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Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations
Act 40 of 1899 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCHES (458.251 - 458.263)
AN ACT to revise the laws providing for the incorporation of Protestant Episcopal churches; and to impose certain duties upon the department of commerce.
History: 1899, Act 40, Imd. Eff. Apr. 18, 1899 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 472, Eff. Mar. 30, 1983
- Section 458.251 Protestant Episcopal church; incorporation, procedure; body corporate.
- Section 458.252 Protestant Episcopal church; articles, contents; name; location; vestry members.
- Section 458.253 Filing articles; acquisition of title to property.
- Section 458.254 First meeting; calling, notice; right to vote; election of vestry members.
- Section 458.255 Subsequent meetings; right to vote; annual and special meetings, notice; election of vestry members, classification; rector to preside; records.
- Section 458.256 Wardens; secretary, treasurer; meetings of vestry, presiding officer, quorum, vacancy.
- Section 458.257 Powers of vestry; owner of pew or slip.
- Section 458.258 Record of proceedings; inspection, evidence.
- Section 458.259 Reorganization and extension of corporate life; procedure.
- Section 458.260 Amendment of articles; procedure; existing amendments declared valid.
- Section 458.261 Repeal; saving clause.
- Section 458.262 Reorganization and incorporation under act, procedure; officers.
- Section 458.263 Cathedral; ex-officio rector.
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