§ 701. Corporate powers
The worshipful master, senior warden, and junior warden of a lodge of ancient, free, and accepted masons, and the trustees of fraternal, religious, or charitable organizations, elected according to the constitution and bylaws of such lodge or organization, shall have corporate powers, with perpetuity, for the purpose of taking and holding real and personal estate for the use and benefit of such lodge or organization and for other charitable purposes.
Structure Vermont Statutes
Chapter 7 - Property Held for Religious, Fraternal, or Charitable Purposes
§ 702. Mortgage or conveyance of property
§ 703. Estate or interest not vested in person in office or successor
§ 704. No interest vests unless grantee is a corporation
§ 705. Disposition upon death of noncorporate grantee
§ 706. Reconveyance by governor
§ 742. Payment of insurance expenses
§ 781. Property to vest in Vermont Baptist State Convention
§ 782. When property vests; how held
§ 783. Procedure for transferring property
§ 784. Construction with other laws
§ 785. Application to nonaffiliated church
§ 821. Vesting of property of extinct churches
§ 822. Dissolution of church by superior court
§ 823. Property to vest in Vermont Domestic Missionary Society as trustee
§ 824. Application for dissolution
§ 825. Court order transferring property; intention of the law
§ 827. Effect of transfer on reversionary interests or liens
§ 828. Construction with other laws
§ 861. Powers of trustees to hold realty
§ 862. Powers of trustees to convey
§ 863. Powers as to campgrounds
§ 864. Property of extinct circuits or stations
§ 865. Complaint to dissolve circuit or station
§ 866. Recording decrees affecting realty
§ 903. Rights of parish conveying property
§ 904. Transfer of property of extinct parishes and missions
§ 905. Procedure for transferring property
§ 941. Transfer of property of extinct churches
§ 942. Transferred property held in trust