Sec. 33-264d. Change from religious society to corporation.
Sec. 33-264d. Change from religious society to corporation. (a) Any religious
society may become a religious corporation, when its purpose to do so is determined
by a vote of two-thirds of those members present at a meeting warned and held for that
purpose or by such other vote, but not less than a majority of members present and
voting, as may be provided by the charter or bylaws, by filing, in the office of the
Secretary of the State, such certificate, in proper form executed, as shall be prescribed
by said secretary.
(b) A person who, at the date of the organization of such corporation, is a member
of such religious society shall become a member of such religious corporation, unless
within a reasonable time he notifies the clerk or similar officer of either the religious
society or of the religious corporation that he has elected not to become a member of
the religious corporation.
(c) Upon filing with the Secretary of the State as provided in this section, the separate
existence of the religious society shall cease and thereupon all property, real and personal, and all debts due on whatever account, and all other choses in action, and all and
every other interest, of or belonging to or due to the religious society shall be taken to
and transferred to and vested in the religious corporation without further act and deed.
The religious corporation shall thenceforth be responsible and liable for all the liabilities,
obligations and penalties of the religious society; any claim existing or action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending by or against any such religious society may be prosecuted
as if such incorporation had not taken place, or the religious corporation may be substituted in its place; and any judgment rendered against the religious society may be enforced against the religious corporation. Neither the rights of creditors nor any liens
upon property of the religious society shall be impaired by the incorporation of such
religious society.
(d) Each unvested gift or legacy to a religious society which, pursuant to the provisions of this section has ceased to exist, shall inure to and vest in the religious corporation
which has taken its place.
(1969, P.A. 314, S. 4.)
Cited. 224 C. 797.