New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 16 - Corporations And Associations, Religious

• Section 16:1-1 - Incorporation Of Religious Societies Or Congregations.
  16:1-1. Members of every religious society or congregation, entitled to protection in the free use of their religion by the constitution and laws of...
• Section 16:1-2 - Certificate; Contents; Recording; Effect On Corporate Existence
  The trustees shall make a certificate, under their hands and seals, of the name they take upon themselves, and shall transmit such certificate to...
• Section 16:1-3 - Certain Religious Societies Authorized To File Record With Secretary Of State
  Where the trustees of any religious society, pursuant to the provisions of an act entitled "An act to incorporate trustees of religious societies," approved...
• Section 16:1-4 - Powers
  Every religious society or congregation incorporated by virtue of any law of this state shall have power to: a. Have perpetual succession as such...
• Section 16:1-5 - Corporate Action By Majority Of Members; Presence In Person; Validity
  The proceedings, orders and acts of a majority of the members of such corporation present in person at any duly convened annual or special...
• Section 16:1-6 - Property; Power Of Sale; Authorization
  The trustees of any church or religious society and their successors in office or a majority of them are authorized and empowered to sell...
• Section 16:1-7 - Land For Cemetery Or Burial Purposes; Acquisition And Disposition
  Any religious society, however incorporated, may hold and convey and dispose of land, not exceeding fifty acres which was, before April twelfth, one thousand...
• Section 16:1-7.1 - Prohibitions Relative To Religious Entities; Terms Defined.
  1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a religious corporation, association, organization or society, however formed...
• Section 16:1-8 - Election Of Trustees; Tenure
  Any religious society or congregation may, at the meeting for the election of trustees, provide, by by-law or resolution, for the election of its...
• Section 16:1-10 - Annual Meeting; Notice; Procedure
  The annual meetings for the election of trustees and officers shall be called by the board of trustees of such religious society or congregation...
• Section 16:1-11 - Trustees Of Corporations Incorporated Under Special Act; Qualifications
  In the election of the trustees of any religious society incorporated by special act, it shall not be necessary that the trustees be members...
• Section 16:1-12 - Change Of Time And Place Of Annual Meeting Of Church Incorporated Under Special Act
  Any church or religious society incorporated by special act prior to March twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, may, at any annual meeting,...
• Section 16:1-13.1 - Election Of President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Other Officers; Dual Capacity As Officer And Trustee; Tenure
  Any religious society or congregation may elect, in the same manner and at the same time as trustees are elected, a president, a vice-president,...
• Section 16:1-13.2 - Vacancies
  In the event of any vacancy on the board of trustees or among the officers occasioned by the death, resignation, moving out of the...
• Section 16:1-13.3 - Qualifications Of Trustees And Officers; Members Entitled To Vote
  Any religious society or congregation recognizing no superior judicatory may provide in its by-laws the qualifications for its trustees and officers and may further...
• Section 16:1-14 - Convening Of Corporation And Execution Of Contracts
  The president may convene the corporation as occasion may require, preside at the meetings and execute all contracts. In his absence, sickness, death, resignation,...
• Section 16:1-15 - Secretary; Duties; Delivery Of Records When Office Expires; Access To Records
  The secretary shall keep the minutes and enter the orders, acts and proceedings in a book kept for that purpose. He shall have custody...
• Section 16:1-16 - Treasurer; Duties; Delivery Of Records When Term Expires
  The treasurer shall have charge of the money of the corporation and shall keep a correct account of its receipt and disbursement. At each...
• Section 16:1-18 - Corporate Changes; Name; Number Of Officers Or Trustees; Tenure
  Any religious corporation, incorporated by general or special act, may change its corporate name by a two-thirds vote of those present and entitled to...
• Section 16:1-19 - Certificate Of Change; Filing
  Whenever any change provided for in section 16:1-18 of this title is made, a certificate thereof, over the hand of the presiding officer of...
• Section 16:1-20 - Consolidation; Procedure
  Whenever two or more incorporated religious societies of the same denomination agree to consolidate or unite into one, with the approval thereof by the...
• Section 16:1-21 - Effect Of Consolidation On Property, Powers, Rights, Privileges And Franchises
  The new corporation shall be entitled to, and invested with, all the real and personal property, assets, rights, privileges, powers and franchises belonging to...
• Section 16:1-22 - Sale Or Disposition Of Trust Property; Law Applicable; Disposition Of Proceeds
  When an incorporated religious society or any officers or trustees thereof hold real estate granted, conveyed or devised by deed, will or otherwise, appropriating...
• Section 16:1-23 - Sale And Conveyance Of Trust Property By Trustees When Discharged Of Trust By Donor
  Any incorporated religious society or congregation, owning or holding the title to any real estate in trust or on condition that it shall be...
• Section 16:1-24 - Conveyance Of Real Estate To Church Or Religious Society By Its Corporate Name
  When a conveyance of real estate has been made to the trustees of any church or religious society, by their individual names as trustees...
• Section 16:1-25 - Diversion Of Estate, Property And Revenue; Action
  No rector, wardens or vestrymen, or trustees, consistory or session of any incorporated church, congregation or religious society of this state shall divert the...
• Section 16:1-26 - Disposition Of Funds For School Purposes; Action To Determine Disposition
  When funds have been given to any person or corporation for the purpose of maintaining a school, or for the support of poor scholars...
• Section 16:1-27 - Effect Of Incorporation Of Unincorporated Society On Property Previously Held
  When real estate has been conveyed or devised to any unincorporated religious association, society, meeting, congregation or organization, or to any persons as officers,...
• Section 16:1-28 - Saving Of Rights Under Charters Granted By Great Britain
  Rev.1877, p. 960, s. 12 (C.S. p. 4311, s. 12), being section twelve of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the trustees of...
• Section 16:1-29 - Title Extended To Singing Classes And Sunday Schools
  The provisions of this title, with all its penalties, rights, privileges and advantages, are extended to and for the benefit of all associations, corporations...
• Section 16:1-30 - Church, Religious Society Or Denomination; Corporate Entity; Suits
  Any church, religious society, or denomination of Christians, being the whole body of religious believers having a common faith and polity, now or hereafter...
• Section 16:1-31 - Organizations Or Committees To Aid Feeble Congregations; Additional Powers
  All organizations or committees incorporated prior to April sixth, one thousand nine hundred and eight, under the laws of this state, either by private...
• Section 16:1-32 - Incorporation; Powers
  Any general organization for this state formed by societies or congregations which are incorporated or have a right to become incorporated under this title,...
• Section 16:1-33 - Property Subject To Regulations Of State Organization
  Any property held by such general organization for this state shall be for the use of the members of such societies or congregations and...
• Section 16:1-34 - Incorporation; Powers; Corporate Action
  Every association of persons composed of representatives from religious societies or congregations of Christians may, at any regular meeting of the association, by a...
• Section 16:1-35 - Trustees; Election
  The members of such association, assembled at any regularly appointed meeting, may elect trustees in the manner provided in section 16:1-34 of this title...
• Section 16:1-36 - Officers; Duties
  Such corporation may elect a president, secretary and treasurer as provided in sections 16:1-13, 16:1-15 and 16:1-16 of this title, which officers shall have...
• Section 16:1-37 - Incorporation; Certificate; Trustees; Tenure
  Any diocesan convention, presbytery, classis, synod, annual conference, or other governing body having jurisdiction over a number of incorporated or unincorporated churches, congregations or...
• Section 16:1-38 - Account; Trustees To Furnish; Audit
  The trustees provided for in section 16:1-37 of this title shall furnish to the governing body a statement and account of the particulars and...
• Section 16:1-39 - Property Of Extinct Churches
  When any parish, congregation, society, church, chapel, mission, or religious, benevolent or educational institution in connection with any such governing body owning any property...
• Section 16:1-40 - Incorporation; Certificate; Contents And Filing
  Any diocesan convention, presbytery, classis, synod, annual conference or other governing body having jurisdiction over a number of incorporated or unincorporated churches, congregations or...
• Section 16:1-41 - Trustees; Holders Of Designated Offices As
  The convention or other governing body may provide that such persons, for the time holding certain designated offices in the church, convention or other...
• Section 16:1-42 - Trustees; Filling Vacancies
  Vacancies in the board of trustees shall be filled by the convention or other governing body, which may provide that vacancies occurring in trusteeships...
• Section 16:1-43 - Powers
  Such corporation shall have power to: a. Establish, erect, maintain and manage a cathedral church within the diocese or other jurisdiction, and such other...
• Section 16:1-43.1 - Consolidation Authorized
  Any cathedral church or foundation incorporated under the provisions of "A supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate trustees of religious societies'...
• Section 16:1-43.2 - Consolidation Agreement
  Such cathedral church or foundation, by the vote of its general chapter or other highest governing body, and such church, congregation, parish or society,...
• Section 16:1-43.3 - Consolidation Agreement; Provisions For Organization, Etc.
  The consolidation agreement, and the constitution and statutes or by-laws, of the consolidated corporation, or either thereof, may provide, consistently with the doctrine, government,...
• Section 16:1-43.4 - Approval And Adoption Of Agreement
  The consolidation agreement shall be submitted for approval and adoption, (a) to the diocesan convention, presbytery, classis, synod, annual conference or other governing body...
• Section 16:1-43.5 - Certificate Of Adoption; Filing, Notice Of Adoption
  The consolidation agreement, after adoption, with a certificate annexed by each constituent corporation, executed under its seal and signed by its secretary or clerk...
• Section 16:1-43.6 - Effect Of Consolidation
  When the consolidation becomes effective, the constituent corporations shall be one corporation by the name provided in the agreement, and all of the rights,...
• Section 16:1-43.7 - Gifts, Legacies, Etc., To Vest In Consolidated Corporation; Continuation Of Separate Constituents
  Every gift, grant, legacy, bequest or devise, in trust or otherwise, vested or contingent, in possession or expectancy, contained in any will or other...
• Section 16:1-43.8 - Vested Rights And Privileges Of Constituent Corporations; Continuation Of Corporate Existence
  Nothing herein contained shall impair, annul or affect any vested rights, charter rights, privileges, exemptions, immunities, powers, prerogatives, franchises or advantages heretofore obtained and...
• Section 16:1-43.9 - Powers Of Consolidated Corporation
  The consolidated corporation shall have and may exercise all powers conferred by the respective certificates of incorporation or charters of the constituent corporations, by...
• Section 16:1-43.10 - Copy Of Consolidation Agreement To Be Evidence; Records
  A copy of the consolidation agreement, certified by the Secretary of State, shall be evidence in all courts and for all purposes of the...
• Section 16:1-44 - Registration Of Name With Secretary Of State; Fee
  Any religious body may register with the secretary of state the name, title or designation under which it operates, or functions, or its activities...
• Section 16:1-45 - Certificate Of Registration; Certificate As Evidence
  The secretary of state shall issue to such registrant a certificate of the recording of any such name, title or designation, which certificate shall...
• Section 16:1-46 - Infringement On Name; Misdemeanor
  No association, corporation, society, foundation, order, federation or organization shall have or use a name, title or designation similar to, or in imitation of,...
• Section 16:1-47 - Directors Of Corporations For Support Of Ministers; Increase; Tenure
  The body vested by law with the power of election or appointment of the managers or directors of any corporation of this state, the...
• Section 16:2-1 - Incorporation
  The members of any Baptist church in this state, organized according to the usages and customs of Baptist churches, may incorporate in the following...
• Section 16:2-2 - Certificate; Filing And Recording
  A certificate in writing of such proceedings, under the hands and seals of the president and secretary of the meeting, shall be transmitted to...
• Section 16:2-3 - Powers; Rules And Regulations
  Every such corporation shall have all the powers and liabilities of corporations enumerated in article 1 of chapter 1 of this title (s. 16:1-1...
• Section 16:2-4 - Conveyances Or Written Contracts; Requisites
  Any conveyance of real estate or interest therein, or other written contract made by any such corporation shall be executed under the hand of...
• Section 16:2-5 - Devise Or Bequest; Not Defeated By Misnomer
  Any devise or bequest to any such corporation shall not be defeated by reason of any misnomer, if the intention of the testator can...
• Section 16:2-6 - Organization For Business; President
  The board of trustees of every such corporation shall, as soon as practicable after their election, organize for business by appointing one of their...
• Section 16:2-7 - Trustees; Accounting; Action By Majority
  Such board shall keep and report to the church annually, or oftener if required, a full and accurate account of its transactions and the...
• Section 16:2-8 - Property; Powers Concerning
  The board of trustees shall have the care, custody and oversight of the property of such incorporated church, except moneys raised for the support...
• Section 16:2-9 - Trustees; Election; Tenure; Notice Of Meeting
  The members of any such incorporated church may, upon the notice prescribed by section 16:2-1 of this title, by the vote required for the...
• Section 16:2-10 - Trustees; Increase In Number
  Whenever any religious society of the Baptist denomination has incorporated trustees under the provisions of article 1 of chapter 1 of this title (s....
• Section 16:2-11 - Law Applicable
  The provisions of article 1 of chapter 1 of this title (s. 16:1-1 et seq.) shall be applicable to any Baptist churches which do...
• Section 16:2-12 - Incorporation Under This Article
  When any Baptist church, the trustees of which are incorporated under article 1 of chapter 1 of this title (s. 16:1-1 et seq.), desires...
• Section 16:2-13 - Consolidation
  Any Baptist church, incorporated under any law of this state, may resolve to merge and consolidate with any other Baptist church by a two-thirds...
• Section 16:2-14 - Change Of Name
  Any Baptist church in this state, however incorporated, may change its corporate name by a majority vote of its members present at a meeting...
• Section 16:2-15 - Certificate Of Change; Recording
  A certificate in writing, setting forth and certifying that notice of such meeting had been given in accordance with section 16:2-14 of this title,...
• Section 16:2-16 - Dissolution
  Any Baptist church incorporated under any law of this state may dissolve by a two-thirds vote of the members, entitled to vote, present and...
• Section 16:2-17 - Incorporation; Powers And Privileges
  Any association composed of representatives from Baptist churches may incorporate in the following manner: At any regular meeting such association shall adopt a name...
• Section 16:2-18 - Change Of Name; Certificate; Filing
  Any association of Baptist churches, incorporated under the laws of this state, may change its corporate name by a majority vote of its members...
• Section 16:2-19 - Disposition Of Property; Reversionary Interests; Liens
  All the real and personal property belonging to or held in trust for any Baptist church or Baptist religious society or belonging to or...
• Section 16:2-20 - Dissolution Of Church
  Any Baptist church or religious society or any Seventh-Day Baptist church or religious society in this State, which has ceased, or failed to maintain...
• Section 16:2-21 - Action For Dissolution; Disposition Of Property
  Such an action may be brought by any member, trustee or officer of the New Jersey Baptist Missionary Convention or of the Seventh-Day Baptist...
• Section 16:3-1 - Incorporation; Meeting For
  Any church of Christ, Scientist, in this state, which is a branch of and organized in accordance with the provisions of the manual of...
• Section 16:3-2 - Meeting; Facts To Be Determined; Election Of Trustees; Tenure
  The meeting shall decide whether the church shall become incorporated and if it decides in favor of incorporation, it shall decide further: a. The...
• Section 16:3-3 - Certificate; Contents; Recording
  The chairman and clerk of the meeting shall make, sign and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take the acknowledgment and proof of deeds...
• Section 16:3-4 - Powers; Sale Of Property Subject To Approval Of Members; By-laws
  Every such incorporated board of trustees elected in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall have power to: Have perpetual succession by its...
• Section 16:3-5 - Trustees; Filling Vacancies; Election
  The enrolled members of any such church, who are twenty-one years of age, may assemble at a duly called regular or special meeting, and...
• Section 16:3-6 - Reincorporation Under This Chapter
  Any church of Christ, Scientist, which is a branch of and organized in accordance with the provisions of the manual of the mother church...
• Section 16:3-7 - Changes; Title; Number Of Trustees
  Any such corporation may, at a regular or special meeting of its enrolled members, duly called for the purpose, change its corporate title or...
• Section 16:3-8 - Right To Consolidate
  Any church of Christ, Scientist, in this state, which is a branch of, and which is organized in accordance with the provisions of the...
• Section 16:3-9 - Consolidation; Agreement
  Such consolidation may be effected in the following manner: A written agreement, setting forth the corporate title of the new church, the number of...
• Section 16:3-10 - Consolidation; Meeting; Election Of Trustees; Tenure
  At the time and place fixed by the agreement for holding the first consolidated meeting of the churches that have entered into the agreement,...
• Section 16:3-11 - Certificate; Contents; Filing And Recording; Consolidation Effected On; Property
  The chairman and clerk of such meeting shall make, sign and acknowledge before any person authorized to take the acknowledgment and proof of deeds...
• Section 16:4-1 - Incorporation
  Any church or congregation now or hereafter established by a branch of any society or confraternity of clergymen in this state may incorporate in...
• Section 16:4-2 - Trustees; Powers
  The persons so signing such certificate shall be the trustees of the corporation, and they and their successors shall by such name of incorporation...
• Section 16:4-3 - Trustees; Succession; Filling Vacancies
  The successor in office for the time being of such pastor shall, by virtue of his office, be the trustee of such church or...
• Section 16:4-4 - President; Powers And Duties
  The corporation may elect annually, or oftener if necessary or expedient, one of its own members to be president, who shall keep the minutes...
• Section 16:4-5 - Corporate Action By Majority Vote Of Members
  The proceedings, orders and acts of a majority of all the members of the corporation, but not of a less number, shall be valid...
• Section 16:4-6 - Revival Of Corporation Dissolved For Failure To Continue Succession Of Trustees
  If any corporation created under or by virtue of the provisions of this chapter shall be dissolved by failure to continue the succession of...
• Section 16:5-1 - Incorporation
  Any Lutheran Church Congregation may, at the option of a majority of the adult members thereof, incorporate under the provisions of this chapter as...
• Section 16:5-2 - Incorporation Validated
  L.1884, c. 178, s. 1, p. 263 (C.S. p. 4352, s. 118), being section one of an act entitled "An act to confirm the...
• Section 16:5-3 - Certain Provisions Of Title Extended To Lutheran Church Congregations
  The provisions of article 1 of chapter 1 of this Title relating to the incorporation, and the rights, privileges and duties of religious societies...
• Section 16:5-4 - Lutheran Synod Or District; Formation
  Any general organization for this State formed by ordained ministers and congregations of the Lutheran Church, at a convention, conference or meeting, held within...
• Section 16:5-5 - Board Of Trustees
  The said ordained ministers and delegates or representatives of the said congregations at such convention, conference or meeting shall elect a board of trustees...
• Section 16:5-6 - Certificate; Filing; Fee
  The trustees so elected, or the presiding officer and secretary, or acting secretary, of such convention, conference or meeting, on behalf of said trustees,...
• Section 16:5-7 - Contents Of Certificate
  Any such certificate shall set forth: (a) The name or title or such corporation, which shall include the word "Lutheran" as part thereof and...
• Section 16:5-8 - Written Certificate Required; Acknowledgment
  The said certificate shall be in writing and shall be duly acknowledged by the said trustees or the said officers in the same manner...
• Section 16:5-9 - Constitution
  Any such corporation shall adopt a constitution defining its doctrinal basis and setting forth the qualifications and voting powers of its members and its...
• Section 16:5-10 - By-laws
  Any such corporation may also adopt by-laws for the regulation of its corporate affairs, including the meetings of the members, officers, committees, sessions and...
• Section 16:5-11 - Officers And Committees
  Any such constitution may provide for the holding ex officio of certain offices and positions and for an executive and other committees of the...
• Section 16:5-12 - Powers Of Corporation
  Every such corporation shall have the general powers conferred by law upon incorporated religious societies and, in addition, shall have the following powers: (a)...
• Section 16:5-13 - Strife And Division In Congregation; Settlement; Title And Disposition Of Property
  Any such corporation, by its constitution or other agreement with its constituent and affiliated congregations, may provide for the settlement and determination of strife...
• Section 16:5-15 - Manner Of Incorporation Of Lutheran Church Congregation; Organizational Meeting; Notice
  The incorporation of a Lutheran Church Congregation shall be secured in the following manner: An organization meeting or a special meeting of the members...
• Section 16:5-16 - Resolution Of Incorporation; Number Of Trustees; Election; Terms
  If at such meeting a majority of the adult confirmed members in good standing, or of the intended charter members, shall decide by resolution...
• Section 16:5-17 - Trustees; Terms; Vacancies
  The terms of the trustees' offices may be so arranged as to provide that not more than 1/3 of the trustees shall be elected...
• Section 16:5-18 - Corporate Name; Determination; Resolution; Required Vote
  The corporate name of the congregation shall be determined by resolution adopted by a majority vote of the said members of the congregation or...
• Section 16:5-19 - Certificate Of Incorporation; Contents; Acknowledgment
  If it shall be so decided to incorporate the congregation, a certificate of incorporation shall be made, signed and sealed by the trustees or...
• Section 16:5-20 - Certificate; Filing; Recording; Effect
  The certificate so acknowledged shall be filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State and a certified copy thereof shall be...
• Section 16:5-21 - Members; Voting Rights
  Every member of the congregation in good standing shall be a member of the corporation but only those members who are authorized to vote...
• Section 16:5-22 - Powers
  The corporation shall have all the powers enumerated in section 16:1-4 of the Revised Statutes, except that no sale or conveyance of any real...
• Section 16:5-23 - Meetings; By-laws
  There shall be an annual meeting of the members of the corporation and such other meetings as shall be prescribed by the by-laws to...
• Section 16:5-24 - Affiliation With Constituent Synod Or District; Acceptance Of Act By Previously Incorporated Churches; Certificate
  Every such incorporated congregation may affiliate itself with a constituent synod or district of the Lutheran Church or its successor but, after any such...
• Section 16:5-25 - Merger; Consent; Certificate
  Any incorporated Lutheran Church or congregation may merge, with the consent of the synod with which it is affiliated, with any other incorporated Lutheran...
• Section 16:5-26 - Disbanding Or Ceasing To Function; Passage Of Title To Synod Or District
  In the event that any incorporated Lutheran Church or congregation disbands, or ceases to function or to conduct public worship or fails to elect...
• Section 16:5-27 - Combinations, Consolidations Or Mergers
  Any 2 or more organizations incorporated under the provisions of this chapter as amended and supplemented may combine, consolidate or merge in the same...
• Section 16:6-1 - Extinct Free Methodist Churches Or Societies; Disposition Of Property
  All real and personal property belonging to or held in trust for any Free Methodist church or society which now is or may hereafter...
• Section 16:6-2 - Extinct Church Or Society Defined
  A church or religious society shall be regarded as extinct when its membership is so reduced that it has not sufficient members to fill...
• Section 16:6-3 - Conference; Powers With Relation To Extinct Churches Or Religious Societies
  The "Trustees of the New York Conference of the Free Methodist Church" may, in pursuance of a resolution by it: a. Sell the property...
• Section 16:7-1 - Division Of Property On Division Or Separation In Unincorporated Society Of Friends
  Rev.1877, p. 967, s.s. 60 to 64 (C.S. p. 4337, s.s. 63 to 67), entitled "An act relative to the property of the unincorporated...
• Section 16:7-2 - Title To Property; Appointment Of Trustee
  The members of any Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, may, from time to time, at any of...
• Section 16:7-3 - Trustee's Title
  Such trustee or trustees shall hold title to such real property subject to all of the provisions contained in the trust instrument under which...
• Section 16:7-4 - Death Of Trustee; Appointment Of Successor
  If all of the trustees appointed pursuant to this act have died, the members may, from time to time, at any of their business...
• Section 16:7-5 - Certified Copy Of Minutes Of Meeting; Recording
  Any action taken by the members at a business meeting shall be duly recorded in the minutes thereof, and a copy of the minutes,...
• Section 16:7-6 - Contents Of Minutes
  The minutes shall include a detailed description of the real property in question, a list of the names of the trustees to be succeeded...
• Section 16:8-1 - Certain Provisions Of Title Extended To German Reformed Churches
  The provisions of this title relating to the incorporation, the rights, privileges and duties of the Reformed, formerly the Reformed Dutch, churches shall be...
• Section 16:10a-1 - The United Methodist Church; Power To Assume And Use Name; Existing Rights, Powers, Etc., Not Affected
  Notwithstanding any other general, special or local law, all religious corporations or churches heretofore authorized to use, or known by, the names "The Methodist...
• Section 16:10a-2 - Incorporation Of Local Churches; Resolution; Meeting; Notice; Name; Trustees
  When so authorized and directed by the charge conference of any unincorporated local church duly organized in accordance with the Discipline of The United...
• Section 16:10a-3 - Certificate Of Incorporation; Form And Content
  Whenever a local church of The United Methodist Church shall have resolved to incorporate or reincorporate at a meeting held for such purpose, as...
• Section 16:10a-4 - Incorporation Of Society, Conference, Board, Association Or Other Organization Connected With Church
  Any society, conference, board, association or other organization connected with The United Methodist Church may incorporate, or if incorporated may reincorporate, in the following...
• Section 16:10a-5 - Alteration Or Amendment Of Certificate Of Incorporation
  Any local church of, or any other organization connected with, The United Methodist Church now or hereafter incorporated may alter or amend its certificate...
• Section 16:10a-6 - By-laws
  The by-laws of any local church of, or of any other organization connected with, The United Methodist Church shall include the Discipline of The...
• Section 16:10a-7 - Powers
  An incorporated local church of, or other incorporated organization connected with, The United Methodist Church shall have such powers as may be granted to...
• Section 16:10a-8 - Board Of Trustees; Membership; Election; Term; Vacancy
  The board of trustees of any local church of The United Methodist Church shall consist of three, six or nine members, as may be...
• Section 16:10a-9 - Powers And Duties Of Trustees
  The trustees of an incorporated local church of The United Methodist Church shall be the directors of the corporation, and shall have the custody...
• Section 16:10a-10 - Merger Of Two Or More Local Churches
  Any 2 or more local churches of The United Methodist Church in this State may resolve to merge and become a single church in...
• Section 16:10a-11 - Real Property Of Local Church; Sale, Transfer Or Mortgage; Procedure And Conditions
  Any real property owned by a local church of The United Methodist Church, or in which such local church has an interest, shall be...
• Section 16:10a-12 - Proceeds From Sale Or Mortgage Not Available For Current Church Expense
  The real estate on which a church building or parsonage of a local church of The United Methodist Church is located shall not be...
• Section 16:10a-13 - Written Acknowledged Consent To Sale Or Transfer Of Real Property; Effect
  The written acknowledged consent by the appropriate district superintendent to any sale, conveyance or transfer of real property by a local church of, or...
• Section 16:10a-14 - Abandonment Of Local Church
  All real and personal property belonging to or held in trust for any local church of The United Methodist Church that has or shall...
• Section 16:10a-15 - Voters; Qualifications; Majority Vote
  To be qualified to vote at a meeting of the charge conference, or at a meeting of the membership of a local church of,...
• Section 16:11-1 - Incorporation; Election Of Trustees; Tenure
  Any Christian congregation connected with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, not having an incorporated board of trustees, may elect...
• Section 16:11-2 - Certificate Of Incorporation; Contents; Acknowledgment; Recording
  Such board of trustees shall make, sign and seal a certificate of incorporation as soon as possible after the first election, setting forth: a....
• Section 16:11-3 - Powers; Sale, Conveyance Or Mortgage; Authorization By Members
  The congregation may, at any annual business meeting or at a special business meeting duly called for that purpose, adopt by-laws for the management...
• Section 16:11-4 - Certain Powers Subject To Authority Of Session Or Spiritual Officers
  In the exercise of any power necessary to the proper care of the property held for the uses of the congregation, such corporation shall...
• Section 16:11-5 - Voters; Qualifications; List Of
  The persons entitled to vote at any annual or special business meeting of any congregation connected with the United Presbyterian Church in the United...
• Section 16:11-6 - Succession Of Trustees Of Church Having Incorporated Board
  L.1905, c. 137, s. 3, p. 252 (C.S. p. 4342, s. 79), being section three of an act entitled "An act concerning the election...
• Section 16:11-7 - Trustees; Change Of Number
  Any Christian congregation connected with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, having an incorporated board of trustees, may change the...
• Section 16:11-8 - Meetings Of Trustees; President To Convene
  The president of the board of trustees may convene the board as occasion may require, and shall convene it on a written request signed...
• Section 16:11-9 - Secretary; Minutes And Seal
  The secretary of the board of trustees shall keep the minutes of the proceedings of the board in a book to be provided for...
• Section 16:11-10 - Treasurer; Election And Duties
  A treasurer may be elected by a plurality of the votes cast by a congregation at its first business meeting for the election of...
• Section 16:11-11 - Treasurer; Election By Trustees; Duties And Powers
  If a treasurer is not elected by a congregation at its first business meeting for the election of trustees or at any annual business...
• Section 16:11-12 - Auditing Committee
  An auditing committee consisting of three persons shall be elected at the first business meeting of a congregation for the election of trustees and...
• Section 16:11-13 - Vacancies Of Trustees Or Officers; Filling
  Whenever a vacancy shall occur in any board of trustees, the remaining trustees shall constitute the board until the vacancy is filled. The vacancy...
• Section 16:11-14 - Annual Meetings Of Congregation
  Every annual business meeting of any such congregation shall be held at its usual place of meeting for public worship at such time as...
• Section 16:11-15 - Special Meetings Of Congregation
  Every special business meeting of any such congregation shall be held at its usual place of meeting for public worship and may be called...
• Section 16:11-16 - Annual Reports; Statements
  The minutes of the proceedings of the board of trustees and of all annual and special business meetings of the congregation, and a statement...
• Section 16:11-17 - Records; Trustees Or Members May Examine
  Subject to reasonable regulations, any member of the board of trustees or congregation shall, upon application to the secretary or treasurer, be entitled to...
• Section 16:11-18 - Incorporation Of Presbytery; Powers
  Any presbytery in this State of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, convened at a stated meeting in accordance with...
• Section 16:11-19 - Trustees; Succession; Election; Tenure
  The members of any presbytery, incorporated under section 16:11-18 of this title, may, at a stated meeting, elect by ballot, in the manner directed...
• Section 16:11-20 - President
  Such corporation may elect annually one of its own members to be president. He shall keep the minutes and enter the orders, acts and...
• Section 16:11-21 - Reincorporation Under Other Provisions; Resolution; Certificate Recorded
  Any presbytery incorporated under this article, that shall desire to avail itself of any other statutory provisions relating to or providing for the incorporation...
• Section 16:11-22 - Trustees; Change Of Number And Tenure; Provisions For Election Of Officers; Resolution; Certificate Recorded
  Any presbytery incorporated under this article may, by a resolution approved by its board of trustees and by the presbytery, change the number of...
• Section 16:11-23 - Property Of Dissolved Church; Disposition Of Property And Proceeds
  When any presbytery in this State connected with the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America heretofore has dissolved or hereafter dissolves...
• Section 16:11-24 - Certified Copy Receivable In Evidence
  A copy of any certificate required to be filed in the office of the secretary of state by any provision of this chapter, duly...
• Section 16:12-1 - Incorporation; Meeting
  Any congregation or parish of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this State, duly organized in accordance with the constitution and canons of such church,...
• Section 16:12-2 - Certificate; Acknowledgment; Contents; Filing And Recording
  A certificate shall be executed, under the hands and seals of the chairman and secretary of the meeting and acknowledged or proved in the...
• Section 16:12-3 - Powers
  Any parish of the Protestant Episcopal Church, duly incorporated hereunder or under any other law or charter or letters patent, notwithstanding any restriction contained...
• Section 16:12-4 - Sale, Conveyance, Mortgage Or Lease Of Real Estate; Consent Of Bishop And Standing Committee
  No sale, conveyance or mortgage of any real estate other than burial lots in churchyards or cemeteries, and no lease for a longer term...
• Section 16:12-5 - By-laws
  By-laws made by any such corporation shall be consistent with law and with the constitution and laws of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
• Section 16:12-6 - Members And Officers
  The rector shall be a member and the presiding officer of every such corporation, but if there be no rector, the wardens and vestrymen...
• Section 16:12-7 - Rector; Filling Vacancy
  When a vacancy shall occur in the office of rector, in any manner whatsoever, the wardens and vestrymen, two-thirds of them concurring in the...
• Section 16:12-8 - Meetings Of Vestry
  Meetings of the vestry shall be called on at least twenty-four hours' notice by: a. The rector at any time; b. The wardens, if...
• Section 16:12-9 - Vestry; Quorum
  To constitute a quorum of the vestry there must be present either: a. The rector, one of the wardens and a majority of the...
• Section 16:12-10 - Annual Parish Election; Notice; Officers; Qualifications Of Voters; Ballot; Quorum; By-law Regarding Wardens Or Vestrymen
  The annual election of any such parish shall be held on such day as may be designated in its certificate of incorporation, if consistent...
• Section 16:12-11 - Election Of Officers; Tenure
  At each annual election of any such parish incorporated after March twentieth, one thousand nine hundred and one, one warden shall be elected to...
• Section 16:12-12 - Warden Or Vestryman; Filling Vacancy
  In the event of a vacancy in the office of warden or vestryman caused by the failure of any candidate to receive a majority...
• Section 16:12-13 - Special Parish Meetings
  Special meetings of the parish for any of the purposes provided in this article, may be called by the rector at any time, or...
• Section 16:12-14 - Changes; Corporate Title, Number Of Vestrymen, Tenure, Annual Meeting
  Any parish of the Protestant Episcopal Church, however incorporated, may change its corporate title, the number of its vestrymen, the terms of office of...
• Section 16:12-15 - Consolidation
  Two or more incorporated parishes of such church may consolidate and become 1 parish in the following manner: A meeting of the vestry of...
• Section 16:12-16 - Property Of Extinct Parish
  If and when the convention of said church which has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over a parish shall determine that regular church services are no longer...
• Section 16:12-17 - "Parish" As Meaning "Congregation"
  The word "parish" when used in this chapter shall be construed to be equivalent to "congregation" whenever necessary to carry out the object and...
• Section 16:12-18 - Incorporation
  When any diocese now or hereafter created in this State under and by virtue of the authority of the general convention of the Protestant...
• Section 16:12-19 - Powers; Holding Property In Trust
  Such corporation shall have all the powers enumerated in section 16:1-4 of this title, except the power stated in paragraph "i" of said section....
• Section 16:12-20 - Trustees; Certificate Of Incorporation; Filing; Powers
  The corporation may appoint or elect as trustees, in such manner as may be determined, not less that five discreet persons, who are members...
• Section 16:12-21 - Management Of Funds; Property In Trust
  Such trustees shall have the management and care of any fund already existing, or which may hereafter be contributed, acquired or received, and any...
• Section 16:12-22 - Statement Of Proceedings And Account; Removal Of Trustee; Filling Vacancy
  Such trustees shall present to each regular diocesan convention a statement of their proceedings, exhibiting the condition of the fund, together with an account...
• Section 16:12-23 - Division Of Property On Division Of Diocese
  When any diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America within the state of New Jersey, has been or shall...
• Section 16:12-24 - Change Of Corporate Names; Filing Certificate
  The incorporated convention of any diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church may, by resolution at any regular meeting thereof, change the corporate name of...
• Section 16:12-25 - Effect Of Change On Property Rights And Liabilities
  After such change of name such corporations shall respectively hold, convey and administer, under and by their new name, all the property, estates, trusts,...
• Section 16:12-26 - Establishment Of Trust Fund
  The Diocesan Convention of any Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church within the State of New Jersey may, by canon or by-law, establish a...
• Section 16:12-27 - Investment In Trust Fund
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law of this State in any way limiting the right of said trustees, parishes, congregations, societies, chapels or...
• Section 16:12-28 - Name Of Fund; Management; Incorporation; Powers Of Corporation
  Said common trust fund, shall be designated as the Diocesan Investment Trust of the Diocese of (name of Diocese) and shall be under the...
• Section 16:12-29 - Authority To Retain Investments
  The corporation is authorized to retain in its absolute discretion and for such period as to the said trustees shall seem advisable any and...
• Section 16:12-30 - Reinvestments; Securities In Which Funds May Be Invested
  The corporation is also authorized to change investments and properties and to invest and reinvest all or any part of the fund in such...
• Section 16:12-31 - Dividends
  The corporation shall pay ratably among the holders of shares or interests then outstanding, annually, or, in the discretion of said trustees, more frequently,...
• Section 16:13-1 - Incorporation
  As used in this chapter, "Reformed" congregation, church or society means and includes those which were formerly designated by the name "Reformed Dutch" congregation,...
• Section 16:13-2 - Powers; Execution Of Deeds
  Such trustees shall have all the powers enumerated in section 16:1-4 of this title, except that no deed or instrument of conveyance of real...
• Section 16:13-3 - Succession Of Trustees; Tenure; Decision Of Disputes
  Every minister, elder or deacon shall continue in office as such trustee until another person shall be duly elected, appointed or called in his...
• Section 16:13-4 - President; Corporate Meetings
  The president of such corporation shall be the person who is, according to the usage and custom of the Reformed Church, ordinarily to preside...
• Section 16:13-5 - Minutes; Seal; Records
  The corporation may, from time to time, appoint a fit person belonging to such congregation, who shall keep the minutes, and enter the orders,...
• Section 16:13-6 - Access To Corporate Records
  Every person of the congregation who regularly contributes to the support of the gospel in the congregation, shall have free access to all the...
• Section 16:13-7 - Corporate Action By Majority Vote; Right To Vote
  The proceedings, orders and acts of a majority of all the members of the corporation, but not of a less number, shall be valid...
• Section 16:13-8 - Renunciation Of Charter Upon Incorporation Under This Chapter
  The trustees of any Reformed congregation, by whatever name incorporated, may renounce or forego the charter or act by which they were incorporated and...
• Section 16:13-9 - Division Of Congregations And Property
  Where two or more Reformed congregations, which have been united into one corporation, shall disunite by renouncing or foregoing their former incorporation, and each...
• Section 16:13-10 - Renunciation Of Separate Charters And Joint Incorporation
  The trustees of any two or more Reformed congregations, by whatever name known in their charters or acts of incorporation, may form one joint...
• Section 16:13-11 - Chapter Extended To True Reformed Dutch Or Christian Reformed Churches; Incorporations Validated
  The provisions of this chapter and of former acts of the legislature relating to the incorporation of trustees of religious societies applying to Reformed...
• Section 16:13-12 - Rights And Customs Confirmed
  The rights and customs of the Reformed Church in America to conduct their affairs and to convey or mortgage their property by a majority...
• Section 16:13-13 - Sections Inapplicable To Reformed Churches
  The provisions of sections 16:1-1, 16:1-2, 16:1-9, 16:1-13, 16:1-14, 16:1-15 and 16:1-16 of this title shall not be construed to extend to or affect...
• Section 16:13-14 - Extinct Church Or Religious Society; Vesting Of Property; Reversionary Interests
  All real and personal property belonging to or held in trust for any Reformed church in America or any Reformed religious society in America...
• Section 16:13-15 - Extinct Church Or Religious Society Defined; Dissolution; Transfer Of Property
  Any Reformed church in America or Reformed religious society in America, in this State, which has ceased or failed to maintain religious worship or...
• Section 16:13-16 - Action For Dissolution
  Such an action may be brought by any member or officer of such classis having ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the same, when duly authorized by...
• Section 16:13-17 - Management Or Sale Of Property By Classis
  Such classis may manage, sell or otherwise freely dispose of such property and apply the proceeds of any sale, in such manner as to...
• Section 16:14-1 - Reformed Episcopal Church; Incorporation And Powers
  So much of Rev.1877, p. 962, s.s. 27 to 37 (C.S. p. 4318, s.s. 27 to 37), entitled "An act to incorporate trustees of...
• Section 16:15-1 - Incorporation
  Any Roman Catholic church or congregation in this state may incorporate in the following manner: The Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese in which...
• Section 16:15-2 - Trustees; Powers
  The persons so signing the certificate shall be the trustees of the corporation, and they and their successors shall, by such name of incorporation,...
• Section 16:15-3 - Succession Of Trustees; Tenure; Vacancy
  The successor in office for the time being of such bishop, vicar-general and pastor, respectively, shall by virtue of his office be the trustee...
• Section 16:15-4 - President
  Such corporation may elect annually, or oftener if necessary or expedient, one of their own members to be president. The president shall keep the...
• Section 16:15-5 - Corporate Action By Majority Of Members; Sanction Of Bishop
  The proceedings, orders and acts of a majority of all the members of such corporation, but not of a less number, upon receiving the...
• Section 16:15-6 - Reincorporation After Failure Of Succession; Property
  If any corporation created under or by virtue of the provisions of this article shall be dissolved by failure to continue the succession of...
• Section 16:15-7 - Reincorporation Of Religious Associations
  Any religious association incorporated under or by virtue of any law of this state may organize under this article. Upon filing a certificate according...
• Section 16:15-8 - Conduct Of Affairs; Conveyances And Mortgages Without Approval Of Congregation
  The rights and customs of any Roman Catholic church corporation, incorporated under the provisions of this title, to conduct its affairs and convey or...
• Section 16:15-9 - Incorporation
  Any Roman Catholic diocese in this state may incorporate in the following manner: The Roman Catholic bishop of any such diocese, the vicar-general of...
• Section 16:15-10 - Trustees; Tenure; Vacancies; Succession
  The bishop, vicar-general, or administrator, as the case may be, and the chancellor of such diocese, together with the two priests elected as aforesaid,...
• Section 16:15-11 - Powers Of Trustees
  Such first trustees and their successors shall, by such name of incorporation, be able and capable unlimitedly to: Acquire, purchase, receive, erect, have, hold...
• Section 16:15-12 - President And Treasurer
  The bishop of such diocese shall, by virtue of his office, be the president and treasurer of the corporation, unless the board of trustees...
• Section 16:15-13 - Secretary
  The corporation may elect annually, or at such periods as it may deem fit, one of its trustees to be the secretary, who shall...
• Section 16:15-14 - Corporate Action By Majority Of Members; Sanction Of Bishop
  The proceedings, orders, acts, contracts or obligations of a majority of all the members of the corporation, but not of a less number, upon...
• Section 16:15-15 - Dissolution Not Caused By Failure Of Succession Of Trustees
  Any corporation created under this article shall not be dissolved by failure to continue the succession of trustees thereof at any time specified for...
• Section 16:15-16 - Reincorporation Under This Article
  Any diocesan or other religious organization incorporated under and by virtue of any law of this state, may organize under this article. Upon filing...
• Section 16:15-17 - Incorporations Under Other Statutory Provisions Unaffected
  Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to interfere with or affect: a. Any Roman Catholic diocesan corporation incorporated under an act entitled...
• Section 16:15a-1 - "Russian Church In America" And "Russian Orthodox Church" Defined
  As used in this chapter, "Russian Church in America" means that group of churches, cathedrals, chapels, congregations, societies, parishes, committees and other religious organizations...
• Section 16:15a-2 - Incorporation
  Any unincorporated Russian Orthodox church in this State may incorporate by executing a certificate setting forth the name by which such church shall be...
• Section 16:15a-3 - Powers
  Every Russian Orthodox church incorporated or reincorporated under this chapter shall have all of the powers enumerated in section 16:1-4 of this Title except...
• Section 16:15a-4 - Governing Bodies And Authorities
  Every Russian Orthodox church in this State, whether heretofore or hereafter incorporated, and whether incorporated or reincorporated pursuant to this chapter or any other...
• Section 16:15a-5 - Trustees; Powers
  The trustees of every Russian Orthodox church shall have the custody and control of all the temporalities and property, real and personal, belonging to...
• Section 16:15a-6 - Reincorporation Of Russian Orthodox Church
  Any heretofore incorporated Russian Orthodox church may reincorporate under the provisions of this chapter by filing in the office of the clerk of the...
• Section 16:16-1 - Incorporation
  Any Ruthenian Catholic church or congregation in this state may incorporate in the following manner: The Catholic bishop appointed by the Pope of Rome...
• Section 16:16-2 - Reincorporation Of Religious Organizations
  Any religious organization incorporated under and by virtue of any law of this State may organize under the provisions of this article. Its trustees...
• Section 16:16-3 - Trustees; Powers
  The persons so executing and acknowledging such certificate shall be the trustees of the corporation and they and their successors shall, by the name...
• Section 16:16-4 - Trustees; Succession; Tenure; Vacancies
  The successor in office for the time being of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic bishop in communion with the Roman See and appointed by the...
• Section 16:16-5 - President
  The Ruthenian Catholic bishop appointed by the Pope as aforesaid shall, by virtue of his office, be the president of the board of trustees...
• Section 16:16-6 - Secretary
  The corporation may elect annually, or at such periods as it may deem fit, one of such trustees to be the secretary of such...
• Section 16:16-7 - Corporate Action By Majority Of Members; Sanction Of Bishop
  The proceedings, orders, acts, contracts or obligations of a majority of all the members of the corporation, but not of a less number, upon...
• Section 16:16-8 - Dissolution Not Caused By Failure Of Succession Of Trustees
  Any corporation created under or by virtue of the provisions of this article shall not be dissolved by failure to continue the succession of...
• Section 16:16-9 - Incorporation
  Any Ruthenian Catholic diocese in this state or of the United States, of the Catholic Greek rite in the United States, may incorporate in...
• Section 16:16-10 - Powers Of Trustees
  The first trustees of such corporation and their successors shall, by such name of incorporation, be able and capable unlimitedly to: Acquire, purchase, receive,...
• Section 16:16-11 - Trustees; Succession; Tenure; Vacancy
  The persons so executing and acknowledging such certificate shall be the first trustees of the corporation. The successor in office for the time being...
• Section 16:16-12 - President And Treasurer
  The bishop or administrator of the diocese shall, by virtue of his office, be the president and treasurer of the corporation, unless the board...
• Section 16:16-13 - Secretary
  The corporation may elect annually, or at such periods as it may deem fit, one of its trustees to be the secretary. He shall...
• Section 16:16-14 - Corporate Action By Majority Of Members; Sanction Of Bishop
  The proceedings, orders, acts, contracts or obligations of a majority of all the members of such corporation, but not of a less number, upon...
• Section 16:16-15 - Dissolution Not Caused By Failure Of Succession Of Trustees
  Any corporation created under or by virtue of the provisions of this article shall not be dissolved by failure to continue the succession of...
• Section 16:16-16 - Incorporations Under General Law Unaffected
  Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to interfere with or affect any Ruthenian Greek Catholic parochial corporation, incorporated or which may be...
• Section 16:17-1 - Corporation Continued; Trustees; Election; Term Of Office; Corporate Officers Members Of Board
  The New Jersey State Association of Spiritualists, incorporated under authority of an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate...
• Section 16:17-2 - Powers Of State Association
  The trustees of the New Jersey State Association of Spiritualists, or their successors, shall have power to: a. Have perpetual succession by its corporate...
• Section 16:17-3 - Incorporation; Meeting Called; Notice
  Any Spiritualist society, church or congregation in this state, referred to in this article as "church" , which is a branch of and organized...
• Section 16:17-4 - Meeting; Qualifications Of Voters And Officers; Matters Decided; Trustees
  The members of the church having met at the time and place appointed, the meeting shall be called to order by one of the...
• Section 16:17-5 - Certificate; Contents; Approval Of State Association; Filing And Recording
  The chairman and clerk of the meeting shall make, sign and acknowledge before any person authorized to take the acknowledgment and proof of deeds...
• Section 16:17-6 - Powers Of Trustees; Constitution And By-laws
  For such incorporated church the trustees elected in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall have power to: Have perpetual succession by its...
• Section 16:17-7 - Trustees; Vacancies
  The enrolled members of any such church who are of the full age of twenty-one years may assemble at a duly called regular or...
• Section 16:17-8 - Changes; Corporate Title; Number Of Trustees
  Any church incorporated under this article may, at any regular or special meeting of its enrolled members duly called for that purpose, change its...
• Section 16:17-9 - Officers; Tenure; Duties
  The officers of the church shall be the president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, and such other officers as the by-laws provide. They shall...
• Section 16:17-10 - Ministers
  The ordained, licentiate and associate ministers of the church shall be called, elected and removed and their salaries be fixed as the church shall...
• Section 16:17-11 - Church Subject To State Association
  Any church organized under the provisions of this article shall be subject to the constitution, by-laws and rules of the New Jersey State Association...
• Section 16:17-12 - Spiritualist Churches; Reincorporation
  Any church which is a branch of and organized in accordance with the provisions of the constitution, by-laws and regulations of the New Jersey...
• Section 16:19-1 - General Law Applicable
  The provisions of article 1 of chapter 1 of this title (s. 16:1-1 et seq.), with all its penalties, privileges and advantages shall be...
• Section 16:19-2 - Incorporation
  Any association enumerated in section 16:19-1 of this Title may, by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the association, held...
• Section 16:19-3 - Board Of Trustees; Name; Terms; Certified Copy Of Proceedings Filed
  The board of directors of any such association may elect 8 or more persons, of whom, when elected by the directors of any Young...
• Section 16:19-4 - Powers Of Board Of Trustees
  The board of trustees shall, by their corporate name, have power to: a. Make and use a common seal, and alter or renew the...
• Section 16:19-5 - Trustees; Filling Vacancies
  When a vacancy shall occur in such board of trustees, by reason of the death or resignation of any trustee or his removal from...
• Section 16:19-6 - President; Powers And Duties
  The trustees shall elect at their first meeting one of their number to be the president of the board of trustees. The president may...
• Section 16:19-7 - Secretary, Treasurer And Other Officers
  The board of trustees shall elect or appoint as soon after their election as practicable, from their number, a secretary and treasurer, and may...
• Section 16:19-8 - Property And Income; Application
  The board of trustees shall devote the real and personal property held by them, and the income thereof, only to the purposes of the...
• Section 16:19-9 - Property Of Association Formed Under This Chapter
  Any such association availing itself of the benefits of this chapter, and having at that time any real or personal property, shall convey and...
• Section 16:20-1 - Definitions, Coptic Orthodox Church
  1. As used in this act: "Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese" refers to that person who is serving as bishop for that diocese...
• Section 16:20-2 - Applicability Of Act
  2. This act applies to any unincorporated church in this State and any unincorporated diocese or archdiocese located in whole or in part in...
• Section 16:20-3 - Procedure For Becoming Incorporated As A Church
  3. An unincorporated church in this State may become incorporated as a church by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate of incorporation, stating the...
• Section 16:20-4 - Procedure For Reincorporating A Church
  4. Any church heretofore incorporated in this State, with the consent of the Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese in which its place of...
• Section 16:20-5 - Incorporation Of Diocese, Archdiocese
  5. Any diocese or archdiocese of the Coptic Orthodox Church located in whole or in part in this State may become incorporated as a...
• Section 16:20-6 - Trustees Of Church
  6. The Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese in which the place of worship of an incorporated church in this State is located and...
• Section 16:20-7 - Division Of Parish, Transfer Of Assets
  7. Whenever a Coptic Orthodox parish shall be duly divided by the Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Diocese in which the parish is located...

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