Title 27, Religion

§ 105. Election of trustees. The trustees shall be elected at a public meeting of the society or congregation, held at their usual place of worship, on 10 days notice by advertisements at the front door of such place and by a plurality of votes of the members present.26 Del. Laws…

§ 106. Vacancies among trustees. Other trustees may be elected, and vacancies filled by election as prescribed in § 105 of this title and the election of a successor to any trustee shall remove that trustee from office.26 Del. Laws, c. 89, § 6; Code 1915, § 2169; Code 1935, § 247…

§ 107. Appointment of chair; powers and duties; access to records. The trustees shall choose 1 of their number as chair. The chair shall have custody of the seal and all books and papers of the corporation, shall make fair entries therein of all the proceedings of the trustees an…

§ 108. Appointment and duties of treasurer. The trustees may also choose 1 of their number as treasurer and may require the treasurer to give security. The treasurer shall receive and account for all the money of the corporation. If no treasurer be chosen, the chair shall receive…

§ 109. Registry of births, deaths, burials and marriages; certified copies as evidence. The registry kept in any religious corporation’s books of marriages, births, deaths or burials shall be evidence in all courts. A copy of any entry, certified under the corporate seal and hand…

§ 110. Gifts or grants to religious corporations. Every religious corporation may take and hold by gift, devise, will, deed or lease real estate or moneys, securities or other things of value to be laid out in real estate and personal property of all kinds and may alien, mortgage…

§ 111. Validating certain religious corporations. All religious corporations of this State incorporated prior to March 14, 1911, under the General Corporation Law and all religious corporations of this State incorporated since March 10, 1899, under Chapter 39 of the Revised Code …

§ 112. Conveyances and grants to ecclesiastical officers. No grant, conveyance, devise or lease of personal or real estate to, nor any trust of such personal or real estate for the benefit of any person, and that person’s successor or successors in any ecclesiastical office, shal…

§ 113. Conveyances and grants to religious corporations. No grant, conveyance, devise or lease of any real estate dedicated or appropriated or intended to be dedicated or appropriated, to purposes of religious worship for the use of any congregation or society shall vest any righ…

§ 114. Formation of Protestant Episcopal Church corporations. The rector, wardens and vestrymen of any Protestant Episcopal Church, on certifying their name or style as provided in § 101 or § 103 of this title, shall be a corporation with the franchise, rights and powers therein …

§ 115. Formation of Roman Catholic Church corporations. In every congregation of the Roman Catholic Church, the ordinary of the diocese, the pastor of the congregation for the time being, according to the practice and discipline of the Church, 1 other person annually designated b…

§ 116. Additional powers of Roman Catholic Church corporations; records; pastor as president. Every Roman Catholic Church corporation, in addition to the powers now possessed by religious corporations by virtue of the laws of this State, may appoint the hour and place of the meet…

§ 117. Filling vacancies among corporators of Roman Catholic Church corporations; change of name. (a) (1) If at any time 1 of the annually elected corporators of a Roman Catholic Church corporation dies, resigns or becomes disqualified by ceasing to be a pewholder of the church, …

§ 118. Conveyances to Roman Catholic Church corporations; prior gifts to inure to benefit of newly formed corporations. Any person, individual or corporation holding land or goods and chattels or any interest therein in trust for any particular church or congregation, church soci…

§ 301. Formation. Any 10 or more persons associated together for the promotion of the interests of Sunday schools, or as a Young Men’s Christian Association for the promotion of religious knowledge and improvement, may become incorporated by the election of managers, not less tha…

§ 302. Powers. The managers elected shall, upon the recording of the certificate, become a body corporate by the name adopted and certified. The corporation shall have succession for 20 years, may sue and be sued and may purchase, receive, hold and enjoy property, real and person…

§ 303. Election and powers of managers; appointment of officers. The officers of the corporation, in addition to the managers, shall be a president, who shall be 1 of the managers, a secretary, a treasurer, and such other officers as the bylaws prescribe. The managers shall be el…

§ 304. Revocation of corporate powers. The General Assembly reserves the power at any time to revoke the corporate powers of any association incorporated under this chapter.13 Del. Laws, c. 419, § 4; Code 1915, § 2189; Code 1935, § 2496; 27 Del. C. 1953, § 304;

§ 501. Annual return in Sussex County. In Sussex County, the teachers or persons having charge of a Sabbath school shall return to the County Council in March, annually, the manner in which any appropriation has been applied and the vouchers therefor. In default of such return, t…

§§ 701-704. Permit for religious camp meetings; composition of permit commission; powers and duties of commission; issuance of permit; regulations; fee; holding meetings without permit; exceptions; penalties [Repealed]. Repealed by 77 Del. Laws, c. 273, § 1, effective May 21, 201…