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Article 1. Religious Organizations
§35-1-1. Validation of Transfers for Use or Benefit of Religious Organizations - Every conveyance, devise or dedication of land which has heretofore...
§35-1-2. Equitable Title in Contiguous Congregations - Any conveyance, devise or dedication of land for the use...
§35-1-3. Property Not to Be Taken From a Religious Organization - Notwithstanding the provisions of section one of this article, no...
§35-1-4. Insufficient Designations of Beneficiaries or Objects Not to Cause Failure of Trust; Acquisition, Conveyance, etc., of Property - No conveyance, devise, dedication, gift or bequest if the same...
§35-1-5. Trustees for Real and Personal Property -- How Appointed and Removed - The conference, synod, presbytery, convention, association, consultors, official board, or...
§35-1-6. Same -- Recording Order of Appointment; Recording Fee - The trustee or trustees heretofore appointed by the circuit court...
§35-1-7. Same -- May Take and Hold Property - The trustee or trustees of any church, religious sect, society...
§35-1-8. Quantity of Real Estate Trustee May Take and Hold - The trustee or trustees of any individual church, parish, congregation...
§35-1-9. Power of Trustee to Sell, Convey and Encumber Property - The trustee or trustees of any church, religious sect, society,...
§35-1-10. Notice of Conveyance or Lien; Proof Thereof - Before any such conveyance of real estate or instrument creating...
§35-1-11. Proceedings to Prevent Conveyances or Creation of Liens - When any conveyance of, or any lien upon, the real...
§35-1-12. Disposition of Property of Extinct or Dissolved Religious Organization - When any individual church, parish, congregation, or local branch of...
§35-1-13. Validation of Certain Transactions - Where any church, religious sect, society, or denomination, or where...
Article 2. Educational, Fraternal and Charitable Organizations
§35-2-1. Validation of Conveyances, Devises, Gifts and Bequests to Trustees - Where any conveyance, dedication or devise of land, or transfer,...
§35-2-2. Validation of Conveyances, Devises, Gifts and Bequests to Trustees -- Appointment of Trustee; Designation of Beneficiaries and Objects; Administration by Chancery Court Cy Pres - No conveyance, devise, dedication, gift, grant or bequest hereafter made...
§35-2-3. Trustees for Unincorporated Benevolent, Fraternal, etc., Organizations - Any unincorporated benevolent, fraternal, patriotic, literary, temperance, or charitable society,...
§35-2-4. Trustees for Educational or Charitable Institutions - The authorities of any university, college, academy, high school, seminary,...
§35-2-5. Record of Appointment of Trustees; Recording Fee - The trustees heretofore appointed by the circuit court of any...
§35-2-6. Trustees of Certain Organizations to Be Corporations; Powers - The trustees of every institution, society, order, organization, or association...
§35-2-7. Certain Provisions of Article One Applicable to Property of Labor Unions - Sections seven, nine, ten, eleven and twelve of article one...
§35-2-8. Quantity of Real Estate Certain Organizations May Hold - Except as may otherwise be allowed by law, the trustees...
§35-2-9. Distribution of Income by Trust Which Is Deemed a Private Foundation; Prohibitions as to Trusts Which Are Private Foundations or Split-Interest Trusts; Definition of Terms - (a) Distribution of income by trust which is deemed a...
Article 3. Homes and Asylums of Fraternal Orders
§35-3-1. Acquisition of Real Estate by Unincorporated Grand Lodges; Maximum Quantity; Exemption From Taxation - It shall be lawful for the grand lodges of the...
§35-3-2. Regulations and Boards for Government - Any such grand lodge desiring to establish a home or...
§35-3-3. Boards to Be Corporations; Powers - Such boards shall be corporate bodies; and as such shall...
§35-3-4. Corporate Name - Each board of directors, trustees, regents, or commissioners, appointed under...
§35-3-5. Incorporated Grand Lodges May Establish Homes or Asylums - Any grand lodge enumerated in this article, or any similar...
§35-3-6. Provisions of Article Not to Apply to Organizations Connected With Churches - Nothing in this article contained shall authorize the incorporation of...
§35-3-7. Enticement of Residents Away From Fraternal Home; Harboring or Influencing Inmate to Violate Rules; Improper Intercourse With Female Resident of Home - Any person who shall entice or attempt to entice away...
Article 4. Provisions Regarding Particular Fraternal Organizations
§35-4-1. Disposition of Property of Subordinate Lodge of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias or Order of Eagles - If any subordinate lodge of the Independent Order of Odd...
Article 5. Cemeteries
§35-5-1. Appointment of New Trustees for Burial Grounds - Where any conveyance, dedication or devise was made of land...
§35-5-2. Sale of Part of Cemetery; Prohibitions - The trustees of any burial grounds, or any incorporated cemetery...
§35-5-3. Permanent Endowment Funds for Cemetery Associations -- How Created - There is hereby authorized the creation of permanent endowment funds...
§35-5-4. Same — How Invested; Report of Trustee; Disposition of Income - The principal of such permanent endowment fund shall be invested...
§35-5-5. Permanent Endowment Funds for Cemetery Associations -- Trustee Therefor; Appointment; Bond; Compensation; Vacancy - The board of directors of any such cemetery association shall...
§35-5-6. Express Trusts for Perpetual Care of Cemeteries or Burial Lots - Express trusts may hereafter be created for the perpetual care,...
§35-5-7. Requirements for Cemetery Company Contracts - (a) Any cemetery company contract shall: (1) Be written in...
§35-5-8. Abandoned Interment Rights - (a) A cemetery company contract may include a provision whereby...
Article 5A. Perpetual Care of and Trust Funds for Cemeteries
§35-5A-1. Definitions - The following words and phrases as used in this article,...
§35-5A-2. Objects and Purposes - No person shall operate or continue to operate a perpetual...
§35-5A-3. Establishment of Permanent Endowment Care Funds - No person desiring to organize, develop and operate a perpetual...
§35-5A-4. Additional Funding of Permanent Endowment Care Funds - No person shall operate or continue to operate any perpetual...
§35-5A-5. Trustee of the Permanent Endowment Care Funds - The trustee of the permanent endowment care fund shall be...
§35-5A-6. Cemeteries Exempted - This article does not apply to any private or family...
§35-5A-7. Inconsistent Provisions - The provisions and requirements of this article shall take precedence...
§35-5A-8. Penalties for Violation - Any person and any officer, director, agent or employee of...
Article 5B. Preneed Cemetery Company Property, Goods and Services; Related Contracts
§35-5B-1. Definitions - The following words and phrases as used in this article,...
§35-5B-2. Information Filing; Fees, Compliance Agent - On or after July 1, 1993, no person, partnership, firm...
§35-5B-3. Exemptions - The provisions of this article do not apply to: (1)...
§35-5B-4. Deposit in Preneed Trust Required; Who May Serve as Trustee - (a) Each cemetery company shall deposit into an interest bearing...
§35-5B-5. Requirements for Preneed Cemetery Company Contracts - A preneed cemetery company contract shall: (1) Be written in...
§35-5B-6. Identification of Funds - Any funds deposited in the trust account as required by...
§35-5B-7. Corpus of Trust Account and Income to Remain in Preneed Trust Account; Exception - The corpus of the trust account shall remain intact until...
§35-5B-8. Disbursement of Trust Funds Upon Performance of Contract; Mausoleum Construction Required - (a) Upon performance of the preneed cemetery company contract, the...
§35-5B-9. Seller Required to Keep Records - Each seller of a preneed cemetery company contract shall record...
§35-5B-10. Financial Report and Written Assurance Required - (a) The cemetery company shall report the following information to...
§35-5B-11. Inclusion of Property, Goods and Services to Be Delivered Within One Hundred Twenty Days - Nothing in this article prohibits the sale within the contract...
§35-5B-12. Breach of Contract by Seller; Trust to Be Single Purpose Trust - (a) If, after a written request, the seller fails to...
§35-5B-13. Trustee May Rely on Certifications and Affidavits - The trustee may rely upon all certifications and affidavits which...
§35-5B-14. Transfer of Trust Funds to Another Trustee - The seller may, upon notification in writing to the trustee,...
§35-5B-15. Use of Trustee's Name in Advertisements - No person subject to the provisions of this article may...
§35-5B-16. Cemetery Property Maintained by Cemetery Company - With respect to cemetery property maintained by a cemetery company,...
§35-5B-17. Waiver of Article Void - Any provision of any contract which purports to waive any...
§35-5B-18. Violation a Misdemeanor - Any person who violates any of the provisions of this...
§35-5B-19. Abandoned Interment Rights - (a) A preneed cemetery company contract may include a provision...