
• Section 458.252 Protestant Episcopal Church; Articles, Contents; Name; Location; Vestry Members.
  The articles shall contain: First, The name of the proposed church; Second, The township or city and county in which it is located; Third,...
• Section 458.253 Filing Articles; Acquisition Of Title To Property.
  Such articles of agreement, when duly signed and acknowledged, shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce; and...
• Section 458.254 First Meeting; Calling, Notice; Right To Vote; Election Of Vestry Members.
  Any 3 or more persons who have signed any such articles may call the first meeting of such church, at such time and place...
• Section 458.255 Subsequent Meetings; Right To Vote; Annual And Special Meetings, Notice; Election Of Vestry Members, Classification; Rector To Preside; Records.
  At all subsequent meetings, the right to vote shall be confined to such persons as shall be authorized by the laws of the church...
• Section 458.256 Wardens; Secretary, Treasurer; Meetings Of Vestry, Presiding Officer, Quorum, Vacancy.
  The vestry members shall annually choose by ballot from their own body 2 members, who shall be communicants, to be wardens. They shall also...
• Section 458.257 Powers Of Vestry; Owner Of Pew Or Slip.
  The vestry shall have the care and management of all the temporal affairs of such church, and they shall have authority, in the corporate...
• Section 458.258 Record Of Proceedings; Inspection, Evidence.
  The vestry shall keep a record of their proceedings, which, together with a record of the meetings of the congregation of the parish, shall,...
• Section 458.259 Reorganization And Extension Of Corporate Life; Procedure.
  Any Protestant Episcopal church whose corporate term of existence has expired, or may be about to expire, or may hereafter expire, by limitation, may...
• Section 458.260 Amendment Of Articles; Procedure; Existing Amendments Declared Valid.
  Any church incorporated under this act may, at any annual meeting, or at any special meeting, called for that purpose, by a vote of...
• Section 458.261 Repeal; Saving Clause.
  The following entitled acts are hereby repealed, viz.: “An act to provide for the organization of Protestant Episcopal churches,” approved February seventeenth, 1857; “An...
• Section 458.262 Reorganization And Incorporation Under Act, Procedure; Officers.
  Any Protestant Episcopal church, heretofore organized under any other general law than those mentioned in the last preceding section, may reorganize so as to...
• Section 458.263 Cathedral; Ex-officio Rector.
  Should it be desirable to use the church building and any other buildings or property of any Protestant Episcopal church heretofore or hereafter organized...

Last modified: October 10, 2016