16:1-43.3 - Consolidation agreement;Ā provisions for organization, etc
16:1-43.3.Ā Consolidation agreement;Ā provisions for organization, etc.
The consolidation agreement, and the constitution and statutes or by-laws, of the consolidated corporation, or either thereof, may provide, consistently with the doctrine, government, discipline and usages of the church or religiousĀ denomination to the jurisdiction of which the consolidating corporations areĀ subject, for:
(a) The organization, constitution, number, qualifications, classificationsĀ and term of office, according to classes or otherwise, of its trustees, chapterĀ or governing body, committees and officers, their designation ex officio asĀ persons for the time holding specified clerical offices or offices orĀ membership in specified religious bodies or organizations or committeesĀ thereof, or the manner in which, and the persons or bodies or organizations orĀ committees thereof by which, they or some of them are to be elected orĀ appointed, or perpetuated in office, and may be suspended or removed, and theĀ qualifications and constitution of the membership of the congregation;
(b) The regulation, management and administration of its temporal affairs and property, endowments and other funds, and creating, defining, limiting and regulating the powers of the trustees, chapter or governing body, committees and officers, and of the congregation, and the number necessary to constitute aĀ quorum at any meeting of such governing body, committees, and congregation.
L.1944, c. 143, p. 382, s. 3.
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The consolidation agreement, and the constitution and statutes or by-laws, of the consolidated corporation, or either thereof, may provide, consistently with the doctrine, government, discipline and usages of the church or religiousĀ denomination to the jurisdiction of which the consolidating corporations areĀ subject, for:
(a) The organization, constitution, number, qualifications, classificationsĀ and term of office, according to classes or otherwise, of its trustees, chapterĀ or governing body, committees and officers, their designation ex officio asĀ persons for the time holding specified clerical offices or offices orĀ membership in specified religious bodies or organizations or committeesĀ thereof, or the manner in which, and the persons or bodies or organizations orĀ committees thereof by which, they or some of them are to be elected orĀ appointed, or perpetuated in office, and may be suspended or removed, and theĀ qualifications and constitution of the membership of the congregation;
(b) The regulation, management and administration of its temporal affairs and property, endowments and other funds, and creating, defining, limiting and regulating the powers of the trustees, chapter or governing body, committees and officers, and of the congregation, and the number necessary to constitute aĀ quorum at any meeting of such governing body, committees, and congregation.
L.1944, c. 143, p. 382, s. 3.
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