Article 17.--RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
17-1701.Incorporation; powers and duties.
Any religious society, military or fire company, literary, charitable or
benevolent association, other than colleges, universities, academies or
seminaries, or any grand or subordinate lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons, or of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias,
Knights of Honor, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Independent Order of
Mutual Aid, Good Templars, or any other secret benevolent association or
organization, may by the consent of a majority of its members become
bodies corporate under this act, by filing the charter required by this
act, electing directors or trustees, and performing the things as are
directed in the case of other corporations; and when so organized shall
have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the
restrictions in this act contained, for the objects named in the
charter, and shall have the same power to make bylaws for the regulation
of their affairs as other corporations, and shall have the power to
adopt a bylaw to reduce the number of its directors or trustees to not
less than three, and to incorporate with that number, and to prescribe
their term of office, and to do and perform all other acts in accordance
with the objects of the said lodges respectively. Such directors or
trustees shall not usurp or exercise the functions of the officers in
charge of the spiritual affairs of any society.
History: L. 1879, ch. 89, § 1; March 13; R.S. 1923, 17-1701.
Article 17.--RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
17-1701.Incorporation; powers and duties.
Any religious society, military or fire company, literary, charitable or
benevolent association, other than colleges, universities, academies or
seminaries, or any grand or subordinate lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons, or of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias,
Knights of Honor, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Independent Order of
Mutual Aid, Good Templars, or any other secret benevolent association or
organization, may by the consent of a majority of its members become
bodies corporate under this act, by filing the charter required by this
act, electing directors or trustees, and performing the things as are
directed in the case of other corporations; and when so organized shall
have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the
restrictions in this act contained, for the objects named in the
charter, and shall have the same power to make bylaws for the regulation
of their affairs as other corporations, and shall have the power to
adopt a bylaw to reduce the number of its directors or trustees to not
less than three, and to incorporate with that number, and to prescribe
their term of office, and to do and perform all other acts in accordance
with the objects of the said lodges respectively. Such directors or
trustees shall not usurp or exercise the functions of the officers in
charge of the spiritual affairs of any society.
History: L. 1879, ch. 89, § 1; March 13; R.S. 1923, 17-1701.
Article 17.--RELIGIOUS, CHARITABLE AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
17-1701.Incorporation; powers and duties.
Any religious society, military or fire company, literary, charitable or
benevolent association, other than colleges, universities, academies or
seminaries, or any grand or subordinate lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons, or of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias,
Knights of Honor, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Independent Order of
Mutual Aid, Good Templars, or any other secret benevolent association or
organization, may by the consent of a majority of its members become
bodies corporate under this act, by filing the charter required by this
act, electing directors or trustees, and performing the things as are
directed in the case of other corporations; and when so organized shall
have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the
restrictions in this act contained, for the objects named in the
charter, and shall have the same power to make bylaws for the regulation
of their affairs as other corporations, and shall have the power to
adopt a bylaw to reduce the number of its directors or trustees to not
less than three, and to incorporate with that number, and to prescribe
their term of office, and to do and perform all other acts in accordance
with the objects of the said lodges respectively. Such directors or
trustees shall not usurp or exercise the functions of the officers in
charge of the spiritual affairs of any society.
History: L. 1879, ch. 89, § 1; March 13; R.S. 1923, 17-1701.
