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CT Gen Stat § 33-241 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act|Section 33-241 - Exemption from jurisdiction of Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

 Cooperatives doing business in this state pursuant to this chapter shall be exempt from the jurisdiction and control of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority of this state, except as to the construction and maintenance of electric transmission and distribution lines, provided no standards in excess of standards prescribed in the National Electric Safety Code shall be required by said authority.(1949 Rev., S. 5350; P.A. 75-486, S. 61, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 231, 348; P.A. 11-80, S. 1.)History: P.A. 75-486 replaced public utilities commission with public utilities control authority, effective December 1, 1975; P.A. 77-614 replaced public utilities control authority with division of public utility control within the department of business regulation, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 created independent department of public utility control and abolished department of business regulation; pursuant to P.A. 11-80, “Department of Public Utility Control” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Public Utilities Regulatory Authority”, effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 33-242 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 597 - Electric Cooperative Act|Section 33-242 - Securities act exemption.

 The provisions of chapter 651 shall not apply to any note, bond or other evidence of indebtedness issued by any cooperative doing business in this state pursuant to this chapter, to the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or to any mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument executed to secure the same. The provisions of said chapter shall not apply to the issuance of membership certificates by any cooperative.(1949 Rev., S. 5351.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-264a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-264a - Formation of religious corporation or society.

 Three or more persons uniting for public worship may form a corporation or a voluntary association. Such a corporation shall be called a religious corporation and such a voluntary association shall be called a religious society. Nothing contained in the provisions of this part shall prohibit the formation for the purpose of public or private worship of a corporation, association or other organization of any kind under part II of this chapter or under any other law of this state.(1969, P.A. 314, S. 1.)Former statute cited. 151 C. 517.
CT Gen Stat § 33-264b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-264b - Filing of certificate.

 Each religious society and religious corporation formed under section 33-264a shall file with the Secretary of the State such certificate, in proper form executed, as shall be prescribed by said secretary.(1969, P.A. 314, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-264c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-264c - Powers.

 (a) A religious society or a religious corporation formed under section 33-264a and any corporation or voluntary association formed under part II of this chapter may hold, manage, acquire, purchase, sell, convey and have and exercise any rights of ownership in real and personal property for the use and support of public worship or for any ecclesiastical, missionary, charitable or educational purpose. Grants, donations, devises and bequests of real and personal property may be received and held in trust or otherwise for such purposes.(b) A religious society may, in its charter or by bylaw or otherwise, adopt provisions relative to its membership, affairs and government.(c) A religious corporation may, in its charter or by bylaw or otherwise, adopt provisions relative to its membership, affairs and government and shall have in addition to those powers granted in this part all the powers enumerated in section 33-1036. A corporation which is organized under any other law of this state and which is formed for public worship shall have, in addition to all other powers conferred by law, the powers conferred on religious corporations under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section.(d) A member of a religious society or of a religious corporation shall not be liable for any obligation to the creditors of such religious society or religious corporation.(1969, P.A. 314, S. 3; P.A. 96-256, S. 190, 209.)History: P.A. 96-256 amended Subsec. (c) to replace reference to Sec. 33-428 with Sec. 33-1036, effective January 1, 1997.
CT Gen Stat § 33-264d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-264d - Change from religious society to corporation.

 (a) Any religious society may become a religious corporation, when its purpose to do so is determined by a vote of two-thirds of those members present at a meeting warned and held for that purpose or by such other vote, but not less than a majority of members present and voting, as may be provided by the charter or bylaws, by filing, in the office of the Secretary of the State, such certificate, in proper form executed, as shall be prescribed by said secretary.(b) A person who, at the date of the organization of such corporation, is a member of such religious society shall become a member of such religious corporation, unless within a reasonable time he notifies the clerk or similar officer of either the religious society or of the religious corporation that he has elected not to become a member of the religious corporation.(c) Upon filing with the Secretary of the State as provided in this section, the separate existence of the religious society shall cease and thereupon all property, real and personal, and all debts due on whatever account, and all other choses in action, and all and every other interest, of or belonging to or due to the religious society shall be taken to and transferred to and vested in the religious corporation without further act and deed. The religious corporation shall thenceforth be responsible and liable for all the liabilities, obligations and penalties of the religious society; any claim existing or action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending by or against any such religious society may be prosecuted as if such incorporation had not taken place, or the religious corporation may be substituted in its place; and any judgment rendered against the religious society may be enforced against the religious corporation. Neither the rights of creditors nor any liens upon property of the religious society shall be impaired by the incorporation of such religious society.(d) Each unvested gift or legacy to a religious society which, pursuant to the provisions of this section has ceased to exist, shall inure to and vest in the religious corporation which has taken its place.(1969, P.A. 314, S. 4.)Cited. 224 C. 797.
CT Gen Stat § 33-264e (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-264e - Dissolution.

 A religious society or religious corporation formed under the provisions of this part may by a vote of two-thirds of those members present at a meeting duly warned and held for that purpose be dissolved. After all of its liabilities and obligations have been paid, satisfied and discharged, or adequate provision made therefor, the assets of such religious society or religious corporation shall be distributed in accordance with the provisions of its charter or bylaws or, if no such provision is made, then in accordance with the vote of its members but only to another religious society, religious corporation or other organization formed for public worship or for ecclesiastical, missionary, charitable or educational purposes, provided property held pursuant to the provisions of section 47-2 shall continue to be held for such purposes and, where the rules and regulations of the denomination with which such religious society or religious corporation is affiliated provide to the contrary, such assets shall be distributed in accordance with such rules, regulations and ordinances. No property of a religious society or religious corporation shall be distributed to its members.(1969, P.A. 314, S. 5.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-264g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-264g - Receipt of funds by ecclesiastical societies, cemetery associations and library associations.

 Any ecclesiastical society which is not a religious society as defined in section 33-264a or which is not an ecclesiastical society under part II of this chapter and any cemetery association or library association organized for mutual or public benefit and not for the purpose of deriving financial profit from the operations thereof, shall have the power to receive and hold funds in any amount derived by gift or devise, provided the uses of any such fund and of the income therefrom are, by the terms of such gift or devise, limited to the purposes for which such ecclesiastical society, cemetery association or library association was organized.(1969, P.A. 314, S. 7.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-264h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-264h - Conveyances by ecclesiastical societies to religious societies and corporations.

 Any ecclesiastical society which is not a religious society within the meaning of section 33-264a and which is associated with such a religious society or with a religious corporation may, by a two-thirds vote of its members present and voting at a meeting warned and held for that purpose, transfer and convey to such religious society or religious corporation all the property and estate of such ecclesiastical society and all trust funds held by it, to be held by such religious society or religious corporation under and upon the same uses and trusts upon which the same had been previously held by such ecclesiastical society. The religious society or religious corporation accepting such transfer shall thereupon become primarily liable for all the then existing debts and obligations of the transferring ecclesiastical society, and such debts and obligations shall be a first lien upon the property so transferred, except such of it as has been held in trust. Each unvested gift or legacy to an ecclesiastical society which, pursuant to the provisions of section 33-264i, has ceased to exist, shall inure to and vest in the religious society or religious corporation which has taken its place.(1969, P.A. 314, S. 8.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-264i (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-264i - Dissolution of ecclesiastical society.

 Any ecclesiastical society within the meaning of section 33-264g, which votes under the provisions of section 33-264h to transfer and convey to a duly organized religious society or religious corporation all its property and estate and the trust funds held by it, may after notice, at the same or a subsequent meeting of such ecclesiastical society, by a two-thirds vote of its members present, vote to dissolve its organization. If any such ecclesiastical society so votes, it shall be dissolved upon making proper conveyance of its property as provided by this part.(1969, P.A. 314, S. 9.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-264j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-264j - Status of societies established prior to October 1, 1969.

 (a) Each religious society established as a voluntary association under part I of this chapter prior to October 1, 1969, shall be a religious society within the meaning of section 33-264a and shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities thereof without further filing with the Secretary of the State. Each church and each religious society formed for public worship and established as a corporation under said part I of this chapter prior to October 1, 1969, shall be a religious corporation within the meaning of section 33-264a and shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities thereof without further filing with said office.(b) Nothing in this part shall be construed as limiting or restricting the rights, powers, privileges, immunities or the practices of any church or religious society established or incorporated prior to October 1, 1969, under this chapter or under any other law or special charter of this state; nor as requiring any such church or religious society to alter or change any rule of discipline, custom or usage in respect to its policy or government; nor as interfering with the lawful acquisition, purchase, use, management, conveyance, sale or other disposition of any property, real or personal, owned or held on said date for public religious worship or otherwise by any such church or religious society; nor as interfering with the lawful receipt of any grants, donations or funds, in trust or otherwise, for any charitable, educational or ecclesiastical purposes, including but not limited to public religious worship or missionary purposes, by any such church or religious society; nor as interfering with the rights of any such church or religious society; to have succession by its corporate name for the time stated in its articles of association or of incorporation and, when no time is stated, perpetually; to sue and be sued and complain and defend in any court; to have and use a corporate seal and alter the same at pleasure; to elect in such manner as it may determine all necessary officers and to define their duties and obligations; and to make reasonable bylaws for its government, the regulation of ecclesiastical affairs and the management of property, including the holding, purchasing, selling or conveying of such property, real or personal, which it may have taken in payment of or as security for debts due to it.(1969, P.A. 314, S. 10, 11.)History: (Revisor's note: In 2003 references in Subsecs. (a) and (b) to “chapter 598” and “said chapter” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “this chapter”.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-264k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-264k - Construction of part.

 The provisions of this part shall be liberally construed in the interests of religion and morality.(1969, P.A. 314, S. 12.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-264l (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-264l - Prior rights and liabilities unaffected.

 This part and the repeal of part I shall not impair or affect any act done, offense committed or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability, duty, obligation, penalty, judgment or punishment incurred, prior to October 1, 1969, but the same may be enjoyed, asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully and to the same extent as if this part and said repeal had not been passed.(1969, P.A. 314, S. 13.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-265 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-265 - Legal status and powers.

 All ecclesiastical societies in this state, in communion with the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, shall be known in the law as parishes as well as ecclesiastical societies, and shall have power to receive and hold by gift, grant or purchase all property, real or personal, that has been or may be conveyed to them for maintaining religious worship according to the doctrine, discipline and worship of said church, and for the support of the educational and charitable institutions of the same, and shall have and exercise all the ordinary powers of bodies corporate.(1949 Rev., S. 5374.)Bequest to wardens and vestry is valid. 22 C. 132. A parish is a corporation; its rector is its agent and it can take a bequest for the benefit of the poor. 57 C. 275. Relation between church in this state and church in general; trust for its general purposes; is a charity which church cannot release. 67 C. 554. Bequest in trust for erection of a chapel considered and upheld. 74 C. 586. Cited. 224 C. 797.
CT Gen Stat § 33-266 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-266 - Regulations.

 The manner of conducting the parish, the qualifications for membership of the parish and the manner of acquiring and terminating such membership, the number of the officers of the parish, their powers and duties and the manner of their appointment, the time of holding the annual meeting of the parish and the manner of notification thereof and the manner of calling special meetings of the parish shall be such as are provided and prescribed by the constitution, canons and regulations of said Protestant Episcopal Church in this state.(1949 Rev., S. 5375.)Cited. 224 C. 797.
CT Gen Stat § 33-267 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-267 - Two organizations in one society.

 When one society includes two or more organizations recognized as ecclesiastically distinct, but in law constituting one corporate body, officers may be appointed for the management of the separate affairs of each of the organizations and the general affairs of the society shall be under the united management of the officers so appointed.(1949 Rev., S. 5376.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-268 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-268 - Election of trustees.

 The trustees of each Methodist Church shall be elected by ballot by the members of such church, of legal age, on the second Monday of October of each year, at the usual place of worship of such church; or in such other manner as the discipline of the Methodist Church may prescribe. Notice of such election shall be given from the pulpit of such church on at least two Sundays preceding or by having such notice posted on the door of the place of worship by the clerk of the board of trustees at least fifteen days next preceding the time of election, and such trustees shall hold their office until their successors are elected. The polls of such election shall remain open for at least one hour after the time designated in such notice and, in case of failure to elect on the day named in such notice, the election may be held on any subsequent day of the same month after legal notice thereof. If a vacancy occurs in the board of trustees, it may be filled at any special meeting called for that purpose, after giving the notice provided for in this section. At each election there shall be appointed by the electors present a chairman and clerk, who shall act jointly as inspectors of election, receive and count the votes for such trustees and certify under oath who have received the majority of the votes. Whenever the members of any Methodist Church fail to elect trustees as above provided, the quarterly conference of such church may elect trustees to fill the vacancy until the next ensuing annual election; and at each annual election the legal voters shall elect trustees to fill any vacancies for the unexpired terms. Upon the formation of any Methodist Church, the first election of its trustees shall be made by the quarterly conference, and such trustees shall hold office until the next ensuing annual election. Said quarterly conference shall determine the number of trustees to be so elected, which number shall not be more than fifteen nor less than three.(1949 Rev., S. 5377; P.A. 00-92, S. 10.)History: P.A. 00-92 deleted requirement that certificate of votes received be deposited with and kept on file by the town clerk.Powers of bishops; courts follow decision of ecclesiastical tribunal. 73 C. 216.
CT Gen Stat § 33-269 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-269 - Number; term of office.

 The number of trustees of any church specified in section 33-268, which shall in no case be more than fifteen nor less than three, shall be determined by a majority of the electors at the first election by the church and before the votes for trustees are cast, and shall remain the same, unless changed by two-thirds of those present and voting at any subsequent election. At the first annual election the inspectors shall determine by lot, and as nearly as practicable in equal numbers, who of those elected shall serve for one, two or three years. At each election thereafter the electors shall elect trustees for three years to fill the places of those whose terms have expired.(1949 Rev., S. 5378.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-270 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-270 - Organization and powers of trustees. Treasurer's report.

 At their first meeting, after each election, the trustees shall elect from their number a president, a treasurer and a clerk. They shall meet thereafter at such times as they may designate, and shall make bylaws and keep records of their action signed by the clerk. They shall be a corporation to receive and hold in trust, and to sell and convey, property for the benefit of their church, according to the discipline and usages of the religious denomination to which it belongs. At each annual meeting of the members of each Methodist Church, the treasurer shall present to the legal voters a written statement of all the receipts and expenditures of the corporation during the preceding year.(1949 Rev., S. 5379.)
CT Gen Stat § 33-271 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 33 - Corporations|Chapter 598 - Religious Corporations and Societies|Section 33-271 - District superintendent or presiding elder and stewards may form corporation.

 The district superintendent or presiding elder and a majority of the district stewards appointed according to the discipline of the Methodist Church, residing in any ecclesiastical district, the whole or a part of which is in this state, and which has been or shall be created by an annual conference of said church as a district superintendent's or presiding elder's district, may organize a corporation by making, signing and acknowledging before some officer competent to take acknowledgments of deeds, and filing in the office of the Secretary of the State, a certificate in writing in which shall be stated: The corporate name of such corporation; the town in such district in which it is to be located; the names, residences and official relations to the district of the persons signing such certificate; the number of trustees, not less than three nor more than fifteen, who shall manage the property and affairs of such corporation for the first year, and their names; and that the object of such corporation shall be to secure the benefits of this section and sections 33-272, 33-273 and 33-274.(1949 Rev., S. 5380; P.A. 00-92, S. 11.)History: P.A. 00-92 deleted requirement that certificate be filed in the office of the clerk of the town where the corporation is to be located.