Chapter 805 — BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

(805 ILCS 105/113.35) (from Ch. 32, par. 113.35) Sec. 113.35. Merger of foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in this state. Whenever a foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in this State shall be a party to a statutory merger permitted by the laws of the …

(805 ILCS 105/113.40) (from Ch. 32, par. 113.40) Sec. 113.40. Amended authority. A foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in this State shall secure amended authority to do so in the event it changes its corporate name, changes the duration of its corporate existence, …

(805 ILCS 105/113.45) (from Ch. 32, par. 113.45) Sec. 113.45. Withdrawal of foreign corporation. A foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in this State may withdraw from this State upon filing with the Secretary of State an application for withdrawal. In order to procu…

(805 ILCS 105/113.50) (from Ch. 32, par. 113.50) Sec. 113.50. Grounds for revocation of authority. (a) The authority of a foreign corporation to conduct affairs in this State may be revoked by the Secretary of State: (1) Upon the failure of an officer or director to whom interrog…

(805 ILCS 105/113.55) (from Ch. 32, par. 113.55) Sec. 113.55. Procedure for revocation of authority. (a) After the Secretary of State determines that one or more grounds exist under Section 113.50 of this Act for the revocation of authority of a foreign corporation, he or she sha…

(805 ILCS 105/113.60) (from Ch. 32, par. 113.60) Sec. 113.60. Reinstatement following revocation. (a) A foreign corporation revoked under Section 113.55 of this Act may be reinstated by the Secretary of State following the date of issuance of the certificate of revocation upon: (…

(805 ILCS 105/113.65) (from Ch. 32, par. 113.65) Sec. 113.65. Application to corporations heretofore qualified to conduct affairs in this state. Foreign corporations which have been duly authorized to conduct affairs in this State at the time this Act takes effect, for a purpose …

(805 ILCS 105/113.70) (from Ch. 32, par. 113.70) Sec. 113.70. Conducting affairs without authority. No foreign corporation conducting affairs in this state without authority to do so is permitted to maintain a civil action in any court of this State, until such corporation obtain…

(805 ILCS 105/114.05) (from Ch. 32, par. 114.05) Sec. 114.05. Annual report of domestic or foreign corporation. Each domestic corporation organized under this Act, and each foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in this State, shall file, within the time prescribed by …

(805 ILCS 105/114.10) (from Ch. 32, par. 114.10) Sec. 114.10. Filing of annual report of domestic or foreign corporation. Such annual report together with all fees and charges as prescribed by this Act, shall be delivered to the Secretary of State within 60 days immediately prece…

(805 ILCS 105/114.15) Sec. 114.15. Demographic information of directors and officers. (a) Within 30 days after filing its annual AG990-IL Charitable Organization Annual Report, a corporation that reports grants of $1,000,000 or more to other charitable organizations shall post on…

(805 ILCS 105/115.05) (from Ch. 32, par. 115.05) Sec. 115.05. Fees and charges to be collected by Secretary of State. The Secretary of State shall charge and collect in accordance with the provisions of this Act: (a) Fees for filing documents. (b) Miscellaneous charges. (c) Fees …

(805 ILCS 105/115.10) (from Ch. 32, par. 115.10) Sec. 115.10. Fees for filing documents. The Secretary of State shall charge and collect for: (a) Filing articles of incorporation, $50. (b) Filing articles of amendment, $25, unless the amendment is a restatement of the articles of…

(805 ILCS 105/115.15) (from Ch. 32, par. 115.15) Sec. 115.15. Miscellaneous charges. The Secretary of State shall charge and collect: (a) For furnishing a copy or certified copy of any document, instrument, or paper relating to a corporation, or for a certificate, $5. (b) At the …

(805 ILCS 105/115.20) (from Ch. 32, par. 115.20) Sec. 115.20. Expedited service fees. (a) The Secretary of State may charge and collect a fee for expedited services as follows: All filings, copies of documents, and copies of documents of dissolved corporations having a file numbe…

(805 ILCS 105/115.85) (from Ch. 32, par. 115.85) Sec. 115.85. Effect of nonpayment of fees or taxes. (a) The Secretary of State shall not file any articles, statements, certificates, reports, applications, notices, or other papers relating to any corporation, domestic or foreign,…

(805 ILCS 105/115.90) Sec. 115.90. No fees for publishing lists of not-for-profit corporations. Nothing in this Article shall be construed to permit the Secretary of State to charge fees for lists of not-for-profit corporations published as open data under Section 1.25 of the Bus…

(805 ILCS 105/116.05) (from Ch. 32, par. 116.05) Sec. 116.05. Penalties imposed upon corporations. (a) Each corporation, domestic or foreign, that fails or refuses to file its annual report prior to the first day of its anniversary month shall pay a penalty of $3. (b) Any corpora…

(805 ILCS 105/116.10) (from Ch. 32, par. 116.10) Sec. 116.10. Penalties imposed upon officers and directors. Each officer and director of a corporation, domestic or foreign, who fails or refuses within the time prescribed by this Act to answer truthfully and fully interrogatories…

(805 ILCS 105/117.05) (from Ch. 32, par. 117.05) Sec. 117.05. Specific repealer. The "General Not for Profit Corporation Act", approved July 17, 1943, as amended, is repealed. (Source: P.A. 84-1423.)

(805 ILCS 110/0.01) (from Ch. 32, par. 163m) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Religious Corporation Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(805 ILCS 110/35) (from Ch. 32, par. 164) Sec. 35. Any church, congregation or society formed for the purposes of religious worship, may become incorporated in the manner following: By electing or appointing, according to its usages or customs, at any meeting held for that purpos…

(805 ILCS 110/36) (from Ch. 32, par. 165) Sec. 36. The chairman or secretary of such meeting shall, as soon as may be after such meeting, make and file in the office of the recorder in the county in which such congregation, church or society is organized (which shall be recorded …

(805 ILCS 110/37) (from Ch. 32, par. 166) Sec. 37. The term of office of the trustees of any such corporation may be determined by the rules or by-laws of the congregation, church or society. (Source: Laws 1871-72, p. 296.)

(805 ILCS 110/38) (from Ch. 32, par. 167) Sec. 38. A failure to elect trustees at any time shall not work a dissolution of such corporation, but the trustees last elected shall be considered as in office until their successors are elected. (Source: Laws 1871-72, p. 296.)

(805 ILCS 110/39) (from Ch. 32, par. 168) Sec. 39. All elections of trustees after the first, and elections to fill vacancies, may be called and conducted upon such notice and in such manner as may be provided by the rules, usages or by-laws of the congregation, church or society…

(805 ILCS 110/40) (from Ch. 32, par. 169) Sec. 40. A trustee may be removed from office by an election, called and conducted in like manner as elections for trustees, or his office declared vacant for a failure to act, immoral conduct, or for an abandonment of the faith of the co…

(805 ILCS 110/41) (from Ch. 32, par. 170) Sec. 41. Upon the incorporation of any congregation, church or society, all real and personal property held by any person or trustees for the use of the members thereof, shall immediately vest in such corporation and be subject to its con…

(805 ILCS 110/42) (from Ch. 32, par. 171) Sec. 42. Any corporation that may be formed for religious purposes under this Act, or any law of this State, for the incorporation of religious societies, may receive land, by gift, legacy or purchase and may erect or build thereon such h…

(805 ILCS 110/43) (from Ch. 32, par. 172) Sec. 43. The trustees shall have the care, custody and control of the real and personal property of the corporation, subject to the direction of the congregation, church or society, and may, when directed by the congregation, church or so…

(805 ILCS 110/44) (from Ch. 32, par. 173) Sec. 44. Any congregation, church or society, heretofore incorporated under the provisions of any law for the incorporation of religious societies, may become incorporated under the provisions of this act, relative to religious societies,…

(805 ILCS 110/45) (from Ch. 32, par. 174) Sec. 45. Any congregation, church or society, incorporated under this Act, may receive, by grant or legacy, real estate, for the purpose of holding camp meetings, and may make such improvements thereon as they may deem for their comfort a…

(805 ILCS 110/46) (from Ch. 32, par. 175) Sec. 46. The trustees, or any other persons, designated by any such congregation, church or society incorporated under this act, shall have power to publish, print, circulate, sell or give away such religious, Sabbath school and missionar…

(805 ILCS 110/46a) (from Ch. 32, par. 176) Sec. 46a. It shall be lawful for any congregation, church or society, now or hereafter existing in the State of Illinois, and which is under the patronage, control, direction or supervision of any ecclesiastical body, diocesan, or like e…

(805 ILCS 110/46b) (from Ch. 32, par. 177) Sec. 46b. The presiding officer, or duly authorized representative of any ecclesiastical body, or diocesan, or like ecclesiastical officer having jurisdiction agreeably to the laws of any sect or denomination over such ecclesiastical dis…

(805 ILCS 110/46c) (from Ch. 32, par. 178) Sec. 46c. The successor of the presiding officer of any ecclesiastical body, or of the diocesan, or like ecclesiastical officer, shall, by virtue of his office, be for the time being a trustee of such corporation in place of his predeces…

(805 ILCS 110/46d) (from Ch. 32, par. 179) Sec. 46d. A trustee may be removed from office whenever his office shall be declared vacant for a failure to act, or for immoral conduct, or for an abandonment of the faith of the congregation, church, society, sect, or denomination, or …

(805 ILCS 110/46e) (from Ch. 32, par. 180) Sec. 46e. The trustees of every such congregation, church, or society, under the patronage, control, direction, or supervision of any ecclesiastical body, or diocesan, or like ecclesiastical officer, after the same has become incorporate…

(805 ILCS 110/46f) (from Ch. 32, par. 181) Sec. 46f. The trustees of any corporation formed for religious purposes under Sections 46a to 46h, inclusive, of this Act, may receive land in the name of such corporation by gift, legacy or purchase, and make, erect and build thereon, s…

(805 ILCS 110/46g) (from Ch. 32, par. 182) Sec. 46g. Any ecclesiastical body, or diocesan, or like ecclesiastical officer, may elect, or nominate, or appoint, according to the usages, customs, rules, regulations, articles of association, constitution, by-laws or canons of such ec…

(805 ILCS 110/46h) (from Ch. 32, par. 183) Sec. 46h. The word "trustees," whenever used in this act, shall be construed to include wardens, vestrymen, or such other officers as perform the duties of trustee. The words "ecclesiastical body" shall be construed to include any synod,…

(805 ILCS 110/46i) (from Ch. 32, par. 184) Sec. 46i. Any congregation, church or society heretofore incorporated under the provisions of any law for the incorporation of religious societies, may become incorporated under the foregoing sections from 46a to 46h, inclusive, of this …

(805 ILCS 110/46j) (from Ch. 32, par. 185) Sec. 46j. Any church, congregation, society or corporation, heretofore or hereafter formed for religious purposes or for the purpose of religious worship under any of the provisions of this Act or under any law of this State incorporatin…

(805 ILCS 110/46k) (from Ch. 32, par. 186) Sec. 46k. Nothing contained in sections 46a to 46k, inclusive, of this act shall be construed as limiting, restricting, or curtailing the rights or powers of any corporation to take or hold real or personal property which has been or may…

(805 ILCS 110/47) Sec. 47. Liability. (a) The members of a corporation organized under this Act shall not be personally liable for any debt or obligation of the corporation. (b) No director, officer, or trustee of a corporation organized under this Act shall be liable, and no cau…

(805 ILCS 110/50) (from Ch. 32, par. 187) Sec. 50. As used in this section, the term "Eastern Orthodox Church", also known as the "Greek Orthodox Church", includes the following established and operating jurisdictions of that church: (a) The jurisdictions of the Orthodox Ecumenic…

(805 ILCS 110/51) (from Ch. 32, par. 188) Sec. 51. If the usages, customs, rules, regulations or canons of any religious organization require that any subordinate body of that organization obtain the permission of any hierarch, archbishop, bishop, administrator or other official …

(805 ILCS 115/1) (from Ch. 32, par. 188.3) Sec. 1. In any case where any church, congregation or society formed for the purpose of religious worship has filed, or caused to be filed, prior to the effective date of this Act, an affidavit in the office of the recorder of deeds in t…

(805 ILCS 115/2) (from Ch. 32, par. 188.4) Sec. 2. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Religious Corporation Validation Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(805 ILCS 120/0.01) (from Ch. 32, par. 188.90) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Merger of Not For Profit Corporations Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)