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MN Stat § 315.20 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.20 — Cathedrals.

315.20 CATHEDRALS. Subdivision 1. Formation. A cathedral for which a constitution and statutes are adopted by the diocesan convention of a diocese in this state of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America may form a corporation, as follows: The cathedral shall have a certificate prepared containing: (1) the name and location of the cathedral; (2) the persons who constitute the chapter of the cathedral, and their names, of which chapter the bishop of the diocese and the wardens and vestry members of the cathedral congregation shall be members; and (3) the date of the adoption by the diocesan convention of the constitution and statutes of the cathedral. Subd. 2. Certificate, by whom signed. The certificate must be signed and acknowledged by the bishop of the diocese and by a majority of the members of the chapter, and recorded with the county recorder of the county where the cathedral is located. Subd. 3. Certificate filed; powers. Upon the signing, acknowledging, and recording of the certificate with the county recorder of the county of its location, the cathedral becomes a corporation under the name in its certificate. Through its chapter, it may transact the business of the cathedral. In its corporate name, it may acquire or receive, by purchase, gift, grant, devise, or bequest, any property, real, personal, or mixed, and hold, sell, transfer, mortgage, convey, loan, let, or otherwise use the property for the use and benefit of the cathedral if the use does not contravene the laws and usages of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States of America of this state. It may not divert any gift, grant, or bequest from the purpose specified in writing by the donor or devisor. It may not sell, convey, or mortgage its church or church site, except with the consent of the bishop, in writing, and when first authorized to do so at a meeting of the chapter called for that purpose, nor in contravention of the canons of the diocese or of the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States of America. Subd. 4. Government. The chapter of the cathedral shall be governed by the constitution and statutes which have been adopted for it by the diocesan convention and any amendments to them as provided in them. History:  (7982, 7983, 7984) 1915 c 46 s 1-3; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1984 c 618 s 25,26; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1; 2005 c 4 s 49,50
MN Stat § 315.21 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.21 — Incorporation.

315.21 INCORPORATION. Subdivision 1. Method. If a church or religious society does not wish to form a corporation under sections 315.01 to 315.20, at least three members may become a corporation by adopting and signing a certificate containing: (1) its name, general purpose and plan of operation, and its location; and (2) the terms of admission, qualification for membership, selection of officers, filling vacancies, and way it is to be managed. Subd. 2. Certificate recorded. The certificate must be recorded with the county recorder of the county of its location. Subd. 3. Existing corporations. An existing corporation created by special law, which does not desire to incorporate under sections 315.01 to 315.20, may reincorporate under this section, when authorized by a three-fourths vote of its members present and voting at a stated meeting called to consider reincorporation. History:  (7985) RL s 3150; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.22 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.22 — Existing Churches May Incorporate; Reincorporation; Property To Vest.

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
MN Stat § 315.23 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.23 — Incorporation Of Diocesan Council, Synod, Presbytery, Conference, Association, Consociation, Or Similar Organizations.

315.23 INCORPORATION OF DIOCESAN COUNCIL, SYNOD, PRESBYTERY, CONFERENCE, ASSOCIATION, CONSOCIATION, OR SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS. Subdivision 1. Method. A diocesan council, synod, presbytery, conference, association, consociation, or other general organization for ecclesiastical or religious purposes, existing in a church or religious denomination in this state, and composed of or representing several parishes, congregations, or particular churches under church law, may form a corporation. To do so, it must adopt a canon or resolution stating: (1) its purpose to form a corporation; (2) its name and its general purposes and powers, consistent with law; (3) the name of the church or religious denomination to which the body organizing the corporation belongs, and the district or territorial limits of its jurisdiction; (4) the number and official titles of the officers through whom it will act, by whom and how the officers are elected or appointed, the length of their terms, and their general duties, powers, and authority; and (5) the names and addresses of the first officers of the corporation. Subd. 2. Canon or resolution, approval, recording. A copy of the resolution or canon, certified by the presiding officer of the body adopting it, verified by the affidavit of its secretary or clerk, and endorsed with the certificate of the attorney general that it conforms to law, must be filed with the county recorder of the county where the body is located. The county recorder shall record it, including the endorsement, and issue a certificate that the law has been complied with and the body is incorporated according to law. The county recorder shall keep an alphabetical index of these corporations. Subd. 3. Amendment of canon or resolution. The body organizing the corporation or its successor may amend or modify the resolution under which the corporation was formed. It may change its jurisdictional limits, the number, official titles, terms of office, or the manner of electing or appointing officers, or their duties, powers, and authority, or the purposes and powers of the corporation. The change must be consistent with law, and not impair trusts or vested rights of property. The amendment must be made by resolution or canon adopted at two successive sessions of the body, so certified, verified, and recorded with the county recorder where the body is located. History:  (7987, 7988) RL s 3152, 3153; 1984 c 618 s 27; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1; 1994 c 438 s 8
MN Stat § 315.24 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.24 — Special Powers.

315.24 SPECIAL POWERS. A corporation may receive in trust for a parish, mission, local church society, or congregation, incorporated or not, property given, granted, transferred, devised, or bequeathed to it for the use of the parish, mission, local church society, or congregation, for religious, charitable, or educational purposes. The corporation may hold the property, and its rents, issues, and profits, until the parish, mission, local church society, or congregation demands its conveyance. From time to time, when required, the corporation shall account for the rents, issues, and profits. Property now held in trust by a person, corporation, or trustees for the use and benefit of the religious body forming a corporation under section 315.23, or its parishes, missions, societies, congregations, or local churches, may, with the consent of the beneficiary, be conveyed and the title to it vested in the corporation as the successor in the trust. The corporation may not create a lien on or encumber property held by it in trust. History:  (7989) RL s 3154; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.25 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.25 — Annual Meeting, Notice Of, Place.

315.25 ANNUAL MEETING, NOTICE OF, PLACE. A corporation whose membership in part resides in other states may hold its annual meetings at points outside the state as it may, from time to time, designate at a previous annual meeting, or it may authorize its president to designate the place. At least three months before the time of the annual meeting, notice of the time and place must be given by publication in the recognized organ of the corporation, if it has one, or by other notice appropriate to inform the membership. History:  (7990) RL s 3155; 1984 c 543 s 18; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.26 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.26 — Consolidation Of Parishes, Congregations, Or Churches.

315.26 CONSOLIDATION OF PARISHES, CONGREGATIONS, OR CHURCHES. A diocesan council, synod, presbytery, conference, association, consociation, or other general organization for ecclesiastical or religious purposes composed of or representing several parishes, congregations, or particular churches, and incorporated under Minnesota law, may unite or consolidate with one or more other diocesan councils, synods, presbyteries, conferences, associations, consociations, or other general organizations for ecclesiastical or religious purposes, or may with one or more such other societies form one new society for ecclesiastical or religious purposes. When the united or consolidated society, or new society, is incorporated, the former body may convey and transfer its property to the new corporation according to law. History:  (7991) 1917 c 107 s 1; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.27 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.27 — Procedure For Incorporation.

315.27 PROCEDURE FOR INCORPORATION. Two or more societies of the classes named in section 315.26 may form a corporation by adopting a canon or resolution and having a copy certified, verified, approved by the attorney general, and recorded as provided by section 315.23. The canon or resolution may be adopted (1) in joint session by representatives, delegates, and others entitled to vote at the regular meetings of the societies, respectively, for the year in which the canon or resolution is adopted or (2) in joint session by committees elected or appointed by the societies, respectively, for that purpose. History:  (7992) 1917 c 107 s 2; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.28 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.28 — Privileges.

315.28 PRIVILEGES. A corporation formed under sections 315.26 to 315.29 has the same powers and rights as corporations formed under section 315.23. History:  (7993) 1917 c 107 s 3; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.29 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.29 — Right To Hold Property.

315.29 RIGHT TO HOLD PROPERTY. A corporation organized under sections 315.26 to 315.29 shall hold property conveyed or transferred to it for the same use and subject to the same trusts and conditions as the corporation conveying or transferring the property. History:  (7994) 1917 c 107 s 4; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.30 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.30 — Amendment Of Certificate.

315.30 AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE. A religious corporation may change its certificate by a resolution adopted, certified, acknowledged, and recorded in the same way as the original. The change must be consistent with law. When recorded, the amended certificate replaces the original. History:  (7995) RL s 3156; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.31 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.31 — Amendment Of Articles Of Incorporation.

315.31 AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. A religious society, religious association, or religious corporation existing under section 315.21, upon compliance with sections 315.31 to 315.33, may change its articles of incorporation as to any matter that could have been included in the original articles of incorporation. It may not change matters relating to the management or the conduct of affairs of a cemetery owned or controlled by it if the cemetery is managed or conducted according to sections 306.69 to 306.72. History:  (7995-1) 1925 c 357 s 1; 1931 c 232 s 1; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.32 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.32 — Trustees, Powers; Certificate, Recording.

315.32 TRUSTEES, POWERS; CERTIFICATE, RECORDING. The board of trustees or other governing body of a religious organization under section 315.21 may, by unanimous vote of its members, alter or amend the articles of incorporation under section 315.31, when authorized by resolution so to do at a special meeting of the religious organization. The meeting must be called for that expressly stated purpose, and a majority of the members of the religious organization must be present. The resolution must be passed by vote of a majority of the members present and voting. The board of trustees or other governing body shall record the resolution in a certificate executed and acknowledged by its president and secretary, or by its other presiding and recording officers, under the corporate seal of the religious organization. The certificate is presumptive evidence of the facts stated in it. The certificate must be recorded with the county recorder of the county where the religious organization is located. The amendment is effective on filing. History:  (7995-2) 1925 c 357 s 2; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1984 c 618 s 28; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1; 2005 c 4 s 51
MN Stat § 315.33 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.33 — Method Provided Is Additional.

315.33 METHOD PROVIDED IS ADDITIONAL. Sections 315.31 to 315.33 do not change the right of religious organizations to alter or amend their articles of incorporation in any way now authorized by law. History:  (7995-3) 1925 c 357 s 3; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.34 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.34 — Consolidation Of Religious Corporations.

315.34 CONSOLIDATION OF RELIGIOUS CORPORATIONS. Two or more incorporated churches, congregations, parishes, or religious societies, or an incorporated parish and an incorporated cathedral, may consolidate and reorganize as a single church, congregation, parish, cathedral, or religious society by complying with the provisions of this chapter for the formation of a church, congregation, parish, cathedral, or society. History:  (7996) RL s 3157; 1913 c 42 s 1; 1935 c 265 s 1; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.35 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.35 — Resolution; Notice.

315.35 RESOLUTION; NOTICE. Before action is taken under section 315.34, a resolution authorizing consolidation and reorganization must be adopted by at least two-thirds of the members present and voting at a meeting of each of the churches, congregations, parishes, parish and cathedral, or societies called for that purpose. Notice of the time, place, and object of the meeting must be given on four successive Sabbaths on which the society statedly meets for public worship, immediately before the time specified for the meeting. Proof of the notice, meeting and resolution may be made by affidavit of one of the officers or members cognizant of the facts and must be recorded with the certificate of incorporation. History:  (7997) RL s 3158; 1935 c 265 s 2; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.36 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.36 — Meetings; Notice; Organization; Powers.

315.36 MEETINGS; NOTICE; ORGANIZATION; POWERS. After each society has adopted the resolution, notice must be given stating the time and place of the meeting of the united congregation of the societies. The notice must be posted where each society statedly meets for worship at least 15 days before the meeting. The minister or another officer of the organization shall give public notice of the meeting at the usual Sabbath service at least one week before the meeting. The notice for the meeting must be signed by the clerk of the board of trustees, vestry, or chapter of each church, or by a person authorized by the board to sign it. At the meeting of the united congregation, held according to the notice, a name must be adopted for the new corporation. The meeting shall, by a majority vote, determine the form of organization of the new corporation and fix the qualifications for trustees or vestry members and the number, which must be at least three and not more than 12. A new board of trustees, vestry and wardens or chapter and wardens must be elected by a majority of the members present. The board of trustees, vestry or chapter not including wardens must be divided into three classes. One class must be elected and hold office until the next annual meeting of the congregation, one class until its second annual meeting, and one class until its third annual meeting. After that, the terms of office of the trustees or vestry members must be three years and until their successors are elected and have qualified. If a vacancy occurs in the board of trustees, vestry, or chapter, at the next meeting of the congregation, board of trustees, chapter or vestry a successor must be elected to fill the unexpired term. After the meeting the chair and secretary shall make a certificate as prescribed by section 315.01, 315.17, or 315.20, as the case may be. The certificate, proof by affidavit of proper notice of the meeting, and the affidavits provided for in section 315.35 must be recorded with the county recorder of the county where the place of worship of the consolidated society is located. When it is filed, the societies become merged into a new corporation under the name specified in the certificate. The new corporation has the rights, powers, and privileges, and is liable for the obligations of the corporations consolidated. The property of the original corporation vests in the new corporation. If a will or other instrument takes effect after the consolidation and names any of the original corporations as a legatee, devisee, or beneficiary of a trust, the new corporation shall take under the instrument and is entitled to the money, property, and benefits that the original corporation would have received under the instrument, unless the instrument expressly provides otherwise. History:  (7998) RL s 3159; 1913 c 42 s 2; 1935 c 265 s 3; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 315.37 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.37 — When Society Ceases To Exist; Disposal Of Property.

315.37 WHEN SOCIETY CEASES TO EXIST; DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY. When a religious society under the control or supervision of a superior body ceases to exist or to maintain its organization, its real and personal property vests in and is transferred, as provided in section 315.38, to the next higher governing or supervising corporate body of the same denomination. History:  (7999) RL s 3160; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.38 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.38 — Dissolution, Application, Hearing.

315.38 DISSOLUTION, APPLICATION, HEARING. Upon application to the district court of the county where the society was located by a member of the body in which the property is to vest, under section 315.37, the court shall appoint a time for hearing the application. Three weeks' published and posted notice of hearing must be given, and any additional notice the court may direct. If, at the hearing, it appears that a proper case exists under section 315.37, the court shall direct a transfer to be made through a trustee appointed by it for that purpose. Affidavits of the notice may be filed in the proceedings, and they are evidence in actions and proceedings in the courts of the state. History:  (8000) RL s 3161; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.39 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.39 — Title To Real Property.

315.39 TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY. When it appears to a district court of this state that, before 1907, real property was conveyed to a bishop, or a right reverend bishop, or an archbishop, or a most reverend archbishop of any religious denomination or church in an official capacity as bishop and to successors in office, or as trustee under an oral or written trust for an incorporated or unincorporated body, in this state, whether the grantee is designated as trustee in the conveyance or not, and the consideration for it was paid by the body, and at the time of the conveyance the bishop's religious denomination or church had its central or supreme government in a foreign country and was the country's state church, and later the country's form of government was changed and the religious denomination or church ceased to be its state church, and the record title to the real property is in the name of the grantee or a successor in office, and the body, whether incorporated or not, possesses the real property and has possessed it for ten or more years under a claim of ownership, the district court shall, in an action brought by the body, make a decree vesting the title, both legal and equitable, to the real property in the body. An unincorporated body must incorporate under Minnesota law before the commencement of the action. Actions under this section must be brought in the same way as actions to quiet title to real property in this state, as provided in chapters 557 to 561. History:  (8002-1, 8002-2) 1927 c 120 s 1,2; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1