Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 24 Corporations And Associations (Nonprofit) - Section 24.12.010 Corporations sole -- Church and religious societies

§ 24.12.010. Corporations sole -- Church and religious societies

Any person, being the bishop, overseer or presiding elder of any church or religious denomination in this state, may, in conformity with the constitution, canons, rules, regulations or discipline of such church or denomination, become a corporation sole, in the manner prescribed in this chapter, as nearly as may be; and, thereupon, said bishop, overseer or presiding elder, as the case may be, together with his successors in office or position, by his official designation, shall be held and deemed to be a body corporate, with all the rights and powers prescribed in the case of corporations aggregate; and with all the privileges provided by law for religious corporations.

[1915 c 79 § 1; RRS § 3884.]

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