Title 458, ECCLESIASTICAL CORPORATIONS

Sec. 4. The persons desiring to organize such church shall execute and acknowledge, before any persons authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, articles of association in writing, whereby they shall agree to organize a church which shall be governed by the discipline, rules a…

Sec. 5. Said articles of association shall contain the following items: First. The name of said church. Second. The township, village or city, and the county in which it shall be located. Third. An agreement to worship and labor together according to the discipline, rules and usa…

Sec. 6. Triplicate originals of the articles shall be delivered to the Michigan corporation and securities commission. If the commission finds that the articles conform to the law, it shall, when all fees and charges have been paid as required by law, file 1 of the original artic…

Sec. 7. Said church, when so organized, shall be in all matters of church government and ecclesiastical polity subject to the discipline, usages and ministerial appointments of the United Missionary church, as from time to time authorized by the general conference of said church,…

Sec. 8. The secular affairs of said church shall be managed by a board of trustees elected and organized according to the provisions of the book of discipline of the United Missionary church, who shall hold their office until their successors are elected and accept their trust un…

Sec. 9. Said corporation may have a seal and alter the same at pleasure. It may, in its corporate name, sue and be sued in all courts of this state. It shall have power to acquire, hold, sell, move and convey property, both real and personal, in accordance with this act, and it m…

Sec. 10. The trustees shall have power, according to the terms and limitations of the discipline of the United Missionary church, as from time to time authorized and declared by the annual conference of said church, to purchase, build, repair, lease, rent, mortgage or encumber it…

Sec. 11. Whenever it shall become necessary for the payment of debts or with a view of reinvestment, to make a sale of any real estate belonging to said church, the local conference of said church may, by a vote of a majority of all the members of said quarterly conference and th…

Sec. 12. In all cases where property belonging to any church society incorporated under the provisions of this act has been abandoned or is no longer used for the purpose for which said property was acquired or for the benefit of said church society, and has not been conveyed by …

Sec. 13. It shall be lawful for any church organized under the provisions of this act, by a 2/3 vote of the local conference of said church, to alter or amend its articles of association in any manner not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, or the book of discipline of …

Sec. 14. In all proceedings or suits that may arise, or be brought in any of the courts of this state, touching or in any way concerning churches that may be incorporated under this act, all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith shall be interpreted and construed in s…

Sec. 15. It is further provided, that the execution by the acting trustees of said corporation, in proper form, of any deed, mortgage, note, bond or other obligation or contract of said corporation, shall be prima facie evidence of the proper appointment of said trustees, and tha…

Sec. 16. Act No. 225 of the Public Acts of 1899, being sections 458.501 to 458.514, inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of 1948, is hereby repealed: Provided, however, That notwithstanding the repeal thereof, all rights of every kind and nature now held or enjoyed under and by virtue…

Sec. 1. Whenever any Congregational church, in connection with which is an already incorporated religious or ecclesiastical society, at any regular or called meeting, shall express by ballot and by a 2/3 vote of its qualified members present and voting a desire to assume said cor…

Sec. 2. At the meeting so called, the following question shall be put to vote: Shall the title to all the property of the (name of society) be vested in the .................................. Congregational church of ............................, Michigan, and the said society be…

Sec. 3. Act No. 47 of the Public Acts of 1901, entitled "An act for the consolidation in Congregational churches of an ecclesiastical society with its church," is hereby repealed: Provided, however, That notwithstanding the repeal thereof, all rights of every kind and nature now …