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MI Comp L § 458.104 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 54 of 1899 - Baptist Churches (458.101 - 458.112)|Section 458.104 - Trustees; Subject to Control of Church; Purchase and Sale of Realty.

458.104 Trustees; subject to control of church; purchase and sale of realty. Sec. 4.  The trustees shall be subject, in all their official duties, to the control and direction of the church, and in case the church shall desire to buy, sell or lease real estate, then a notice declaring such desire and intention, which shall designate the property to be bought, sold or leased, shall be read at the regular church or covenant meeting next preceding the regular meeting, at which final action shall be taken authorizing such purchase, sale or lease; and after such authority shall have been so granted by the church, the trustees shall have full power to purchase, sell or lease such real estate upon such terms and conditions as shall not be inconsistent with the instructions given by the church. History: 1899, Act 54, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 10945 ;-- CL 1929, 10904 ;-- CL 1948, 458.104
MI Comp L § 458.105 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 54 of 1899 - Baptist Churches (458.101 - 458.112)|Section 458.105 - Trustees; Powers.

458.105 Trustees; powers. Sec. 5.  Such trustees may have a common seal, and may alter the same at pleasure; and they may take into their possession and custody all the temporalities of such church, whether the same shall consist of real or personal estate, and whether the same may have been given, granted or devised, directly or indirectly, to such church, or to any person or persons for their use. History: 1899, Act 54, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 10946 ;-- CL 1929, 10905 ;-- CL 1948, 458.105
MI Comp L § 458.106 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 54 of 1899 - Baptist Churches (458.101 - 458.112)|Section 458.106 - Trustees; Corporate Powers; Taxation.

458.106 Trustees; corporate powers; taxation. Sec. 6.  Such trustees may also, in their corporate name, sue and be sued in all courts and places; and they may recover and hold all the debts, demands, rights and privileges due to any church or churches for which they shall be trustees, together with all buildings, burying places, and all the estate and appurtenances belonging to such church or churches in whatsoever manner the same may have been acquired or in whose hands soever the same may be held, as fully as if the right and title thereto had been originally vested in said trustees. And they may hold in perpetuity, lease, sell or construct buildings upon such lands as may be lawfully acquired in the corporate name of such church or churches, or in the name of the trustees acting on behalf of such church or churches, the income from such property, if any, to be used exclusively for church finances. Any land so held by such church or churches, either in the corporate name of any such church or churches or in the name of the trustees on behalf of such church, which is used for purposes other than places of worship, schools, cemeteries, parsonages or other purposes connected directly with the object of such church as a house of worship, shall be subject to taxation the same as property which may be held by private individuals or corporate bodies organized for profit; and the title to any such property which shall be used for any purpose other than a place of worship, a school, a parsonage or a cemetery and the appurtenances thereto, and from which a profit shall be derived, shall not be held for a longer period than 15 years from the date when such church or the trustees thereof acquired such title. History: 1899, Act 54, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 10947 ;-- Am. 1917, Act 274, Eff. Aug. 10, 1917 ;-- CL 1929, 10906 ;-- CL 1948, 458.106
MI Comp L § 458.107 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 54 of 1899 - Baptist Churches (458.101 - 458.112)|Section 458.107 - Trustees; Election in Certain Case; Dissolution, Convention Legal Successor.

458.107 Trustees; election in certain case; dissolution, convention legal successor. Sec. 7.  If it shall happen that any church organized under the provisions of this act shall, from any cause, be found at any time without trustees, such church shall not for that cause lose its corporate existence, but such church may at any time proceed to elect trustees, as provided in this act: Provided, That whenever any corporation organized under the provisions of this act shall be dissolved by the death of all its members, or by the loss of so many of them that it is thereby rendered unable to do any corporate act or to restore itself by proceeding to elect trustees, as provided in this act, the Baptist convention of the state of Michigan, a corporation organized and existing under an act of the legislature of the state of Michigan, entitled "An act to incorporate the Baptist convention of the state of Michigan," approved February sixteenth, A.D. 1842, and the statutes amendatory thereto, shall be held and deemed to be the legal successor of such corporation and shall succeed to, and be vested with, all property rights which were in such corporation at the time it was dissolved. History: 1899, Act 54, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 10948 ;-- CL 1929, 10907 ;-- CL 1948, 458.107
MI Comp L § 458.108 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 54 of 1899 - Baptist Churches (458.101 - 458.112)|Section 458.108 - Reincorporation Under Act; Procedure.

458.108 Reincorporation under act; procedure. Sec. 8.  Any Baptist church or any Baptist church and society incorporated or organized under the laws of this state, may elect to dissolve their existing corporation and take corporate powers under this act: Provided, The consent of the majority of the members of said church or church and society who may be present at such meeting can be obtained at any regular church or covenant meeting of the church: Provided also, That notice shall be given to said church or church and society to meet with the church at its regular church or covenant meeting for the purpose of dissolving said corporation with a view of organizing under the provisions of this act, said notice to be given on the last 2 Sundays preceding the day on which the act of dissolution shall be taken. History: 1899, Act 54, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 10949 ;-- CL 1929, 10908 ;-- CL 1948, 458.108
MI Comp L § 458.109 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 54 of 1899 - Baptist Churches (458.101 - 458.112)|Section 458.109 - Certificate of Dissolution; Execution; Acknowledgment; Recording; Powers, Privileges, Duties, Trusts, and Obligations of New Organization.

458.109 Certificate of dissolution; execution; acknowledgment; recording; powers, privileges, duties, trusts, and obligations of new organization. Sec. 9.  If such consent for dissolving such corporation for the purposes as above mentioned shall be so obtained, then a certificate containing an account of such dissolution shall be executed and acknowledged by the presiding officer and secretary of said meeting, and be recorded in the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce, and on compliance with the provisions of this act all the property, powers, privileges, duties, trusts, and obligations of every kind possessed by or pertaining to the original corporation thus dissolved shall pass to and be possessed by the new organization. History: 1899, Act 54, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 10950 ;-- CL 1929, 10909 ;-- CL 1948, 458.109 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 446, Eff. Mar. 30, 1983
MI Comp L § 458.110 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 54 of 1899 - Baptist Churches (458.101 - 458.112)|Section 458.110 - Amendment of Articles; Procedure.

458.110 Amendment of articles; procedure. Sec. 10.  At any time after such church shall have become duly organized under this act, it shall be lawful for any such church, at any regular meeting thereof, of which proper notice shall have been given, as hereinafter provided, by a vote of 2/3 of the members present at such meeting, to amend its articles of association in any manner not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and such amendments shall become operative on filing a copy of the same, certified by the moderator or chairman and clerk of such meeting, and duly acknowledged by an officer authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce. History: 1899, Act 54, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 10951 ;-- CL 1929, 10910 ;-- CL 1948, 458.110 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 446, Eff. Mar. 30, 1983
MI Comp L § 458.111 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 54 of 1899 - Baptist Churches (458.101 - 458.112)|Section 458.111 - Amendment of Articles.

458.111 Amendment of articles. Sec. 11.  Whenever it shall be purposed to alter or amend the articles of association of any church organized under this act, such alteration or amendment shall not be adopted until the expiration of at least 3 weeks from the day of the meeting on which the same shall have been first introduced before the church, and such proposed alteration or amendment shall be reduced to writing, when it shall be introduced, and shall not be amended on the same day on which it shall be adopted. History: 1899, Act 54, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 10952 ;-- CL 1929, 10911 ;-- CL 1948, 458.111
MI Comp L § 458.112 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 54 of 1899 - Baptist Churches (458.101 - 458.112)|Section 458.112 - Construction of Inconsistent Acts.

458.112 Construction of inconsistent acts. Sec. 12.  In all cases which may arise in any of the courts of this state in connection with any church which may be incorporated under this act, and in all suits in law or equity to which any such church may be a party, all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith shall be interpreted and construed in such a manner as to give full force to all the rights and privileges hereby granted or intended to be granted. History: 1899, Act 54, Imd. Eff. May 2, 1899 ;-- CL 1915, 10953 ;-- CL 1929, 10912 ;-- CL 1948, 458.112
MI Comp L § 458.151 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 42 of 1842 - Baptist Convention (458.151 - 458.159)|Section 458.151 - Baptist Convention; Incorporation, Objects.

458.151 Baptist convention; incorporation, objects. Sec. 1.  That said association of which John Booth is president, and W. Taylor, R. Powell, J. I. Fulton, J. Hall, C. H. Swain, S. Goodman, J. O. Beardsall, M. Allen, J. S. Twiss, J. Knapp, J. Harris, D. B. Brown, E. Weaver and J. Michell are vice presidents; and R. C. Smith, treasurer; and D. B. Brown, auditor; and M. Sanford, secretary; and M. Pearsall, D. Barrett, N. G. Chase, C. L. Bacon, R. B. Rexford, W. S. Gregory, S. Chase, A. Wattles, J. Tenny, L. Moore, T. W. Merrill, M. B. Savage, A. Piper, T. Z. R. Jones, W. G. Wisner, E. Hodge, G. B. Day, W. B. Brown, A. Ten Broek, F. Darrow, D. Hendee, E. Comstock, C. B. Taylor, C. Eldred, C. P. Jacobs, R. Tiffany, E. H. Hamlin, H. D. Buttolph, L. H. Moore and B. G. Lewis, directors, is hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of the Michigan Baptist Convention. The object of this convention shall be:  First. To promote the preaching of the gospel and the establishment and maintenance of Baptist churches and Sunday schools within the state of Michigan.  Second. To encourage the educational interests of the denomination within the state.  Third. The disseminating of the gospel, aiding home and foreign missions, promoting ministerial education, Sabbath school instruction, and the circulation of religious tracts. History: 1842, Act 42, Eff. Mar. 19, 1842 ;-- Am. 1905, Act 60, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1905 ;-- CL 1929, 10913 ;-- CL 1948, 458.151
MI Comp L § 458.152 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 42 of 1842 - Baptist Convention (458.151 - 458.159)|Section 458.152 - Membership.

458.152 Membership. Sec. 2.  All persons now members of said association, and every person who shall hereafter pay 1 dollar or more to the treasurer of the corporation and request to become a member thereof, shall be and continue members of the corporation so long as they shall continue to pay annually 1 dollar or more to the treasurer of the corporation, and no longer, and all persons who are life members of said association, and every person who shall hereafter pay at any 1 time, to the treasurer of the corporation, 10 dollars or more, and request to become a life member of the corporation, shall be life members of said corporation. History: 1842, Act 42, Eff. Mar. 19, 1842 ;-- CL 1929, 10914 ;-- CL 1948, 458.152
MI Comp L § 458.153 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 42 of 1842 - Baptist Convention (458.151 - 458.159)|Section 458.153 - First Meeting, Calling; Annual Meeting.

458.153 First meeting, calling; annual meeting. Sec. 3.  There shall be a meeting of the members of said corporation once in each year, for the purpose of transacting business, at such time and place as may be designated at a previous meeting. The first meeting under this act of incorporation shall be at Jonesville, on the first Wednesday in October next. Should anything prevent a meeting at that time, or at any other time, to be designated as above provided, it shall be the duty of the president, or in case of his absence, death or refusal, of any other officer or director, on the written request of a majority of the board of directors, to call a meeting of the members of said incorporation, at any time within 6 months thereafter, by giving 2 months notice of the time and place of such meeting in some newspaper published in this state. History: 1842, Act 42, Eff. Mar. 19, 1842 ;-- CL 1929, 10915 ;-- CL 1948, 458.153
MI Comp L § 458.154 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 42 of 1842 - Baptist Convention (458.151 - 458.159)|Section 458.154 - First Meeting; Election of Officers and Directors; Terms of Office; Board of Managers; Powers of Convention.

458.154 First meeting; election of officers and directors; terms of office; board of managers; powers of convention. Sec. 4.  At such meeting there shall be elected by ballot a president, 1 or more vice presidents, a secretary, a treasurer, an auditor and 30 directors. All of these shall be members of Baptist churches, and these shall constitute a board of managers for the transaction of all such business of the corporation as shall be entrusted to them for that purpose by the by-laws, rules and regulations made, or any resolution passed at any annual meeting of the members of the corporation, who shall have power from time to time to make all necessary by-laws, rules and regulations, and pass all necessary resolutions for that purpose, and to repeal, alter, or amend the same at pleasure, and to require security by bond or otherwise from any or all of said officers for the faithful performance of their duties. The president, vice-president, treasurer, auditor, secretary and directors, hereinbefore named, shall continue to hold their respective offices until the next meeting of the members of the corporation as hereinbefore provided, and until their successors are elected. History: 1842, Act 42, Eff. Mar. 19, 1842 ;-- Am. 1905, Act 60, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1905 ;-- CL 1929, 10916 ;-- CL 1948, 458.154
MI Comp L § 458.156 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 42 of 1842 - Baptist Convention (458.151 - 458.159)|Section 458.156 - Donations; Use.

458.156 Donations; use. Sec. 6.  All money or property given to the corporation, for any 1 of the objects specified in the last preceding section, to be designated by the donor, shall be used by the corporation for that object and no other; and all moneys or property given to the corporation generally, and without the donors specifying the particular object to which it shall be applied, may be used to promote any 1 or more of the objects named in said section. History: 1842, Act 42, Eff. Mar. 19, 1842 ;-- CL 1929, 10918 ;-- CL 1948, 458.156
MI Comp L § 458.157 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 42 of 1842 - Baptist Convention (458.151 - 458.159)|Section 458.157 - Members; Powers at Any Meeting.

458.157 Members; powers at any meeting. Sec. 7.  The members of the corporation shall have power at any meeting held, as aforesaid, to provide by their by-laws that any number of persons associated together for any of the purposes mentioned in this act of incorporation may, as auxiliary societies, be represented by their delegates at all meetings of the members of this corporation, and that such delegates may be entitled to vote at such meetings and for that purpose be considered as members of the corporation, and that any such society or any individual who shall pay 50 dollars or more annually, to said corporation shall have the right to appoint a member of the board of managers hereinbefore mentioned, the members of which may be increased for that purpose, and they may also provide by their by-laws what number of members of the board of managers shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and also to provide for an executive committee of said board of managers for the transaction of such business of said corporation as shall be, by said by-laws, entrusted to said executive committee. History: 1842, Act 42, Eff. Mar. 19, 1842 ;-- Am. 1905, Act 60, Imd. Eff. Apr. 19, 1905 ;-- CL 1929, 10919 ;-- CL 1948, 458.157
MI Comp L § 458.158 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 42 of 1842 - Baptist Convention (458.151 - 458.159)|Section 458.158 - By-Laws and Rules.

458.158 By-laws and rules. Sec. 8.  All by-laws, rules and regulations now in existence of the society and not inconsistent with this act of incorporation, shall continue to be the by-laws, rules and regulations of the corporation, until annulled or superseded by some other by-law, rule or regulation of the corporation. History: 1842, Act 42, Eff. Mar. 19, 1842 ;-- CL 1929, 10920 ;-- CL 1948, 458.158
MI Comp L § 458.159 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 42 of 1842 - Baptist Convention (458.151 - 458.159)|Section 458.159 - Repeal of Act.

458.159 Repeal of act. Sec. 9.  This act may be repealed at any time by the legislature. History: 1842, Act 42, Eff. Mar. 19, 1842 ;-- CL 1929, 10921 ;-- CL 1948, 458.159
MI Comp L § 458.171 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 32 of 1929 - Dissolution of Baptist Ecclesiastical Societies (458.171 - 458.172)|Section 458.171 - Meeting of Incorporated Society; Calling.

458.171 Meeting of incorporated society; calling. Sec. 1.  Whenever any Baptist church in connection with which there is an incorporated religious or ecclesiastical society organized in accordance with the laws of the territory or state of Michigan, at any regular or called meeting, shall express by ballot and by 2/3 vote of its qualified members present and voting a desire to assume said corporate powers and the direction and control of its property and secular affairs, the trustees of said society upon receiving official notification of the vote of said church shall forthwith call a meeting of said society of which meeting notice shall be given on 3 successive Sundays next preceding the date of said meeting, specifying the time, place and object thereof to consider and vote upon the questions stated in section 2 hereof. History: 1929, Act 32, Imd. Eff. Apr. 4, 1929 ;-- CL 1929, 10922 ;-- CL 1948, 458.171
MI Comp L § 458.172 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 32 of 1929 - Dissolution of Baptist Ecclesiastical Societies (458.171 - 458.172)|Section 458.172 - Meeting of Incorporated Society; Question Put to Vote; Dissolution of Society; Property, Passing to Incorporated Church.

458.172 Meeting of incorporated society; question put to vote; dissolution of society; property, passing to incorporated church. Sec. 2.  At the meeting so called the following question shall be put to vote:  "Shall the title to all the property of the (name of society) be vested in the .......... BAPTIST CHURCH of .............. Michigan and the said society be dissolved?"  The vote shall be by ballot and if 2/3 of the ballots cast shall be in the affirmative a duly certified copy of such resolution shall be transmitted to the clerk of said church who shall call a meeting of said church which shall then prepare, execute and place on record articles of association under and in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 54 of the Public Acts of 1899, and the amendments thereto, or such other act of the state of Michigan as may authorize the incorporation of churches and upon recording of said articles of association as provided in said act the said society shall be dissolved and all property owned by it shall pass to and be held by the said church so incorporated under the name and style adopted by it in the said articles of association and all liabilities of said society shall be assumed and paid by said church. History: 1929, Act 32, Imd. Eff. Apr. 4, 1929 ;-- CL 1929, 10923 ;-- CL 1948, 458.172 Compiler's Notes: For provisions of Act 54 of 1899, referred to in this section, see MCL 458.101 et seq.
MI Comp L § 458.201 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 265 of 1909 - United Presbyterian Churches (458.201 - 458.213)|Section 458.201 - Presbyterian Church (Usa); Articles of Association; Notice; Adoption; Board of Trustees.

458.201 Presbyterian church (USA); articles of association; notice; adoption; board of trustees. Sec. 1.  When a church worshiping according to the faith and polity of the Presbyterian Church (USA) shall desire to possess corporate powers, the members of the church present at a regular meeting of the church, notice of the proposed action having been given at 2 previous regular meetings, the first meeting being held at least 2 weeks previous to the regular meeting, may, by vote of a majority of the members then present, adopt articles of association in accordance with this act, and may then proceed under the articles to elect not less than 3 persons, a majority of whom shall be members of the church, to act as the first board of trustees of the corporate body. History: 1909, Act 265, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909 ;-- CL 1915, 11087 ;-- CL 1929, 10924 ;-- CL 1948, 458.201 ;-- Am. 1960, Act 70, Eff. Aug. 17, 1960 ;-- Am. 1976, Act 274, Imd. Eff. Oct. 14, 1976 ;-- Am. 1984, Act 39, Imd. Eff. Mar. 26, 1984
MI Comp L § 458.202 (2021)
2021 Michigan Compiled Laws|Chapter 458 - Ecclesiastical Corporations|Act 265 of 1909 - United Presbyterian Churches (458.201 - 458.213)|Section 458.202 - Certificate; Execution, Contents.

458.202 Certificate; execution, contents. Sec. 2.  It shall be the duty of the persons so chosen as such trustees to proceed to execute in duplicate, and acknowledge before any person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate which shall contain:  First, A copy of the records showing the proceedings and vote on the resolution accepting and adopting such articles of association;  Second, A copy of the articles of association so adopted, which shall give the name of the corporation; the name of the township, village or city, and of the county in which it is located; a statement of the purpose of the incorporation; the period for which it is incorporated; and it may contain such other provisions as may be desired and as are appropriate and in accordance with law. History: 1909, Act 265, Eff. Sept. 1, 1909 ;-- CL 1915, 11088 ;-- CL 1929, 10925 ;-- CL 1948, 458.202