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Chapter 67 - Parishes and Religious Societies
Section 1 - Continuance of Existing Corporations - Section 1. Every religious society heretofore established or organized under...
Section 2 - Existing Societies; Limitation or Modification of Rights, Privileges, Etc. - Section 2. Religious societies, incorporated or unincorporated, shall continue to...
Section 3 - Status of Church Privileges - Section 3. Churches connected and associated in public worship with...
Section 4 - By-Laws - Section 4. A religious society may make by-laws consistent with...
Section 5 - Membership; Rights and Restrictions - Section 5. A person belonging to such society shall continue...
Section 6 - Membership; Women and Non-Residents - Section 6. A religious society may admit women to membership...
Section 7 - Meetings; Election of Officers; Tenure; Vacancies - Section 7. Every incorporated religious society shall hold an annual...
Section 8 - Method of Election of Officers - Section 8. Moderators for meetings held for the choice of...
Section 9 - Powers of Moderator - Section 9. The moderator shall have like powers with the...
Section 10 - Assessors or Standing Committee; Election; Tenure - Section 10. The assessors or standing committee may be elected...
Section 11 - Management of Prudential Affairs - Section 11. The prudential affairs of such societies shall be...
Section 12 - Procedure When Officers Fail to Call Meeting - Section 12. If there are no assessors or committee, or...
Section 13 - Warning of Meetings - Section 13. Meetings shall be warned in the manner provided...
Section 14 - Warrant for Meetings; Contents - Section 14. The assessors or committee shall insert in the...
Section 15 - Presiding Officer During Selection of Moderator; Oath of Office - Section 15. The clerk or, if there is no clerk...
Section 16 - Collector - Section 16. If the person who is chosen collector is...
Section 17 - Appropriations - Section 17. A religious society may, at its annual meeting...
Section 18 - Assessments on Pews and Property of Members; Liability of Members for Parish Debts - Section 18. No parish or religious society shall assess taxes...
Section 19 - Sale or Removal of Pews or Meeting-House - Section 19. A religious society may, under sections thirty-three and...
Section 20 - ''religious Society'' and ''society'', Defined - Section 20. The terms ''religious society'' and ''society'' in the...
Section 21 - Incorporation of Religious Societies - Section 21. An unincorporated religious society, if it contains ten...
Section 22 - Organization Meeting; Certificate of Incorporation, Filing, Etc. - Section 22. A justice of the peace, upon written application...
Section 23 - Incorporation of Religious Society - Section 23. Ten or more persons, male or female, who...
Section 24 - Incorporation of Owners of Meeting Houses - Section 24. Persons owning or proposing to build a house...
Section 25 - Restrictions on Amount of Property Owned; Use of Income - Section 25. Such corporation may hold so much real and...
Section 26 - Record of Organization Proceedings; Filing - Section 26. The clerk of such corporation, within ten days...
Section 27 - Use of Funds; Purposes - Section 27. Such corporation, at a legal meeting called for...
Section 28 - Societies Incorporated Under Special Acts; Powers - Section 28. A religious society incorporated under a special act...
Section 29 - Manner of Calling Meetings - Section 29. A meeting for any purpose mentioned in section...
Section 30 - Collection of Assessments - Section 30. Money voted by such corporation may be assessed...
Section 31 - Sale of Pews for Taxes - Section 31. The treasurer, at least three weeks before the...
Section 32 - Notice of Sale; Affidavit of Posting - Section 32. An affidavit, annexed to an original notice or...
Section 33 - New or Rejuvenated Meeting Houses; Acquisition of Funds by Selling Pews - Section 33. Such corporation, for the purpose of building a...
Section 34 - Meeting-Houses Unfit for Worship; Rights of Pew Owners to Compensation - Section 34. The preceding section shall not entitle a person...
Section 35 - Assessments on Pews - Section 35. A corporation for religious purposes may assess upon...
Section 36 - Assessments on Pews; Consent of Owners - Section 36. Such corporation which had erected or procured such...
Section 37 - Purchase of Pews - Section 37. A corporation which votes to avail itself of...
Section 38 - Property Status of Pews - Section 38. Pews shall be personal estate.
Section 39 - Protestant Episcopal Societies; Organization - Section 39. In religious societies belonging to the Protestant Episcopal...
Section 40 - Methodist Episcopal Churches; Organization - Section 40. The trustees of any society of the United...
Section 41 - Powers of Trustees - Section 41. Such trustees may receive, hold and manage all...
Section 42 - First Meeting of Trustees, Etc. - Section 42. The first meeting of such trustees may, upon...
Section 43 - Filing Record of Organization - Section 43. An attested copy of the record of the...
Section 44 - Roman Catholic Churches; Incorporation - Section 44. The Roman Catholic archbishop or bishop of the...
Section 45 - Status and Powers of Archbishop's Successor - Section 45. The successor of any archbishop, bishop, vicar-general or...
Section 46 - Powers of Corporation - Section 46. Such corporation may receive, hold and manage all...
Section 47 - Incorporation of Churches - Section 47. Any church may be incorporated under the following...
Section 48 - Notice of Meeting - Section 48. A notice, signed by one or more of...
Section 49 - Election of Officers - Section 49. At the time and place stated in said...
Section 50 - By-Laws - Section 50. The church may make by-laws and may prescribe...
Section 51 - Certification of Organization to State Secretary - Section 51. The standing committee or other officers shall certify...
Section 52 - Church Members Only to Be Members of Corporation; Associate Membership - Section 52. None but members of such church shall be...
Section 53 - Conveyances by Church Officers - Section 53. The deacons, wardens, trustees or similar officers of...
Section 54 - Conveyances From Religious Societies - Section 54. Any religious society connected with a church so...
Section 55 - Orthodox Churches; Incorporation - Section 55. This section shall apply to all churches, congregations,...
Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses
Section 1 - Corporate Bodies, Church Officers As - Section 1. The deacons, wardens or similar officers of churches...
Section 2 - Corporate Bodies; Status of Ministers and Lay Officials - Section 2. When the ministers, elders or vestry of a...
Section 3 - Management of Trusts; Appointment of Trustees; Rules and Regulations - Section 3. Incorporated and unincorporated religious societies and churches may...
Section 4 - Corporate Bodies, Trustees As - Section 4. Churches or religious societies may appoint trustees, not...
Section 5 - Succession of Parsonage Land - Section 5. The minister of a church or religious society,...
Section 6 - Regulation of Conveyances of Church Land - Section 6. No conveyance of the land of a church...
Section 7 - Conveyance of Land by Minister - Section 7. No conveyance by a minister of land held...
Section 8 - Committees to Settle Accounts of Officers - Section 8. The several churches, other than those of the...
Section 10 - Overseers or Trustees of Monthly Meeting of Quakers as Corporation - Section 10. The overseers or trustees of each monthly meeting...
Section 11 - Monthly Meeting of Quakers; Appointment of Trustees; Powers and Duties - Section 11. Such monthly meeting may appoint, in such manner...
Section 12 - Unincorporated Religious Societies; Powers - Section 12. Unincorporated religious societies shall have like power as...
Section 13 - Reports of Trustees - Section 13. All trustees, whether incorporated or not, who hold...
Section 14 - Removal of Trustees - Section 14. The probate court for the county where a...
Section 16 - Regulation of Solicitation of Funds for Charitable Purposes on Public Ways - Section 16. Every person, association or corporation, domestic or foreign,...
Section 18 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 18 to 35 - Section 18. When used in this section, and in sections...
Section 19 - Registration of Charitable Organization; Filing of Statement; Contents - Section 19. Every charitable organization, except one granted an exemption...
Section 19a - Designation as Veterans' Charitable Organization - Section 19A. Any person or charitable organization established for an...
Section 20 - Exemption From Registration - Section 20. The following shall not be required to file...
Section 22 - Contracts - Section 22. (a) Every contract or agreement between a professional...
Section 23 - Solicitation Disclosures - Section 23. Solicitations by professional solicitors and solicitations by commercial...
Section 24 - Registration by Professional Fund-Raising Counsel, Commercial Co-Venturer, or Professional Solicitor; Annual Financial Report - Section 24. (a) No person shall act as a professional...
Section 25 - Records; Public Inspection - Section 25. Registration statements, applications, reports, contracts or agreements of...
Section 26 - Fiscal Records - Section 26. Every professional fund raising counsel, commercial co-venturer, professional...
Section 27 - Reciprocal Agreements - Section 27. The division may enter into reciprocal agreements with...
Section 28 - Deceptive Practices Prohibited - Section 28. (a) No charitable organization, professional fund-raising counsel, commercial...
Section 29 - Rules and Regulations - Section 29. The director shall from time to time formulate...
Section 30 - Investigation of Violations - Section 30. (a) The attorney general, whenever he believes a...
Section 31 - Foreign Organizations or Persons; Service of Process - Section 31. Any charitable organization or professional fund-raising counsel, commercial...
Section 32 - Violations; Revocation of Registration; Fines and Penalties; Injunctions - Section 32. (a) If any registered charitable organization, professional fund-raising...
Section 33 - Fiduciary Capacity - Section 33. Every person soliciting, collecting or expending, for charitable...
Section 34 - Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations; Membership; Investments - Section 34. Any organization organized under the laws of the...
Section 35 - Paid Solicitations and Solicitors; Violations; Fine - Section 35. Any person who solicits contributions from the public...
Chapter 68a - Limitations Upon the Conduct of Certain Trusts and Corporations Having Charitable Interests
Section 1 - Prohibited Acts of Trusts - Section 1. In the administration of any trust which is...
Section 2 - Distributions of Trusts - Section 2. In the administration of any trust which is...
Section 3 - Applicability of Secs. 1 and 2 - Section 3. The provisions of sections one and two shall...
Section 4 - Prohibited Acts of Corporations - Section 4. No corporation which is a ''private foundation'' as...
Section 5 - Distributions of Corporations - Section 5. Each corporation which is a ''private foundation'' as...
Section 6 - Applicability of Secs. 4 and 5 - Section 6. The provisions of sections four and five shall...
Section 7 - Rights and Powers of Courts and Attorney General Unimpaired - Section 7. Nothing in this chapter shall impair the rights...
Section 8 - References to Internal Revenue Code - Section 8. All references in this chapter to sections of...