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AL Code § 10A-20-1.04 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 1 - Bishop of Diocese.|Section 10A-20-1.04 - Powers.

Section 10A-20-1.04Powers. A corporation sole under this article shall have the following powers: (1) To have succession by its corporate name perpetually; (2) To sue and be sued and defend; (3) To make and use a corporate seal and alter the same at pleasure; (4) To receive, take and hold, by sale, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, real and personal estate of every description for charitable, educational, burial, religious, and church purposes and to manage and dispose of the same by any form of legal conveyance or transfer with full power and authority to borrow money and to convey by mortgage deed; (5) To acquire, hold, purchase, receive by bequest or devise, and to convey or otherwise dispose of all such real, personal, and mixed property as may be necessary or convenient for the construction, operation, or maintenance of the diocesan enterprises or for the conduct or management of the business or businesses of the diocese of the bishop, or as the purposes of the bishop may require, and all other real, personal, or mixed property which shall have been bona fide conveyed, transferred, pledged, or mortgaged to the corporation by way of security for, or in, satisfaction of debts or purchased at sale under judgment obtained for the debts; (6) To borrow money, issue notes, bonds, or other negotiable paper or mortgage, pledge, or otherwise transfer or convey its real, personal, and mixed property to secure the payment of money borrowed or any debt contracted; (7) To appoint and employ officers and agents as the business of the corporation may require; (8) To wind up and dissolve itself or be wound up and dissolved in the manner provided in this article; (9) To establish and maintain churches, schools, orphanages, hospitals, and religious or benevolent institutions and to undertake and execute all business enterprises that the work of the diocese shall require; (10) To undertake, execute, and carry on religious or diocesan charities, works, institutions, business, or enterprises in other states or foreign countries and to acquire, hold, transfer, mortgage, and convey, real, personal, or mixed property in those states and foreign countries; and (11) To subscribe for, acquire, hold, and dispose of the stock, bonds, or other evidence of indebtedness of any other corporation of this or any other state or foreign countries and, while owner thereof, to exercise the rights, privileges, and powers of ownership, including the right to vote. (Acts 1911, No. 429, p. 452; Code 1923, §7115; Code 1940, T. 10, §118; §10-4-4; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §324.)
AL Code § 10A-20-1.05 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 1 - Bishop of Diocese.|Section 10A-20-1.05 - Certificate of Succession by Successor of Bishop.

Section 10A-20-1.05Certificate of succession by successor of bishop. When a bishop has become a corporation sole pursuant to this article, each of the successors in the bishopric shall succeed the bishop in the corporation upon making and filing with the Secretary of State an application for a certificate of succession setting forth: (1) The succession; and (2) A copy in English of the commission, instrument, or document evidencing the right to the succession, and the date and place of the consecration and induction into office, which certificate shall be subscribed, sworn to, and certified as provided for in the original application for incorporation. Upon the issue of a certificate of succession as provided for in this section, the successor shall be clothed with all the authority and power of the original incorporator. (Acts 1911, No. 429, p. 452; Code 1923, §7116; Code 1940, T. 10, §119; §10-4-5; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §324.)
AL Code § 10A-20-1.06 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 1 - Bishop of Diocese.|Section 10A-20-1.06 - Appointment of Administrator to Act While Bishopric Vacant.

Section 10A-20-1.06Appointment of administrator to act while bishopric vacant. A bishop who has become a corporation sole pursuant to this chapter shall be authorized to appoint an administrator to act for the corporation during the time as the bishopric shall for any reason be vacant. In the event a vacancy should occur in the bishopric and no administrator shall have been appointed, then the ecclesiastical authority to whom the bishop is spiritually subject shall have authority to appoint the administrator. An appointment of an administrator shall be in writing, signed by the maker, attested by at least two witnesses and acknowledged or proved, as provided for conveyances of land in this state. Upon the occurrence of a vacancy, the administrator may file in the office of the Secretary of State an application for certificate of administratorship, setting forth the vacancy and the administrator's appointment, which application shall be subscribed, sworn to, and certified like the original application for incorporation, and shall attach thereto and file therewith the appointment and the acknowledgment or proof thereof. Upon the filing of an application of an administrator or of a successor in a corporation sole, the Secretary of State shall record the same in an appropriate book of record in the office of the Secretary of State and shall issue to the applicant a certificate of administratorship or successorship, as the case may be, under the seal of the state and shall record the same with the application therefor. From the issue of the certificate of administratorship, and until the certificate of succession has issued, the administrator shall be authorized to act for the corporation in the place of the bishop. As soon as the certificate of succession provided for in Section 10A-20-1.05 is issued, the administrator shall account for his or her administration and turn over all the corporation's property to the successor. (Acts 1911, No. 429, p. 452; Code 1923, §7117; Code 1940, T. 10, §120; §10-4-6; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §324.)
AL Code § 10A-20-1.07 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 1 - Bishop of Diocese.|Section 10A-20-1.07 - Dissolution.

Section 10A-20-1.07Dissolution. Any corporation sole under this article may be dissolved by the bishop who constitutes the corporation filing with the Secretary of State an application therefor, which shall be subscribed, sworn to, and certified as in the case of an application for incorporation. Upon the filing of the certificate, the corporation shall cease, and all its property rights and liabilities shall pass to the bishop, but no bishop shall be responsible for liabilities of a dissolved corporation in any greater sum than the value of property of the corporation which may come into possession of the bishop upon its dissolution. The Secretary of State shall record the application for dissolution and shall make and issue to the bishop, under the seal of the state, a certificate that the corporation is dissolved and shall record this certificate with the application for dissolution. (Acts 1911, No. 429, p. 452; Code 1923, §7118; Code 1940, T. 10, §121; §10-4-7; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §324.)
AL Code § 10A-20-1.08 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 1 - Bishop of Diocese.|Section 10A-20-1.08 - Fees to Be Paid to the Secretary of State.

Section 10A-20-1.08Fees to be paid to the Secretary of State. Upon the presentation to the Secretary of State of any application provided for in this article, the applicant shall pay to the Secretary of State the fee prescribed to be paid to the Secretary of State by Chapter 1 as follows: (1) for the filing of an application under Section 10A-20-1.02 to become a corporation sole, the fee prescribed for filing a certificate of formation; (2) for the filing of an application under Section 10A-20-1.05 for a certificate of succession, the fee prescribed for filing a certificate of formation; (3) for the filing of an application under Section 10A-20-1.06 for appointment of an administrator, the fee prescribed for filing a certificate of formation; and (4) for the filing of an application to dissolve under Section 10A-20-1.07, the fee prescribed for filing a statement or articles of dissolution. (Acts 1911, No. 429, p. 452; Code 1923, §7119; Code 1940, T. 10, §122; §10-4-8; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §324; Act 2020-73, §10.)
AL Code § 10A-20-1.09 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 1 - Bishop of Diocese.|Section 10A-20-1.09 - Records and Certificates Prima Facie Evidence.

Section 10A-20-1.09Records and certificates prima facie evidence. Any record kept or certificate issued in pursuance of this chapter, or a copy of any such record certified to be true by the legal custodian thereof, shall be received in evidence in all courts and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein recited or thereby shown. (Acts 1911, No. 429, p. 452; Code 1923, §7120; Code 1940, T. 10, §123; §10-4-9; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §324.)
AL Code § 10A-20-2.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 2 - Churches, Public Societies, and Graveyard Owners.|Section 10A-20-2.01 - Incorporation.

Section 10A-20-2.01Incorporation. (a) The members of any church, conference of churches, religious society, educational society, benevolent, monument, or burial society, patriotic society, societies for the purpose of nature study or scientific research, society for establishing public parks or places of public recreation, societies for promoting knowledge, promoting arts, or promoting sciences, societies for purposes of like kind or the owners of a graveyard, or the trustees of any of the foregoing churches, conferences, institutions, or societies elected by the organization, or organizations, of the church, conferences, institution, association, or society desiring to become incorporated, shall adopt a resolution signifying the intention and elect not less than three trustees. (b) The trustees shall, within 30 days after their election, deliver to the Secretary of State for filing, a certificate stating the corporate name selected, the names of the trustees, and the length of time for which they are elected, shall pay to the Secretary of State the filing fee under Chapter 1 for filing a certificate of formation. The members of the society, their associates, and successors are, from the filing of the certificate, incorporated by the name specified. (Code 1852, §§1257-1260; Code 1867, §§1521, 1522, 1524, 1529, 1530; Code 1876, §§1991, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2001; Code 1886, §§1694, 1695; Code 1896, §§1302, 1303; Code 1907, §§3613, 3614; Acts 1919, No. 136, p. 117; Code 1923, §§7167, 7168; Acts 1927, No. 119, p. 83; Code 1940, T. 10, §§124, 125; Acts 1994, No. 94-573, p. 1046, §1; §10-4-20; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §326; Act 2020-73, §10.)
AL Code § 10A-20-2.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 2 - Churches, Public Societies, and Graveyard Owners.|Section 10A-20-2.02 - Powers of Corporation.

Section 10A-20-2.02Powers of corporation. Corporations not of a business character created under this article or created by special act of the Legislature heretofore may acquire, hold, administer, distribute, or dispose of real and personal property, may take, receive, and acquire property by gift, devise, or bequest and hold, own, administer, use, distribute, and dispose of the property for the advancement, promotion, extension, or maintenance of the causes and objects as may be prescribed by the constitution and bylaws of the corporation in conformity with all lawful conditions imposed by the donor and may exercise other powers as are incident to private corporations. All such powers may be exercised by the corporation in its own right or as trustee or as personal representative. (Code 1852, §1262; Code 1862, §1526; Code 1876, §1996; Code 1886, §1696; Code 1896, §1304; Code 1907, §3615; Acts 1911, No. 74, p. 49; Code 1923, §7169; Code 1940, T. 10, §126; Acts 1955, No. 393, p. 929; §10-4-21; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §326.)
AL Code § 10A-20-2.03 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 2 - Churches, Public Societies, and Graveyard Owners.|Section 10A-20-2.03 - Independence of Church Corporations in Control of Real Property.

Section 10A-20-2.03 Independence of church corporations in control of real property. (a) Unless otherwise clearly stated in the deed or other instrument under which any church corporation organized under this article derives title or unless afterwards approved by a majority of the adult members of the congregation of the church at a meeting held after announcement from the pulpit of the church at least seven days from the date of the announcement, the church corporation, whether heretofore or hereafter organized and incorporated under this article, shall be, and shall remain, a distinct and independent church corporation free from the regulation and control of any higher church body, denomination, or other organization with which it is now, or hereafter, associated or affiliated insofar as the management, control, disposition, or alienation of its real property is concerned. (b) The provisions of this section shall in nowise be construed as conferring on any church organized under this article greater power of control over its real property than it possessed prior to its passage nor shall this section be construed as diminishing in any respect the control or supervision of the real property of the church organized under this article exercised by any higher church body, denomination, or other organization prior to its passage. (Acts 1953, No. 647, p. 906, §§1, 2; §10-4-22; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §326.)
AL Code § 10A-20-2.04 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 2 - Churches, Public Societies, and Graveyard Owners.|Section 10A-20-2.04 - Validity of Service of Process on Trustee.

Section 10A-20-2.04Validity of service of process on trustee. In all civil actions or legal proceedings, the service of process and papers on a trustee of the corporation is valid for the purpose of bringing the corporation into court or for the objects of the notice. Code 1852, §1263; Code 1867, §1527; Code 1876, §1999; Code 1886, §1697; Code 1896, §1305; Code 1907, §3616; Code 1923, §7170; Code 1940, T. 10, §127; §10-4-23; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §326.)
AL Code § 10A-20-2.05 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 2 - Churches, Public Societies, and Graveyard Owners.|Section 10A-20-2.05 - Borrowing of Money and Securing Same by Mortgage or Deed of Trust.

Section 10A-20-2.05Borrowing of money and securing same by mortgage or deed of trust. The trustees, or a majority of them, or authorized agents of any church, conference of churches, societies, or associations organized by special charter or under the general laws of this state, may borrow money to an amount as may be authorized by a majority of the trustees or authorized agents and may, by mortgage or deed of trust, convey all or any part of the property owned, real or personal, or both, to secure the payment of any debt contracted by the trustees or authorized agents; but before the mortgage or deed of trust can be executed, a majority of the board of trustees or authorized agents shall have first authorized the incurring of the debt and the execution of the mortgage or deed of trust on all or part of the real or personal property, or both, of the church, conference of churches, society, or association, which authorization must be made at a meeting of the board of trustees or authorized agents specifically called for the purpose. Any church, conference of churches, society, or association may grant to its board of trustees or authorized agents the power to convey by mortgage or deed of trust any or all of its property, real or personal, it may then own or may thereafter acquire for the purpose of securing any debt contracted by the board of trustees. A certified copy of the minutes of the church, conference of churches, society, or association, or of the board of trustees or authorized agents, shall be prima facie evidence of the authority of the board of trustees or authorized agents. (Code 1876, §1997; Code 1886, §1698; Code 1896, §1306; Code 1907, §3617; Acts 1919, No. 568, p. 826; Code 1923, §7171; Acts 1927, No. 119, p. 83; Code 1940, T. 10, §128; §10-4-24; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §326.)
AL Code § 10A-20-2.06 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 2 - Churches, Public Societies, and Graveyard Owners.|Section 10A-20-2.06 - Sale and Conveyance of Property.

Section 10A-20-2.06Sale and conveyance of property. The trustees or other authorized agents of any church, conference of churches, society, association, or other corporation organized under this article may sell and convey all or part of the property thereof, real or personal, as they may be authorized to do by resolution of the church, conference of churches, society, association, or other corporation assembled at a regular meeting or special meeting. If a special meeting, notice of the time, place, and object of the meeting must be given at least 10 days prior to the special meeting by posting notice at the place of regular meetings. (Code 1923, §7172; Acts 1927, No. 119, p. 83; Code 1940, T. 10, §129; §10-4-25; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §326.)
AL Code § 10A-20-2.07 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 2 - Churches, Public Societies, and Graveyard Owners.|Section 10A-20-2.07 - Effect of Recital in Minutes on Proceedings Under Sections 10a-20-2.05 and 10a-20-2.06.

Section 10A-20-2.07Effect of recital in minutes on proceedings under Sections 10A-20-2.05 and 10A-20-2.06. A recital upon the minutes of the proceedings of a society or church that the notice required in Sections 10A-20-2.05 and 10A-20-2.06 was given, and of the vote upon the question before the meeting shall be evidence of the regularity of the meeting and of the proceedings therein. (Code 1876, §1998; Code 1886, §1699; Code 1896, §1307; Code 1907, §3618; Code 1923, §7173; Code 1940, T. 10, §130; §10-4-26; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §326.)
AL Code § 10A-20-2.08 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 2 - Churches, Public Societies, and Graveyard Owners.|Section 10A-20-2.08 - Burial Societies - Special Powers.

Section 10A-20-2.08 Burial societies - Special powers. Burial societies so incorporated may exercise all powers necessary for properly governing, beautifying, improving, and taking care of such graveyard, and may make bylaws, rules, and regulations as are proper and necessary to secure the objects. (Code 1867, §1532; Code 1876, §2003; Code 1886, §1700; Code 1896, §1308; Code 1907, §3619; Code 1923, §7174; Code 1940, T. 10, §131; §10-4-27; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §326.)
AL Code § 10A-20-2.09 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 2 - Churches, Public Societies, and Graveyard Owners.|Section 10A-20-2.09 - Burial Societies - Chair and Members of Board.

Section 10A-20-2.09Burial societies - Chair and members of board. When a graveyard is wholly under the control of persons belonging to one denomination or faith, the elder, deacon, minister, bishop, or priest who is the head of the denomination in the city, town, village, or county shall be ex officio the chair of the board of trustees. When a graveyard is under the control of persons of different denominations, the heads of the denominations interested shall be members of the board. (Code 1867, §1533; Code 1876, §2004; Code 1886, §1701; Code 1896, §1309; Code 1907, §3620; Code 1923, §7175; Code 1940, T. 10, §132; §10-4-28; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §326.)
AL Code § 10A-20-3.01 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 3 - Conference of Ministers.|Section 10A-20-3.01 - Formation of Ministers Into Body Corporate.

Section 10A-20-3.01Formation of ministers into body corporate. Whenever 10 or more ministers of the gospel or of any other religious faith or denomination desire to be legally formed into a body corporate, they shall file with the Secretary of State a declaration in writing, signed by them, setting forth the corporate name they desire to have, the name of the denomination or branch of the church of God with which they are in affiliation and to whose rules and articles of belief they conform, and shall pay the Secretary of State the filing fee required to be paid to the Secretary of State under Section 10A-1-4.31 for filing a certificate of formation, whereupon the Secretary of State, in the name of the State of Alabama, shall issue a certificate of incorporation or charter to the corporation. (Code 1907, §3593; Code 1923, §7083; Code 1940, T. 10, §111; §10-4-40; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §328.)
AL Code § 10A-20-3.02 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 10A - Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code.|Chapter 20 - Special Purpose Entities.|Article 3 - Conference of Ministers.|Section 10A-20-3.02 - Powers of Corporation.

Section 10A-20-3.02Powers of corporation. All corporations formed under this article shall have and exercise these powers: (1) To have perpetual succession by its corporate name; (2) To take and grant property, to contract obligations, and to sue and be sued by its corporate name; (3) To buy lands and other property, to receive grants of privileges and immunities, and hold the same for the benefit of its members and their successors; (4) To receive gifts and grants in trust for the advancement of the religion or faith with which the corporation affiliates and education, and to execute the trusts; (5) To lend any fund belonging to the corporation, or held by it in trust, and take security therefor, in bond with sureties, in pledges of personalty or in mortgages of property; (6) To have a corporate seal; (7) To make bylaws for the government of the corporation in conformity with the general laws and usage of that branch of the Christian church or of any other religious faith or denomination with which it affiliates; (8) To prescribe the number and qualifications of its members and expel the same for cause; and (9) To appoint and remove its officers and require bonds of its officers or agents, as it may deem proper. (Code 1907, §3594; Code 1923, §7084; Code 1940, T. 10, §112; §10-4-41; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §328.)