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315.22 EXISTING CHURCHES MAY INCORPORATE; REINCORPORATION;
PROPERTY TO VEST.
A church or society organized as such, and not incorporated, may become a corporation
by executing, acknowledging, and having recorded with the proper officers a certificate of
incorporation under this chapter. When it does, and when any existing religious corporation
reincorporates under this chapter, property and franchises belonging to the society, or original
corporation vest in the corporation so organized. Rights in pews possessed by members at the time
of reorganization are not impaired. The board of trustees or other governing body of a reorganizing
corporation, or their survivors, when requested by the governing board of the new corporation,
shall convey to the new corporation, by sufficient deed, all property owned by it. The conveyance
must recite the fact of reorganization, and pass title to the property described in it possessed by
the corporation in whose behalf it is executed. It is prima facie evidence of the facts stated in it.
History: (7986) RL s 3151; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
PROPERTY TO VEST.
A church or society organized as such, and not incorporated, may become a corporation
by executing, acknowledging, and having recorded with the proper officers a certificate of
incorporation under this chapter. When it does, and when any existing religious corporation
reincorporates under this chapter, property and franchises belonging to the society, or original
corporation vest in the corporation so organized. Rights in pews possessed by members at the time
of reorganization are not impaired. The board of trustees or other governing body of a reorganizing
corporation, or their survivors, when requested by the governing board of the new corporation,
shall convey to the new corporation, by sufficient deed, all property owned by it. The conveyance
must recite the fact of reorganization, and pass title to the property described in it possessed by
the corporation in whose behalf it is executed. It is prima facie evidence of the facts stated in it.
History: (7986) RL s 3151; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
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