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2013 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 16 - CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS, RELIGIOUS
- Section 16:1-1 - Incorporation of religious societies or congregations.
- Section 16:1-2 - Certificate; contents; recording; effect on corporate existence
- Section 16:1-3 - Certain religious societies authorized to file record with secretary of state
- Section 16:1-4 - Powers
- Section 16:1-5 - Corporate action by majority of members; presence in person; validity
- Section 16:1-6 - Property; power of sale; authorization
- Section 16:1-7 - Land for cemetery or burial purposes; acquisition and disposition
- Section 16:1-8 - Election of trustees; tenure
- Section 16:1-10 - Annual meeting; notice; procedure
- Section 16:1-11 - Trustees of corporations incorporated under special act; qualifications
- Section 16:1-12 - Change of time and place of annual meeting of church incorporated under special act
- Section 16:1-13.1 - Election of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, other officers; dual capacity as officer and trustee; tenure
- Section 16:1-13.2 - Vacancies
- Section 16:1-13.3 - Qualifications of trustees and officers; members entitled to vote
- Section 16:1-14 - Convening of corporation and execution of contracts
- Section 16:1-15 - Secretary; duties; delivery of records when office expires; access to records
- Section 16:1-16 - Treasurer; duties; delivery of records when term expires
- Section 16:1-18 - Corporate changes; name; number of officers or trustees; tenure
- Section 16:1-19 - Certificate of change; filing
- Section 16:1-20 - Consolidation; procedure
- Section 16:1-21 - Effect of consolidation on property, powers, rights, privileges and franchises
- Section 16:1-22 - Sale or disposition of trust property; law applicable; disposition of proceeds
- Section 16:1-23 - Sale and conveyance of trust property by trustees when discharged of trust by donor
- Section 16:1-24 - Conveyance of real estate to church or religious society by its corporate name
- Section 16:1-25 - Diversion of estate, property and revenue; action
- Section 16:1-26 - Disposition of funds for school purposes; action to determine disposition
- Section 16:1-27 - Effect of incorporation of unincorporated society on property previously held
- Section 16:1-28 - Saving of rights under charters granted by Great Britain
- Section 16:1-29 - Title extended to singing classes and Sunday schools
- Section 16:1-30 - Church, religious society or denomination; corporate entity; suits
- Section 16:1-31 - Organizations or committees to aid feeble congregations; additional powers
- Section 16:1-32 - Incorporation; powers
- Section 16:1-33 - Property subject to regulations of state organization
- Section 16:1-34 - Incorporation; powers; corporate action
- Section 16:1-35 - Trustees; election
- Section 16:1-36 - Officers; duties
- Section 16:1-37 - Incorporation; certificate; trustees; tenure
- Section 16:1-38 - Account; trustees to furnish; audit
- Section 16:1-39 - Property of extinct churches
- Section 16:1-40 - Incorporation; certificate; contents and filing
- Section 16:1-41 - Trustees; holders of designated offices as
- Section 16:1-42 - Trustees; filling vacancies
- Section 16:1-43 - Powers
- Section 16:1-43.1 - Consolidation authorized
- Section 16:1-43.2 - Consolidation agreement
- Section 16:1-43.3 - Consolidation agreement; provisions for organization, etc.
- Section 16:1-43.4 - Approval and adoption of agreement
- Section 16:1-43.5 - Certificate of adoption; filing, notice of adoption
- Section 16:1-43.6 - Effect of consolidation
- Section 16:1-43.7 - Gifts, legacies, etc., to vest in consolidated corporation; continuation of separate constituents
- Section 16:1-43.8 - Vested rights and privileges of constituent corporations; continuation of corporate existence
- Section 16:1-43.9 - Powers of consolidated corporation
- Section 16:1-43.10 - Copy of consolidation agreement to be evidence; records
- Section 16:1-44 - Registration of name with secretary of state; fee
- Section 16:1-45 - Certificate of registration; certificate as evidence
- Section 16:1-46 - Infringement on name; misdemeanor
- Section 16:1-47 - Directors of corporations for support of ministers; increase; tenure
- Section 16:2-1 - Incorporation
- Section 16:2-2 - Certificate; filing and recording
- Section 16:2-3 - Powers; rules and regulations
- Section 16:2-4 - Conveyances or written contracts; requisites
- Section 16:2-5 - Devise or bequest; not defeated by misnomer
- Section 16:2-6 - Organization for business; president
- Section 16:2-7 - Trustees; accounting; action by majority
- Section 16:2-8 - Property; powers concerning
- Section 16:2-9 - Trustees; election; tenure; notice of meeting
- Section 16:2-10 - Trustees; increase in number
- Section 16:2-11 - Law applicable
- Section 16:2-12 - Incorporation under this article
- Section 16:2-13 - Consolidation
- Section 16:2-14 - Change of name
- Section 16:2-15 - Certificate of change; recording
- Section 16:2-16 - Dissolution
- Section 16:2-17 - Incorporation; powers and privileges
- Section 16:2-18 - Change of name; certificate; filing
- Section 16:2-19 - Disposition of property; reversionary interests; liens
- Section 16:2-20 - Dissolution of church
- Section 16:2-21 - Action for dissolution; disposition of property
- Section 16:3-1 - Incorporation; meeting for
- Section 16:3-2 - Meeting; facts to be determined; election of trustees; tenure
- Section 16:3-3 - Certificate; contents; recording
- Section 16:3-4 - Powers; sale of property subject to approval of members; by-laws
- Section 16:3-5 - Trustees; filling vacancies; election
- Section 16:3-6 - Reincorporation under this chapter
- Section 16:3-7 - Changes; title; number of trustees
- Section 16:3-8 - Right to consolidate
- Section 16:3-9 - Consolidation; agreement
- Section 16:3-10 - Consolidation; meeting; election of trustees; tenure
- Section 16:3-11 - Certificate; contents; filing and recording; consolidation effected on; property
- Section 16:4-1 - Incorporation
- Section 16:4-2 - Trustees; powers
- Section 16:4-3 - Trustees; succession; filling vacancies
- Section 16:4-4 - President; powers and duties
- Section 16:4-5 - Corporate action by majority vote of members
- Section 16:4-6 - Revival of corporation dissolved for failure to continue succession of trustees
- Section 16:5-1 - Incorporation
- Section 16:5-2 - Incorporation validated
- Section 16:5-3 - Certain provisions of title extended to Lutheran Church Congregations
- Section 16:5-4 - Lutheran Synod or District; formation
- Section 16:5-5 - Board of trustees
- Section 16:5-6 - Certificate; filing; fee
- Section 16:5-7 - Contents of certificate
- Section 16:5-8 - Written certificate required; acknowledgment
- Section 16:5-9 - Constitution
- Section 16:5-10 - By-laws
- Section 16:5-11 - Officers and committees
- Section 16:5-12 - Powers of corporation
- Section 16:5-13 - Strife and division in congregation; settlement; title and disposition of property
- Section 16:5-15 - Manner of incorporation of Lutheran Church Congregation; organizational meeting; notice
- Section 16:5-16 - Resolution of incorporation; number of trustees; election; terms
- Section 16:5-17 - Trustees; terms; vacancies
- Section 16:5-18 - Corporate name; determination; resolution; required vote
- Section 16:5-19 - Certificate of incorporation; contents; acknowledgment
- Section 16:5-20 - Certificate; filing; recording; effect
- Section 16:5-21 - Members; voting rights
- Section 16:5-22 - Powers
- Section 16:5-23 - Meetings; by-laws
- Section 16:5-24 - Affiliation with constituent synod or district; acceptance of act by previously incorporated churches; certificate
- Section 16:5-25 - Merger; consent; certificate
- Section 16:5-26 - Disbanding or ceasing to function; passage of title to synod or district
- Section 16:5-27 - Combinations, consolidations or mergers
- Section 16:6-1 - Extinct Free Methodist churches or societies; disposition of property
- Section 16:6-2 - Extinct church or society defined
- Section 16:6-3 - Conference; powers with relation to extinct churches or religious societies
- Section 16:7-1 - Division of property on division or separation in unincorporated Society of Friends
- Section 16:7-2 - Title to property; appointment of trustee
- Section 16:7-3 - Trustee's title
- Section 16:7-4 - Death of trustee; appointment of successor
- Section 16:7-5 - Certified copy of minutes of meeting; recording
- Section 16:7-6 - Contents of minutes
- Section 16:8-1 - Certain provisions of title extended to German Reformed churches
- Section 16:10A-1 - The United Methodist Church; power to assume and use name; existing rights, powers, etc., not affected
- Section 16:10A-2 - Incorporation of local churches; resolution; meeting; notice; name; trustees
- Section 16:10A-3 - Certificate of incorporation; form and content
- Section 16:10A-4 - Incorporation of society, conference, board, association or other organization connected with church
- Section 16:10A-5 - Alteration or amendment of certificate of incorporation
- Section 16:10A-6 - By-laws
- Section 16:10A-7 - Powers
- Section 16:10A-8 - Board of trustees; membership; election; term; vacancy
- Section 16:10A-9 - Powers and duties of trustees
- Section 16:10A-10 - Merger of two or more local churches
- Section 16:10A-11 - Real property of local church; sale, transfer or mortgage; procedure and conditions
- Section 16:10A-12 - Proceeds from sale or mortgage not available for current church expense
- Section 16:10A-13 - Written acknowledged consent to sale or transfer of real property; effect
- Section 16:10A-14 - Abandonment of local church
- Section 16:10A-15 - Voters; qualifications; majority vote
- Section 16:11-1 - Incorporation; election of trustees; tenure
- Section 16:11-2 - Certificate of incorporation; contents; acknowledgment; recording
- Section 16:11-3 - Powers; sale, conveyance or mortgage; authorization by members
- Section 16:11-4 - Certain powers subject to authority of session or spiritual officers
- Section 16:11-5 - Voters; qualifications; list of
- Section 16:11-6 - Succession of trustees of church having incorporated board
- Section 16:11-7 - Trustees; change of number
- Section 16:11-8 - Meetings of trustees; president to convene
- Section 16:11-9 - Secretary; minutes and seal
- Section 16:11-10 - Treasurer; election and duties
- Section 16:11-11 - Treasurer; election by trustees; duties and powers
- Section 16:11-12 - Auditing committee
- Section 16:11-13 - Vacancies of trustees or officers; filling
- Section 16:11-14 - Annual meetings of congregation
- Section 16:11-15 - Special meetings of congregation
- Section 16:11-16 - Annual reports; statements
- Section 16:11-17 - Records; trustees or members may examine
- Section 16:11-18 - Incorporation of presbytery; powers
- Section 16:11-19 - Trustees; succession; election; tenure
- Section 16:11-20 - President
- Section 16:11-21 - Reincorporation under other provisions; resolution; certificate recorded
- Section 16:11-22 - Trustees; change of number and tenure; provisions for election of officers; resolution; certificate recorded
- Section 16:11-23 - Property of dissolved church; disposition of property and proceeds
- Section 16:11-24 - Certified copy receivable in evidence
- Section 16:12-1 - Incorporation; meeting
- Section 16:12-2 - Certificate; acknowledgment; contents; filing and recording
- Section 16:12-3 - Powers
- Section 16:12-4 - Sale, conveyance, mortgage or lease of real estate; consent of bishop and standing committee
- Section 16:12-5 - By-laws
- Section 16:12-6 - Members and officers
- Section 16:12-7 - Rector; filling vacancy
- Section 16:12-8 - Meetings of vestry
- Section 16:12-9 - Vestry; quorum
- Section 16:12-10 - Annual parish election; notice; officers; qualifications of voters; ballot; quorum; by-law regarding wardens or vestrymen
- Section 16:12-11 - Election of officers; tenure
- Section 16:12-12 - Warden or vestryman; filling vacancy
- Section 16:12-13 - Special parish meetings
- Section 16:12-14 - Changes; corporate title, number of vestrymen, tenure, annual meeting
- Section 16:12-15 - Consolidation
- Section 16:12-16 - Property of extinct parish
- Section 16:12-17 - "Parish" as meaning "congregation"
- Section 16:12-18 - Incorporation
- Section 16:12-19 - Powers; holding property in trust
- Section 16:12-20 - Trustees; certificate of incorporation; filing; powers
- Section 16:12-21 - Management of funds; property in trust
- Section 16:12-22 - Statement of proceedings and account; removal of trustee; filling vacancy
- Section 16:12-23 - Division of property on division of diocese
- Section 16:12-24 - Change of corporate names; filing certificate
- Section 16:12-25 - Effect of change on property rights and liabilities
- Section 16:12-26 - Establishment of trust fund
- Section 16:12-27 - Investment in trust fund
- Section 16:12-28 - Name of fund; management; incorporation; powers of corporation
- Section 16:12-29 - Authority to retain investments
- Section 16:12-30 - Reinvestments; securities in which funds may be invested
- Section 16:12-31 - Dividends
- Section 16:13-1 - Incorporation
- Section 16:13-2 - Powers; execution of deeds
- Section 16:13-3 - Succession of trustees; tenure; decision of disputes
- Section 16:13-4 - President; corporate meetings
- Section 16:13-5 - Minutes; seal; records
- Section 16:13-6 - Access to corporate records
- Section 16:13-7 - Corporate action by majority vote; right to vote
- Section 16:13-8 - Renunciation of charter upon incorporation under this chapter
- Section 16:13-9 - Division of congregations and property
- Section 16:13-10 - Renunciation of separate charters and joint incorporation
- Section 16:13-11 - Chapter extended to True Reformed Dutch or Christian Reformed churches; incorporations validated
- Section 16:13-12 - Rights and customs confirmed
- Section 16:13-13 - Sections inapplicable to Reformed churches
- Section 16:13-14 - Extinct church or religious society; vesting of property; reversionary interests
- Section 16:13-15 - Extinct church or religious society defined; dissolution; transfer of property
- Section 16:13-16 - Action for dissolution
- Section 16:13-17 - Management or sale of property by classis
- Section 16:14-1 - Reformed Episcopal Church; incorporation and powers
- Section 16:15-1 - Incorporation
- Section 16:15-2 - Trustees; powers
- Section 16:15-3 - Succession of trustees; tenure; vacancy
- Section 16:15-4 - President
- Section 16:15-5 - Corporate action by majority of members; sanction of bishop
- Section 16:15-6 - Reincorporation after failure of succession; property
- Section 16:15-7 - Reincorporation of religious associations
- Section 16:15-8 - Conduct of affairs; conveyances and mortgages without approval of congregation
- Section 16:15-9 - Incorporation
- Section 16:15-10 - Trustees; tenure; vacancies; succession
- Section 16:15-11 - Powers of trustees
- Section 16:15-12 - President and treasurer
- Section 16:15-13 - Secretary
- Section 16:15-14 - Corporate action by majority of members; sanction of bishop
- Section 16:15-15 - Dissolution not caused by failure of succession of trustees
- Section 16:15-16 - Reincorporation under this article
- Section 16:15-17 - Incorporations under other statutory provisions unaffected
- Section 16:15A-1 - "Russian Church in America" and "Russian Orthodox Church" defined
- Section 16:15A-2 - Incorporation
- Section 16:15A-3 - Powers
- Section 16:15A-4 - Governing bodies and authorities
- Section 16:15A-5 - Trustees; powers
- Section 16:15A-6 - Reincorporation of Russian Orthodox church
- Section 16:16-1 - Incorporation
- Section 16:16-2 - Reincorporation of religious organizations
- Section 16:16-3 - Trustees; powers
- Section 16:16-4 - Trustees; succession; tenure; vacancies
- Section 16:16-5 - President
- Section 16:16-6 - Secretary
- Section 16:16-7 - Corporate action by majority of members; sanction of bishop
- Section 16:16-8 - Dissolution not caused by failure of succession of trustees
- Section 16:16-9 - Incorporation
- Section 16:16-10 - Powers of trustees
- Section 16:16-11 - Trustees; succession; tenure; vacancy
- Section 16:16-12 - President and treasurer
- Section 16:16-13 - Secretary
- Section 16:16-14 - Corporate action by majority of members; sanction of bishop
- Section 16:16-15 - Dissolution not caused by failure of succession of trustees
- Section 16:16-16 - Incorporations under general law unaffected
- Section 16:17-1 - Corporation continued; trustees; election; term of office; corporate officers members of board
- Section 16:17-2 - Powers of state association
- Section 16:17-3 - Incorporation; meeting called; notice
- Section 16:17-4 - Meeting; qualifications of voters and officers; matters decided; trustees
- Section 16:17-5 - Certificate; contents; approval of state association; filing and recording
- Section 16:17-6 - Powers of trustees; constitution and by-laws
- Section 16:17-7 - Trustees; vacancies
- Section 16:17-8 - Changes; corporate title; number of trustees
- Section 16:17-9 - Officers; tenure; duties
- Section 16:17-10 - Ministers
- Section 16:17-11 - Church subject to state association
- Section 16:17-12 - Spiritualist churches; reincorporation
- Section 16:19-1 - General law applicable
- Section 16:19-2 - Incorporation
- Section 16:19-3 - Board of trustees; name; terms; certified copy of proceedings filed
- Section 16:19-4 - Powers of board of trustees
- Section 16:19-5 - Trustees; filling vacancies
- Section 16:19-6 - President; powers and duties
- Section 16:19-7 - Secretary, treasurer and other officers
- Section 16:19-8 - Property and income; application
- Section 16:19-9 - Property of association formed under this chapter
- Section 16:20-1 - Definitions, Coptic Orthodox Church
- Section 16:20-2 - Applicability of act
- Section 16:20-3 - Procedure for becoming incorporated as a church
- Section 16:20-4 - Procedure for reincorporating a church
- Section 16:20-5 - Incorporation of diocese, archdiocese
- Section 16:20-6 - Trustees of church
- Section 16:20-7 - Division of parish, transfer of assets
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