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Michigan Statutes, Title 458

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Title 458, ECCLESIASTICAL CORPORATIONS

20 chapters · 170 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 458170 Ch 265-of-1949, UNITED MISSIONARY CHURCHES16 Ch 27-of-1905, WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCHES15 Ch 26-of-1907, METHODIST PROTESTANT CHURCHES14 Ch 11-of-1899, METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHES13 Ch 29-of-1901, FREE METHODIST CHURCHES13 Ch 40-of-1899, PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCHES13 Ch 54-of-1899, BAPTIST CHURCHES12 Ch 265-of-1909, UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES12 Ch 53-of-1901, CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES11 Ch 94-of-1899, EVANGELICAL CHURCHES10 Ch 42-of-1842, BAPTIST CONVENTION9 Ch 148-of-1901, CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCHES9 Ch 82-of-1899, REFORMED CHURCHES IN AMERICA8 Ch 47-of-1901, CONSOLIDATION OF CONGREGATIONAL CHUR…3

13 sections·Filtered byTitle 458✕Ch 40-of-1899✕

Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.251 Protestant Episcopal church; incorporation, procedure; body corporate.
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Sec. 1. It shall be lawful for any 6 or more persons, professing attachment to the Protestant Episcopal church, to execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, 1 or more duplicate articles of agreement, in writing, whereby they shall agr…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.252 Protestant Episcopal church; articles, contents; name; location; vestry members.
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Sec. 2. The articles shall contain: First, The name of the proposed church; Second, The township or city and county in which it is located; Third, The number of vestry members, not less than 6 nor more than 15, who shall have charge of the temporal affairs of such church, and the…
Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.253 Filing articles; acquisition of title to property.
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Sec. 3. Such articles of agreement, when duly signed and acknowledged, shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce; and it shall not be lawful for such church to acquire the title to any property until such articles are so filed.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.254 First meeting; calling, notice; right to vote; election of vestry members.

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Sec. 4. Any 3 or more persons who have signed any such articles may call the first meeting of such church, at such time and place as they may see fit, by publishing a notice for 10 days previous to the time of such meeting in some newspaper published in the city or township in wh…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.255 Subsequent meetings; right to vote; annual and special meetings, notice; election of vestry members, classification; rector to preside; records.

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Sec. 5. At all subsequent meetings, the right to vote shall be confined to such persons as shall be authorized by the laws of the church to vote at parish meetings. The annual meeting shall take place during the month of January. Public notice shall be given of the time and place…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.256 Wardens; secretary, treasurer; meetings of vestry, presiding officer, quorum, vacancy.

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Sec. 6. The vestry members shall annually choose by ballot from their own body 2 members, who shall be communicants, to be wardens. They shall also appoint a secretary and a treasurer, who may be members of their own body, and they may employ such other agents and servants as may…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.257 Powers of vestry; owner of pew or slip.

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Sec. 7. The vestry shall have the care and management of all the temporal affairs of such church, and they shall have authority, in the corporate name, to lease or to purchase and hold such real estate as shall be reasonably necessary for a church building, chapel, parish house, …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.258 Record of proceedings; inspection, evidence.

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Sec. 8. The vestry shall keep a record of their proceedings, which, together with a record of the meetings of the congregation of the parish, shall, at all times, be open to the inspection of any officer of the parish, and of all persons qualified to vote at the annual meeting of…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.259 Reorganization and extension of corporate life; procedure.

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Sec. 9. Any Protestant Episcopal church whose corporate term of existence has expired, or may be about to expire, or may hereafter expire, by limitation, may be reorganized under this act, so as to become subject to the provisions thereof, whenever the wardens and vestry members,…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.260 Amendment of articles; procedure; existing amendments declared valid.

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Sec. 10. Any church incorporated under this act may, at any annual meeting, or at any special meeting, called for that purpose, by a vote of the majority of those present qualified to vote and voting on the question, amend its articles of agreement in any manner not inconsistent …

Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.261 Repeal; saving clause.

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Sec. 11. The following entitled acts are hereby repealed, viz.: "An act to provide for the organization of Protestant Episcopal churches," approved February seventeenth, 1857; "An act to amend sections 4, 5, 6 and 7 of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the organization of Pr…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.262 Reorganization and incorporation under act, procedure; officers.

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Sec. 12. Any Protestant Episcopal church, heretofore organized under any other general law than those mentioned in the last preceding section, may reorganize so as to become subject to the provisions of this act. The wardens and vestry members, de jure or de facto, of such church…

Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.263 Cathedral; ex-officio rector.

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Sec. 13. Should it be desirable to use the church building and any other buildings or property of any Protestant Episcopal church heretofore or hereafter organized and existing in this state, as and for a cathedral, it shall be lawful for such church, at its first meeting, or at …