Section 10. The overseers or trustees of each monthly meeting of the people called Friends, or Quakers, shall be a body corporate for the purpose of taking and holding in succession gifts and grants of real or personal property made to the use of such meeting or to the use of any preparative meeting belonging thereto; and they may manage or convey such property according to the terms and conditions of such gifts and grants, and may prosecute or defend any action relative to the same; but the income thereof to any one of such meetings for the uses aforesaid shall not exceed five thousand dollars a year. Such corporation may hold funds in trust and apply the income thereof to the improvement or embellishment of any cemetery owned or controlled by it or to the care, preservation or embellishment of any lot or its appurtenances.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters
Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses
Section 1 - Corporate Bodies, Church Officers As
Section 2 - Corporate Bodies; Status of Ministers and Lay Officials
Section 3 - Management of Trusts; Appointment of Trustees; Rules and Regulations
Section 4 - Corporate Bodies, Trustees As
Section 5 - Succession of Parsonage Land
Section 6 - Regulation of Conveyances of Church Land
Section 7 - Conveyance of Land by Minister
Section 8 - Committees to Settle Accounts of Officers
Section 10 - Overseers or Trustees of Monthly Meeting of Quakers as Corporation
Section 11 - Monthly Meeting of Quakers; Appointment of Trustees; Powers and Duties
Section 12 - Unincorporated Religious Societies; Powers
Section 13 - Reports of Trustees
Section 14 - Removal of Trustees
Section 16 - Regulation of Solicitation of Funds for Charitable Purposes on Public Ways
Section 18 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 18 to 35
Section 19 - Registration of Charitable Organization; Filing of Statement; Contents
Section 19a - Designation as Veterans' Charitable Organization
Section 20 - Exemption From Registration
Section 23 - Solicitation Disclosures
Section 25 - Records; Public Inspection
Section 27 - Reciprocal Agreements
Section 28 - Deceptive Practices Prohibited
Section 29 - Rules and Regulations
Section 30 - Investigation of Violations
Section 31 - Foreign Organizations or Persons; Service of Process
Section 32 - Violations; Revocation of Registration; Fines and Penalties; Injunctions
Section 33 - Fiduciary Capacity
Section 34 - Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations; Membership; Investments
Section 35 - Paid Solicitations and Solicitors; Violations; Fine