Title 454, TRADE AND LABOR ASSOCIATIONS

Sec. 5. Every such corporation shall have full power and authority to provide by its by-laws for the issuing of certificates or shares of stock and for the manner in which the same shall be held and represented. All stockholders of every corporation formed under this act, shall b…

Sec. 6. Every such corporation shall have power to provide by its by-laws for succession to its original membership and for new membership, and, after it is organized, may admit to membership and sell stock to members of labor organizations recognized by the American Federation o…

Sec. 7. The management and control of the business, affairs and property of such corporation shall be vested in said board of trustees, and said board shall have power to borrow any money, and cause to be made and issued any bonds and mortgages authorized by section 4 of this act…

Sec. 1. That any number of persons, not less than 3, may associate themselves together and become incorporated as a builders or a builders and traders exchange for the purpose of providing and regulating suitable rooms or places of meeting; to promote mechanical and industrial in…

Sec. 2. The incorporators shall sign and acknowledge before some person authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, articles of association, of which a copy shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce; and upon the filing of such ar…

Sec. 3. The articles of association shall contain: First, The names of the persons associating in the first instance and their places of residence; Second, The name of such corporation, and the place where its office for the transaction of business is located, and the period for …

Sec. 4. Said corporation by the name adopted by said articles shall have succession and power to sue and be sued and to adopt and use a corporate seal which it may alter and change at pleasure; may receive and hold property and effects, real and personal, by gift, devise or purch…

Sec. 5. Said corporation may constitute and appoint committees of reference and arbitration, and committees of appeals, who shall be governed by such rules and regulations as may be prescribed in the by-laws for the settlement and adjustment of such matters of difference as may b…

Sec. 1. That any number, not less than 15, of workingmen's aid societies, otherwise called Arbeiter Unterstuetzungs Vereine, which have been duly incorporated under the laws of Michigan, may unite or form a union or bund, and become incorporated under the provisions of this act.

Sec. 2. Any such societies, not less than 15, desiring to form an incorporated union or bund under this act, shall delegate 1 of their members, by appropriate resolution, to be entered in the records of such societies, to act in executing articles of association under this act.

Sec. 3. Such delegates may, in behalf of their respective societies, make and execute under their hands and seals, articles of association, which articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer of the state having authority to take acknowledgments of deeds, and …

Sec. 4. Such articles of association shall be filed with the secretary of state, and thereupon such association shall be a body politic and corporate by the name expressed in such articles of association, capable of taking, holding, and disposing of real and personal property, of…

Sec. 5. The affairs of such corporation shall be controlled by a convention of delegates, which shall meet at least once in every 2 years in some suitable place in this state. Such delegates shall be appointed or elected by the respective societies forming such corporation, and t…

Sec. 6. A copy of the records of such articles of association, under the seal of the state, duly certified according to law, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this state, of the existence and due incorporation of such union or bund.

Sec. 1. That any number of persons not less than 5, may associate themselves together and become a body corporate and politic for the improvement of their several social and material interests, the regulation of their wages, the laws and conditions of their employment, the protec…

Sec. 2. Every association formed under the provisions of this act, shall have a corporate name, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, prosecute and defend in all courts of this state; shall hold, pay, sell, assign and lease such real, personal or mixed property as shal…

Sec. 3. The articles of association shall state: First, The names of persons associating in the first instance with their places of residence; Second, The purposes of the association, conforming with the provisions of this act; Third, The corporate name and period of incorporatio…

Sec. 4. Every association incorporated under this act shall have power to make all needful by-laws for its government and enforce the same by the usual penalties and forfeitures; may thereby establish a uniform system of dues, assessments or benefits to be levied upon members, pr…

Sec. 5. The officers of the association shall consist of a president, secretary, treasurer, and board of trustees of not less than 3 members of the association. The president, secretary, and treasurer shall be ex-officio members of said board of trustees.

Sec. 6. The board of trustees shall be the executive board of such association, and shall be charged with the general management of its affairs. Said board shall adopt by-laws for the association, and change the same at pleasure: Provided, That the by-law for the election of the …

Sec. 7. All societies, unions, or associations of tradesmen or laborers actually existing and conducting their affaris under a constitution or articles of association, may become a body corporate and politic, for the general purposes of this act, upon filing a copy of their const…

Sec. 8. The constitution or articles of association of the society, union, or association referred to in the preceding section of this act when filed as therein provided, shall stand in lieu of the articles of incorporation required to be executed under this act and such constitu…

Sec. 9. All moneys, properties, or rights in action, equitably belonging to any society, union, or association at the time the same shall become incorporated under the provisions of this act, shall vest in the corporation so formed, and may be recovered by such corporation in an …

Sec. 1. That any association of trades unions in this state, actually existing and conducting its operations under a constitution or articles of association, may become a body corporate and politic for the general purposes contemplated by Act No. 188 of the Public Acts of 1857, a…

Sec. 2. The constitution or articles of association under which any such association may be organized, may stand in lieu of the articles of agreement required to be executed by section 2 of said act of 1857; and such constitution or articles of association may provide for the ele…

Sec. 3. All moneys, property or rights in action, equitably belonging to any association at the time the same may or shall become incorporated under the provisions of this act, shall vest in the corporation so formed, and may be recovered by such corporation in an action in assum…

Sec. 4. Any corporation that may be formed under the provisions of this act, may be exempted from the operation of the provisions of section 5 of the aforesaid act of 1857, and may choose its officers, and conduct its operations in such manner as may be prescribed by its constitu…

Sec. 1. That associations may be formed and incorporated for the purposes of promoting the mechanic arts in this state, for the relief of distressed mechanics whether members of any such association or otherwise and for such other charitable purposes as may be deemed proper by su…

Sec. 10. Such agreement shall contain: First, The terms and conditions of such consolidation and the disposition of the corporate property of each. Second, The name of the association thereby formed, the place where its office for the transaction of business is established, and t…

Sec. 11. All societies or associations organized as aforesaid, shall have the right to keep and maintain libraries and make all needful by-laws for the good government and regulation of the same.

Sec. 2. That any 6 or more persons residents of this state desirous to become incorporated for the above named objects may execute under their hands and acknowledge before some officer of this state having authority to take the acknowledgment of deeds articles of agreement as her…

Sec. 3. Such articles of association shall contain, First, The names of the persons associating in the first instance and their places of residence, Second, The name of such corporation and the place where its office for the transaction of business is established, and the period …

Sec. 4. Every association formed under this act shall have all the rights, powers and privileges granted by, and shall be subject to all the provisions of chapter number 55, in title number 10 of the Revised Statutes so far as the same are not repugnant to the constitution or to …

Sec. 5. The affairs of such association shall be managed by not less than 5, nor more than 9 trustees to be chosen by the members thereof and to hold office for 1 year and until their successors shall be chosen; a treasurer shall be appointed from the number of trustees, and the …

Sec. 6. No association shall hold any real estate hereafter acquired, for a longer period than 10 years, except such real estate as shall be actually occupied by it in the exercise of its franchises.

Sec. 7. The funds received by such association shall be used in the first instance, or shall be invested, and the income thereof used, after paying necessary expenses, exclusively for the purposes, or some of them, mentioned in the articles of association. (This provision, howeve…

Sec. 8. Any such association whenever required by the attorney general or the legislature shall report to him or them under the oath of at least 2 of its trustees a full and true statement of its condition and affairs; and for any willful neglect to make such report within a reas…

Sec. 9. Any association or society now incorporated for any of the above purposes or hereafter to become incorporated under this act may become consolidated with any one created by virtue of this act into a single corporation which may be done by the vote or resolution of a major…