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MN Stat § 315.03 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.03 — Certificate Recorded.

315.03 CERTIFICATE RECORDED. The certificate, together with the certificate of acknowledgment, and a copy of the notice of meeting and affidavit of its posting, must be recorded with the county recorder of the county where the society's place of worship is located. When it is filed, the trustees and their successors are a corporate body under the name in the certificate. History:  (7965) RL s 3134; 1937 c 252 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.04 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.04 — Trustees, Powers.

315.04 TRUSTEES, POWERS. The trustees may have a common seal and alter it at pleasure. They may take possession of temporalities of the church, congregation, or society, real and personal, given, granted, or devised, directly or indirectly, to the body or to any other person for their use. They may sue and be sued in their corporate name, recover and hold debts, demands, rights, and privileges, churches, buildings, burial places, and the estate and appurtenances belonging to the church, congregation, or society as fully as though originally vested in them. They may hold, purchase, and receive title to, by gift, grant, devise, or bequest, real or personal property in any amount, for purposes authorized or approved by the congregation or society, as provided in section 315.05, with power to mortgage, sell, convey, demise, lease, and improve it. History:  (7965) RL s 3134; 1937 c 252 s 1; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.05 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.05 — Trustees, Management Powers.

315.05 TRUSTEES, MANAGEMENT POWERS. The trustees may repair and alter churches, make rules and orders for managing the temporal affairs of the church, congregation, or society, and dispose of money belonging to it. They may regulate the renting of pews or slips, and the breaking of ground in their cemeteries. Under the direction or approval of the congregation or society, they may erect, acquire, and operate churches, dwellings for their ministers, and other buildings for the use of the church, congregation, or society, hospitals, nurses' homes and training schools, missions, camps and recreational grounds, and other buildings or facilities for other religious, moral, and charitable activities. They may appoint a clerk and treasurer of their board and a collector, regulate their compensation, and remove them at pleasure. The clerk shall enter rules and orders made by the trustees, and payments ordered by them, in a book kept for that purpose. The trustees may not fix the salary of a minister; it must be fixed by a majority of the society entitled to vote at the election of trustees. Sections 315.03 to 315.05 apply to religious corporations formed under Revised Statutes of the Territory of Minnesota 1851, chapter 36, as amended. History:  (7966, 7968) RL s 3135, 3137; 1937 c 252 s 2; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.06 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.06 — Trustees, Terms, Election; Quorum.

315.06 TRUSTEES, TERMS, ELECTION; QUORUM. The term of office of the trustees is three years or less as prescribed in the constitution or articles, and until their successors have qualified. Unless otherwise provided in the constitution or articles, immediately after their first election they shall be divided by lot into three classes, the first class retiring at the end of the first year, the second class at the end of the second year, and the third class at the end of the third year. After that, as near as may be, one-third of the whole number must be chosen annually. Two trustees may call a meeting of the board. When assembled, a majority of the whole number is a quorum for the transaction of business. Fifteen days before the expiration of the term of office of a trustee, the clerk shall give notice of the election of the trustee's successor, by posting it where the society statedly meets for worship. The notice must state the name of the trustee and the time and place of election. The minister or other officer of the church or society shall give public notice of the election to the congregation again at least one week before the election. These provisions apply to filling vacancies by death, resignation, or removal. History:  (7967) RL s 3136; 1971 c 572 s 1; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.07 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.07 — Voters, Qualifications.

315.07 VOTERS, QUALIFICATIONS. No member of the church, congregation, or society may vote at an election after its incorporation until the member has attended public worship in the church, congregation, or society for at least six months before the election, and contributed to its support according to its customs. The clerk of the trustees shall keep a register of all persons who ask to join the church, congregation, or society note the time of the request, and attend subsequent elections to test the qualifications of voters in case of question. History:  (7968) RL s 3137; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 315.08 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.08 — Definitions.

315.08 DEFINITIONS. In this chapter "society" means the religious body constituted in accordance with the principles of the ecclesiastical polity which forms the basis of the corporation designated in this chapter as the church, congregation, or society, as distinguished from the corporation itself. History:  (7969) RL s 3138; 1925 c 194 s 1; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.09 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.09 — General Powers Of Religious Corporations.

315.09 GENERAL POWERS OF RELIGIOUS CORPORATIONS. A corporation organized under this chapter may, in its corporate name, sue and be sued, hold, purchase, and receive title to, by gift, grant, or other conveyance, property, real or personal, with power to mortgage, sell, or convey it. It may adopt bylaws and make regulations necessary or expedient to manage its affairs in accordance with law. History:  (8001) RL s 3162; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.10 — Powers Of Certain Corporations.

315.10 POWERS OF CERTAIN CORPORATIONS. A religious corporation, parish or diocese formed under sections 315.15 and 315.16 may sue or be sued, hold, purchase, and receive title to, by devise, purchase, gift, grant, or otherwise, real or personal property, and mortgage, sell, or convey it, or part of it, without giving notice or being authorized as required in section 315.12. History:  (7964) 1907 c 60 s 1; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.11 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.11 — Limitation Of Right To Hold Property.

315.11 LIMITATION OF RIGHT TO HOLD PROPERTY. A religious corporation may not take or hold real or personal property for purposes other than those of its incorporation. The amount of property it may hold is subject to any limitation or modification enacted by general laws. History:  (8002) RL s 3163; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.12 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.12 — Sale Or Encumbrance Of Real Estate.

315.12 SALE OR ENCUMBRANCE OF REAL ESTATE. A religious corporation organized under this chapter, by and through its trustees, may sell and convey, encumber, or otherwise dispose of real estate. To do so, the trustees must first be authorized by resolution of the society adopted by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting at a meeting called for that purpose. Notice of the time, place, and object of the meeting must be given for at least four successive Sabbaths immediately before it on which the society statedly meets for public worship. When a religious society ceases to have stated meetings for public worship, or is unable to give notice of the time and place of the meeting, the corporation may make the sale, conveyance, or encumbrance by its trustees, upon being authorized by resolution adopted at a meeting of which at least 20 days' posted notice has been given. If the society has, for any reason, ceased to exist, for a period of one year, the corporation may sell and convey its property by its trustees upon giving at least 20 days' posted notice upon the premises of its intention to do so. Proof of nonexistence, notice, meeting, and the adoption of resolution may be made by the affidavit of a trustee or member of the society cognizant of them. The affidavit must be recorded with the county recorder where the certificate of incorporation was recorded, and the affidavit and record, or certified copies of it, are presumptive evidence of the facts they contain. No person shall vote at a meeting called to authorize the trustees to sell, convey, encumber, or dispose of the corporation's real estate unless the person is a member of the religious body. No religious corporation shall sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of its real estate except as provided by the denominational rules and certificates of association of the society as it appears of record in the office of the county recorder of the county. This section does not limit sections 500.01 to 500.20. History:  (7969) RL s 3138; 1925 c 194 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.121 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.121 — Religious Corporations, Certain Conveyances Validated.

315.121 RELIGIOUS CORPORATIONS, CERTAIN CONVEYANCES VALIDATED. All conveyances executed by any religious corporation or society organized under this chapter, conveying real property within this state that have been of record for more than six years in the office of the county recorder or registrar of titles of the county in which the real estate conveyed is located, and the record of the conveyance, are legalized, validated, and confirmed, even though the corporate records do not disclose that the execution of the conveyance was authorized by the congregation of the religious corporation in the manner provided by law, or the record of the authorization has not been recorded in the office of the county recorder or registrar of titles of the county in which the real estate conveyed is located, or the certificate or any other document specified by section 315.03 has not been recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the real estate is located or in which the place of worship of the corporation or society is located. History:  1990 c 575 s 2; 1997 c 9 s 1; 1998 c 262 s 1
MN Stat § 315.13 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.13 — Existing Societies Confirmed; Reorganization.

315.13 EXISTING SOCIETIES CONFIRMED; REORGANIZATION. Every church, congregation, or religious society incorporated before the effective date of Revised Statutes of the Territory of Minnesota, 1851, under any general or special law, and not since dissolved, is confirmed. A corporation formed under this chapter and dissolved may reincorporate under this chapter within six years after dissolution. When it does, its real and personal property vests in the corporation as though there had been no dissolution. History:  (7970) RL s 3139; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.14 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.14 — Lands Held In Trust.

315.14 LANDS HELD IN TRUST. If lands, tenements, or hereditaments are conveyed by devise, grant, purchase, or otherwise, to persons as trustees in trust for the use of a religious society, for a meeting house, burial ground, or parsonage, with the improvements on them, they shall descend in perpetual succession, and be held by the trustees in trust for the society. History:  (7971) RL s 3140; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.15 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.15 — Parish Corporations, Organization.

315.15 PARISH CORPORATIONS, ORGANIZATION. The bishop of a religious denomination may join with the vicar general of the diocese and the pastor of the parish where the corporation is to be located, within the bishop's diocese for the purpose of incorporating. The bishop, vicar general, and pastor, or a majority of them, shall designate and join with two lay members of the denomination. These five shall adopt, sign, and acknowledge a certificate of incorporation reciting the fact of association, and the selection of lay members, and containing the name, general purpose, and place of location of the corporation. When they have recorded the certificate with the county recorder of the county where the corporation is located, they and their successors become a corporation, subject to the requirements, and with the rights, powers, and privileges, of a religious corporation. The persons at any time holding the offices specified in any diocese are, by virtue of their respective offices, members of the corporation and, with the two lay members, constitute it, but on ceasing to hold office, they cease to be members, and their successors in office become members. The two lay members designated remain members for two years from the date of the certificate, after that their term of office is two years, in either case until their successors are chosen. They must always be designated and appointed by the bishop, vicar general, and pastor, who shall also fill vacancies in their number. Their appointment must be in writing and entered upon the records of the corporation. If there is a vacancy in the office of bishop of any diocese, or if another person is appointed in the bishop's stead to administer the spiritual and temporal affairs of the diocese, then, during the vacancy or suspension of authority, the administrator of the affairs of the diocese, or any other person appointed under the rules of the denomination to preside over and administer its affairs, is, while acting as administrator or appointee, a member of the corporation, with the rights and powers of membership; but the membership ends when the vacancy is filled or suspension of authority removed. If a diocese in which the corporation is located is subdivided according to the rules and practice of the denomination, and one or more new dioceses formed from it or its parts, the bishop and vicar general of the new diocese and their successors in office, as soon as appointed and instituted, by virtue of their respective offices, immediately become members of the corporation within the new diocese, with the rights, duties, privileges, powers, and obligations of members. The bishop and vicar general of the diocese where the corporation was located before the subdivision cease to be members of the corporation. History:  (7975) RL s 3144; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1984 c 618 s 24; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.16 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.16 — Diocesan Corporations; Formation; Powers.

315.16 DIOCESAN CORPORATIONS; FORMATION; POWERS. Subdivision 1. Procedure for incorporating. The bishop of a diocese may join with the vicar general and chancellor of the diocese. They, or a majority of them, shall designate and join with two other members of the religious denomination, residents of the diocese. These five shall adopt, sign, and acknowledge, in duplicate, a certificate reciting the fact of association and selection of the two persons, and containing the name, general purpose, and location of the corporation. When they file and record it, as provided in section 315.15, they and their successors become a corporation. The corporation has power to take, hold, receive, and dispose of real or personal property for the use and benefit of the diocese, and for the use and benefit of the religious denomination creating the diocese, and to administer the temporalities of the diocese, to establish and conduct schools, seminaries, colleges, or benevolent, charitable, religious, or missionary work or society of religious denomination within the diocese, with the rights, powers, and privileges enumerated in this section and in section 315.15. Subd. 2. Term of membership. The persons who hold the offices, respectively, of bishop, vicar general, and chancellor of the religious denomination in the diocese, and their successors in office are members of the corporation. On ceasing to hold office the corporate membership of each at once ends. The other two incorporators and their successors in office must always be selected and appointed by the bishop, vicar general, and chancellor of the diocese, or a majority of them, for the same term and in the same manner as provided in section 315.15 for the selection and appointment of the two lay members by the bishop, vicar general, and pastor. Vacancies must be filled by the three first named incorporators. An appointment must be in writing and entered of record in the minutes of the corporation, and appointees must be members of the religious denomination and residents of the diocese of its location. Any incorporator selected may at any time resign. The resignation and its acceptance must be entered on the minutes of the corporation. In case of a vacancy in the office of bishop of the diocese or the temporary suspension of the bishop's authority to act, the relevant provisions of section 315.15 apply. Subd. 3. Proxies. A member of either corporation specified in this section and in section 315.15 may, by a signed writing, appoint a proxy to represent the member and to vote in the member's place at a corporation meeting. Subd. 4. Cemetery corporations. A religious corporation may be formed in the manner set forth in this section to establish cemeteries in accordance with section 307.01. History:  (7976) RL s 3145; 1969 c 368 s 1; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 315.17 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.17 — Parish Of Protestant Episcopal Church.

315.17 PARISH OF PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Subdivision 1. Formation of corporation. A parish of the Protestant Episcopal church organized under and in conformity with the constitution and canons of any diocese in this state may form a corporation, as follows. The parish shall prepare a certificate containing: (1) the name and location of the parish; (2) the name of the rector, if any, and of the church wardens, and the names and number of the vestry members, which must be at least three, and not more than 12; and (3) the date of the organization of the parish. Subd. 2. Certificate signed. The certificate must be signed and acknowledged by the rector, if any, and by a majority of the wardens and vestry members. Subd. 3. Recording certificate; powers. Upon signing, acknowledging, and recording the certificate with the county recorder of the county of its location, the parish becomes a corporation by the name specified in its certificate. Through its officers, it may transact parish business, including calling a rector and determining the rector's salary. In its corporate name, it may acquire or receive, by purchase, gift, grant, devise, or bequest, any property, real, personal, or mixed, and hold, sell, transfer, mortgage, convey, loan, let, or otherwise use the property for the use and benefit of the parish if the use does not contravene the laws and usages of the Protestant Episcopal church of the state. It may not divert a gift, grant, or bequest from the purpose specified in writing by the donor, or devisor. It may not sell, convey, or mortgage its church or church site unless first authorized so to do in a meeting of the parish called for that purpose, nor in contravention of the canons of the diocese or of the general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church of the United States. History:  (7977, 7978) RL s 3146, 3147; 1921 c 255 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1; 2005 c 4 s 47
MN Stat § 315.18 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.18 — Annual Meeting; Vestry, Election, Meetings.

315.18 ANNUAL MEETING; VESTRY, ELECTION, MEETINGS. The annual meeting of the corporation must be held at the parish church or parish house, if there is either, on Easter Monday of each year, or at a time set by the parish in its articles of incorporation. At the annual meeting church wardens and vestry members must be elected, in a manner determined by the parish, by electors with the qualifications prescribed by the canons of the Protestant Episcopal church for the diocese or missionary district in which the corporation is located. A parish organized under this law may, at any annual meeting, adopt a bylaw providing for the election of one-third of the vestry members of the parish for one year, one-third for two years, and one-third for three years, and at the meeting may elect vestry members in accordance with the bylaw. At each succeeding annual meeting one-third of the vestry members must be elected for a term of three years. The bylaws may also provide that no vestry member, at the expiration of the member's term of office, is eligible for reelection to the vestry until the next annual meeting. The church wardens and vestry members shall hold office until successors are elected. The rector of the parish is ex officio a member, and, when present, the presiding officer of the vestry, and entitled to vote at its meetings. Meetings may be called by the rector at the rector's discretion, or by either warden at the request of a majority of the vestry members, on three days' notice, in writing, to each member of the vestry. History:  (7979, 7981) RL s 3148, 3149; 1907 c 18; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 315.19 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 315 — Religious Societies|Section 315.19 — Articles Amended.

315.19 ARTICLES AMENDED. A parish of the Protestant Episcopal church, incorporated under the laws of the state or territory of Minnesota, may amend its articles of incorporation and change and fix the time of its annual parish meeting. To do so, it must adopt, at its annual parish meeting by majority vote of those present, a resolution fixing or changing the date of its annual parish meeting. It must put the resolution in a certificate executed by its rector or other presiding officer and by its clerk and record the certificate with the county recorder of the county of its location. History:  (7980) 1923 c 369 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1985 c 265 art 5 s 1; 2005 c 4 s 48