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Ohio Rev Code § 1715.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.19 | Constitution.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Any representative body creating a corporation under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code may provide a constitution, not inconsistent with the statement provided for in such section, or with the law of this state, for the government of such corporation, and may amend such constitution; may determine the number and limit the terms of the members of the chapter or trustees; may provide for and designate a certain number or proportion of ex officio members of the chapter or trustees; may provide for a certain number or proportion of members or trustees to be elected or designated ex officio by other congregations, or bodies, of the same religious denomination in the same diocese or ecclesiastical territory, in addition to the members or trustees to be elected by said representative body itself, said additional classes of members or trustees not constituting a majority of the whole chapter or board, and having otherwise the same qualifications as those elected by said representative body itself; and may determine the ratio of clerical to lay membership upon such chapter or board. Any of such designations and provisions may be included either in the original statement provided for in section 1715.18 of the Revised Code or in such constitution.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.20 | Power of Trustees.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Members of the chapter or trustees of corporations organized under sections 1715.18 and 1715.19 of the Revised Code, if chosen to take charge of any endowment fund, may invest, manage, and dispose of such fund in accordance with the purpose for which it was created, subject to such constitutional regulations as the representative body organizing the corporation prescribes.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.21 | Consolidation With Corporation Created by Representative Body.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When one or more parishes or other religious societies, represented by the same diocesan convention or other representative body of any religious denomination in this state, and incorporated in this state, desire at the same or different times to surrender their corporate existence and franchises, and that representatives and their successors to be elected by their respective congregations be consolidated with any corporation created by the same representative body under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code, under the name, and with the rights, powers, and duties of such last-mentioned corporation created by the same representative body, then the rector, wardens, and vestry, or other known legal trustees, of such parishes or other religious societies, and the members of the chapter or trustees of such corporation created under such section, may enter into an agreement for such consolidation. In such agreement they may prescribe the terms of the consolidation; the time and place for the first meeting of the members of the chapter or the trustees constituting the consolidated corporation; the number or proportion, and time and manner of election, of the members of each of said congregations who are first chosen as members of the chapter or trustees of the consolidated corporation in addition to those provided, designated, or elected by such representative body itself, and as their successors, to succeed to the rights, trusts, duties, and obligations of those members, officers, or trustees who in the separate original organizations held in trust, or in corporate capacity, the estate of such separate original corporations, and to succeed to such other estates as they deem necessary to complete the consolidated corporation. An agreement so made is not valid until it has been submitted to and ratified by separate meetings of the members of each of said parishes or societies in accordance with section 1715.08 of the Revised Code, and has also been submitted to and ratified by such representative body at one of its regular meetings.When a corporation is being or has been merged with or into another or a new corporation as provided in this section, said merger and the consolidated or new corporation resulting therefrom shall be, in substance, governed by section 1715.08 of the Revised Code, so far as such section is applicable, in its nature or by analogy, to said merger and said new corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.22 | Consolidation in Anticipation of Incorporation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If, before the creation of a corporation under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code for the purposes provided in such section, any parish or religious society described in section 1715.21 of the Revised Code has been acting, by authority of its diocesan convention or other representative body, as a part of or in connection with any unincorporated subordinate agency or body chosen, designated, or provided, in whole or in part, by such representative body, for any of the same or similar purposes, then an agreement for consolidation, such as is provided in section 1715.21 of the Revised Code, may be made, in anticipation of the creation of such corporation under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code, between the parties who have been so acting together; but an agreement so made is not valid until submitted and ratified, on both sides, as provided in section 1715.21 of the Revised Code. The statement pursuant to the creation of a corporation under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code, and provided for in such section, shall include the terms of said agreement, and on being signed, certified, attested, acknowledged, filed, and recorded as provided in section 1715.18 of the Revised Code, shall have all the effect of sections 1715.08, 1715.18, and 1715.21 of the Revised Code. A copy of such record, certified by the secretary of state, shall be evidence of such consolidation and of the existence of the new corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.23 | Incorporation of Young Men's Christian Association.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A society of men conducting religious services, performing Christian work, and co-operating for the mutual benefit of the membership shall be known as a young men's Christian association not for profit. When such a society has received the approval of the state young men's Christian association and has filed its application and certificate of approval with the secretary of state and paid a fee of ten dollars, the secretary of state shall issue to it articles of incorporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.24 | Management and Control.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|An incorporated young men's Christian association may adopt a code of regulations for its government.The management and control of the association shall be vested in a board of five or more trustees. They may be elected for a term of not less than one nor more than five years, but the term of office of an equal number must expire each year.The board may provide rules for the business of the association and for the conduct of the association's members, departments, branches, committees, officers, employees, and guests.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.25 | Powers of Young Men's Christian Association.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|An incorporated young men's Christian association may conduct such work and organize such department as its board of trustees deems necessary to attain the purposes of the association, and may organize through such board under such rules as such board adopts, branches which may become co-ordinate parts of the association.The association may receive dues, fees, fines, assessments, and contributions from the members and apply them to their designated use, and may accept legacies, devises, bequests, savings, donations, and other grants and administer them.The association may acquire, hold, convey, lease, encumber by mortgage, improve, and otherwise handle any real or personal property necessary or convenient to carry out its objects, but its property shall not be liable for any obligation contracted without the approval of such board. In all respects it may deal with minors the same as it deals with adults.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.26 | Dissolution of Association.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Subject to the contract rights of its members, an incorporated young men's Christian association may dissolve by a majority vote of the membership and by filing with the secretary of state a copy of the certificate of its action.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.27 | State Organization.

Effective: July 1, 1985|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly|The young men's Christian association in this state may unite and constitute the state young men's Christian association for the supervision and conduct of its work in the state. The associations affiliated with the state association, through their representatives, may make such rules as they consider necessary, choose such officers as they determine, and delegate such duties as they desire to delegate, for the conduct of the work in the state, to a state committee to be chosen as the state association decides.The state association may incorporate under, and exercise the privileges granted by, sections 1715.23 to 1715.27 of the Revised Code. When so incorporated it may receive young men's Christian associations into affiliation and may pass upon all applications for the incorporation of such associations, causing to be affixed to each such application a certificate of its approval.Every such affiliated association shall file with the state association a copy of its constitution and rules and annually thereafter shall file a copy of any changes therein, together with a schedule of its property, a financial statement, and such report of its activity as the state association determines.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.29 | Fiscal Trustees of Benevolent Associations.

Effective: October 25, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 349 - 112th General Assembly|A benevolent or charitable association incorporated in this state, may vest the custody, control, and management of all its endowment, capital, funds, and property in three trustees, to be styled fiscal trustees. One of such fiscal trustees shall be appointed by the court of common pleas of the county where such association is located, one by the probate court of such county, and one by the vote of a majority of the members of such association present at a regular meeting duly convoked. Such fiscal trustees shall hold their offices for three years, except the first ones appointed, who shall hold office respectively for one, two, and three years. They must meet in the presence of the probate judge, and, by agreement, or by lot if they cannot agree, allot themselves accordingly, whereupon such judge shall give to each a certificate of his term. Upon the death, resignation, incapacity, or removal from the county of any of such trustees, the vacancy must be filled for the unexpired term by the same appointing power.Such fiscal trustees shall not be appointed except upon the written request of the association, filed in such probate court, in accordance with a resolution adopted by it at a regular meeting duly convoked. Until such appointment the association at a regular meeting may elect any number of fiscal trustees, not less than three, with such power, subject to such duties, and for such time not more than three years, as the association determines by its bylaws.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.30 | Fiscal Trustees - Powers.

Effective: October 25, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 349 - 112th General Assembly|Fiscal trustees appointed for a benevolent association under section 1715.29 of the Revised Code shall have the exclusive authority, in the name and behalf of such association, to demand, take, and possess all the endowment, capital, funds, or property which the association has or may be entitled to, and securely to manage, invest, change, and dispose of these at their will, for the benefit of the association, so as to yield a regular income. Every three months, or oftener if necessary and convenient, they must give account of all such funds, property, and income to the proper board of trustees, managers, or directors of the association, and collect and pay over to them or their order all the net income of such investments, after deducting the necessary expenses of the trust. No charge or allowance for the services of such fiscal trustees shall be made.For such purposes, such fiscal trustees may, in the name of the association, contract and be contracted with, prosecute and defend suits, and receive, hold, and dispose of all money and property which the association may have, acquire, or be entitled to, by gift, purchase, or otherwise, for its endowment, and may, when necessary for such purposes, use the common seal of the corporation.Such fiscal trustees shall not have any power, or control over the institution or affairs of the corporation, other than its fiscal affairs, nor shall they be liable for its debts or for anything else but their own acts or negligence.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.31 | Provisions in Articles for Fiscal Trustees.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A benevolent or charitable association incorporated under general or special law and coming within the purview of section 1715.29 of the Revised Code, may accept the provisions of sections 1715.29 and 1715.30 of the Revised Code by a vote of the majority of the members present at a regular meeting. When a certified copy of such acceptance is filed in the office of the secretary of state, such sections shall be a part of its charter. If such association is being newly formed, it may make such sections part of its articles of incorporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.32 | Consolidation of Charitable or Benevolent Institutions.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When two or more charitable, benevolent, or educational organizations formed or incorporated in this state desire to be consolidated as a single corporation, or when two or more charitable, benevolent, or educational organizations one or more of which is or may be incorporated in this state desire to be consolidated as a single corporation, the trustees, directors, or other known legal representatives or governing body of such organizations may enter into an agreement for such consolidation and prescribe its terms, a corporate name for such united corporation which may be either the name of one of the component organizations or a new name, the time and place for the first meeting of the new corporation, and the number of members of each component organization to be chosen as directors, trustees, or other officers of the new corporation. Such directors, trustees, or other officers of the new corporation shall succeed to the rights and obligations of those officers who in the component organizations held in trust the real and personal estate thereof, and may hold such other estates as they deem necessary to complete the new corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.33 | Ratification of Consolidation Agreement.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No agreement for the consolidation of charitable, benevolent, or educational organizations under section 1715.32 of the Revised Code shall be valid until it has been submitted to a separate meeting of the members of each of the component organizations, of which meeting notice has been given according to the form and usage for calling meetings of the component organizations concerned, and ratified by a two-thirds vote of the members present at said meeting, in person or by proxy, entitled to vote according to the regulations or usages of such organizations. In case any of such organizations does not have members, then said agreement shall not be valid until it has been submitted to a meeting of such persons as are authorized to elect the governing body of such organization, of which meeting notice has been given as provided in the preceding sentence, and ratified by two thirds of such persons present at said meeting.When such agreement has been ratified by each organization which is a party to the proposed united corporation, the clerk or secretary of the ratifying meeting shall certify the record of the proceedings of such meeting and deliver it to the clerk or secretary of the first meeting of the united corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.34 | Approval of Agreement by First Meeting of United Corporation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|At the first meeting of a united corporation formed under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, each member of each of the component organizations is entitled to vote. If at such meeting the proceedings and acts of the several component organizations are submitted to and approved by it, and a board of trustees, directors, or other officers are chosen in accordance with the consolidation agreement, the clerk or secretary of the meeting shall certify the approved consolidation agreement and file it in the office of the secretary of state. Thereupon the several organizations parties thereto shall be one corporation under the name adopted.Any of the acts provided for by this section which are not done or perfected at such first meeting may be done and perfected at a subsequent or adjourned meeting of the united corporation.The certificate to the secretary of state provided for in this section shall be recorded by him, and a copy thereof, certified by him, shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county where such corporation exists. It may be recorded in the office of the county recorder of any county where there is real estate belonging to any of the component organizations.A copy of such certificate, certified by the county recorder in whose office it is recorded, or a copy certified by the secretary of state of the record in his office, shall be prima-facie evidence of the existence of such united corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.35 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.35 | Constitution and Bylaws.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A united corporation formed under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may adopt a constitution, bylaws, and rules, and may amend them under such provisions for amendment as it adopts.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.36 | Succession to Rights and Obligations of Component Organizations.

Effective: June 13, 1974|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 383 - 110th General Assembly|The various organizations entering into a union under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38 of the Revised Code, shall be merged in the united body and the new corporation, with its officers and chosen directors, trustees, or other representatives, shall succeed to and be vested with all the interests in every species of property, including property expressly given to them in trust or otherwise either before or after the consolidation, of the organizations which are parties to the agreement, and all the rights, privileges, and franchises held by or vested in each of such component organizations, without any other act, conveyance, or transfer. Any right or interest in respect to any past or future devise, bequest, conditional gift, or trust, property, or fund restricted to particular uses, when vested in or claimed by the consolidated corporation as a result of the merger, shall belong to it as the continuation without interruption of the existence and identity of the constituent organization originally named as taker or beneficiary. The new corporation shall hold and enjoy such interests, rights, privileges, and franchises with all the rights pertaining thereto, and shall be subject to all the obligations of the component organizations in the same manner and to the same extent as were the component organizations.Real estate or other property vested in or held by any of such component organizations, under any trusts or terms governing the grant, shall continue after the consolidation to be subject to such trusts or controlled by such terms.
Ohio Rev Code § 1715.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations|Section 1715.37 | Petition for Conveyance.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A united corporation formed under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, at the request of a majority of its members, or by act of its board of trustees, directors or other governing body, may in its corporate name petition the court of common pleas of the proper county, setting forth the fact of the union, and such court may make an order requiring such governing body to convey to the new corporation the real estate owned and held by the parties to the union, as it directs. If any of the members of such governing body refuse or neglect to obey such order, the decree for the conveyance shall serve as such conveyance. The order shall not be inconsistent with the original terms under which the real estate became vested in, or entrusted to, the parties to the union. In all cases the grantors of the real estate to such parties, the heirs of such grantors, or such other parties as the petitioners deem advisable may be made defendants to the petition. Defendants who make no defense shall not be subject to costs. Notice of the pendency of such petition must be given, by publication in a newspaper published in the county where the petition is filed, for four consecutive weeks, setting forth the object and prayer of the petition.