reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
NJ Rev Stat § 15A:15-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 15A - Corporations, Nonprofit|Section 15A:15-2 - Additional miscellaneous fees

15A:15-2 Additional miscellaneous fees  15A:15-2. Additional Miscellaneous Fees. The State Treasurer shall also charge and collect for: a. filing an application to reserve a specified corporate name and issuing a certificate of reservation $50.00 (1) if application is for first name available for corporate use among not more than three specified names $50.00 b. filing a notice of transfer of a reserved  corporate name $50.00 c. filing an application by a foreign corporation to register its corporate name $50.00 d. filing an application by a foreign corporation to renew the registration of its corporate name $50.00 e. issuing a certificate of standing, including registered agent and registered office $25.00 f. issuing a certificate of standing, same as above, but including incorporators, officers and trustees $25.00 g. issuing a certificate of standing, listing charter documents $25.00 h. issuing a certificate of availability of corporate name (1 to 3 names) $25.00 i. filing a certificate of registration of alternate name $50.00 j. filing a certificate of renewal of registration of alternate name $50.00 k. filing a certificate of correction $50.00 l. corporate status reports--per name $5.00 L.1983, c.127, s.15A:15-2, eff. Oct. 1, 1983; amended 1987, c.435, s.13; 2002, c.34, s.24.
NJ Rev Stat § 15A:16-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 15A - Corporations, Nonprofit|Section 15A:16-2 - Acts repealed

15A:16-2. Acts repealed  The following are repealed: R.S. 15:1-1 to R.S. 15:1-5 inclusive; R.S. 15:1-7 to R.S. 15:1-14.1 inclusive; R.S. 15:1-16 to R.S. 15:1-22 inclusive; R.S. 15:2-1 to R.S. 15:2-9 inclusive; R.S. 15:3-1 to R.S. 15:3-12 inclusive; R.S. 15:6-1 to R.S. 15:6-3 inclusive; R.S. 15:7-1 to R.S. 15:7-12 inclusive; R.S. 15:8-1 to R.S. 15:8-3 inclusive; R.S. 15:8-6 and R.S. 15:8-8; R.S. 15:10-1 to R.S. 15:10-11 inclusive; R.S. 15:11-1 to R.S. 15:11-6 inclusive; R.S. 15:11-9 to R.S. 15:11-15 inclusive; R.S. 15:12-1; R.S. 15:13-1 and R.S. 15:13-2; R.S. 15:14-1 to R.S. 15:14-8 inclusive; R.S. 15:15-1 and R.S. 15:15-2; R.S. 15:16-1 to R.S. 15:16-6 inclusive; P.L. 1947, c. 100 (C. 15:1-11.1); P.L. 1945, c. 109, ss. 1 to 4 inclusive (C. 15:8-9 to C. 15:8-12 inclusive); P.L. 1946, c. 226 (C. 15:17-1 and C. 15:17-2). L.1983, c. 127, s. 15A:16-2, eff. Oct. 1, 1983.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-1 - Incorporation of religious societies or congregations.

16:1-1 Incorporation of religious societies or congregations.  16:1-1. Members of every religious society or congregation, entitled to protection in the free use of their religion by the constitution and laws of this State, may assemble at their usual place of meeting for public worship, at any time agreed upon by them, after at least ten days' notice of the time and purpose of assembling, given by an advertisement set up in open view at or near the place of meeting and when so assembled a plurality of votes of the members of such society or congregation over 18 years of age who regularly contribute to its support and who are present at such meeting, may elect any number of such society or congregation to be its trustees for the purpose of incorporating such society or congregation as provided in section 16:1-2 of this title. Amended 2007, c.231.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-2 - Certificate; contents; recording; effect on corporate existence

16:1-2. Certificate; contents; recording; effect on corporate existence  The trustees shall make a certificate, under their hands and seals, of the name they take upon themselves, and shall transmit such certificate to the county clerk, who shall forthwith record the same, for which service he shall be entitled to receive the fee provided in section 22:2-19 of the title Fees and Costs. Thereupon the trustees and their successors shall be a corporation by the name stated in the certificate.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-3 - Certain religious societies authorized to file record with secretary of state

16:1-3. Certain religious societies authorized to file record with secretary of state  Where the trustees of any religious society, pursuant to the provisions of an act entitled "An act to incorporate trustees of religious societies," approved April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, and further, pursuant to the provisions of an act entitled "A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate trustees of religious societies,' approved April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five," which said further supplement was approved April ninth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and further, pursuant to the provisions of an act entitled "A further supplement to an act entitled "An act to incorporate trustees of religious societies,' approved April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five," which said further supplement was approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall have recorded their certificate of incorporation with the county clerk of the county setting forth the name by which they and their successors shall be known and distinguished as a body, but have failed to file and record said certificate with the secretary of state, any such corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to file a certified copy of said certificate of incorporation with the secretary of state, and upon the filing of such certificate as aforesaid, the incorporation and all de facto acts done in pursuance thereof are hereby validated, ratified and confirmed.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-4 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-4 - Powers

16:1-4. Powers  Every religious society or congregation incorporated by virtue of any law of this state shall have power to: a. Have perpetual succession as such corporation; b. Sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court; c. Adopt and use a common seal and alter and renew the same at pleasure; d. Appoint such officers, agents and employees as may be required for its properties, institutions and business; e. Make by-laws and rules consistent with law, for the regulation and management of its affairs, properties and institutions; f. Acquire, purchase, receive, have and hold and take by devise, bequest or gift without limit, real and personal property of all kinds, church edifices, schoolhouses, college buildings, parsonages, sisters' houses, hospitals, orphan asylums, and all other kinds of religious, ecclesiastical, educational and charitable institutions, and the lands whereon the same are or may be erected, and cemeteries or burial places, and any real estate suitable for any or all of said purposes; g. Lease, grant, sell and dispose of all or any part of such property; h. Borrow money for the purposes of the corporation, and to give bonds and mortgages therefor on any part of its property; i. Have the management, direction and control of all the civil and temporal affairs of the congregation, church or parish; and j. Exercise any corporate powers necessary and proper for the carrying out of the above-enumerated powers and the purposes of the corporation and its institutions.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-5 - Corporate action by majority of members; presence in person; validity

16:1-5. Corporate action by majority of members; presence in person; validity  The proceedings, orders and acts of a majority of the members of such corporation present in person at any duly convened annual or special meeting, but not of a less number shall be valid and effectual. Amended by L.1955, c. 124, p. 605, s. 1, eff. July 8, 1955.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-6 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-6 - Property; power of sale; authorization

16:1-6. Property; power of sale; authorization  The trustees of any church or religious society and their successors in office or a majority of them are authorized and empowered to sell at public or private sale and convey in fee simple or otherwise all the church and parsonage property of such church or religious society together with all the estate, right, title and interest which the said trustees or stewards or other officers now have or may have in the same by virtue of any deeds of conveyance or otherwise, if the sale is authorized and directed by a majority of the members present at any meeting called by the trustees and held at its usual place of public worship, after at least ten days' notice of the time and place and object of such meeting, by advertisement set up in open view at or near the place of meeting, which notice shall be signed by the president and secretary of the board of trustees or by a majority of the trustees.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-7 - Land for cemetery or burial purposes; acquisition and disposition

16:1-7. Land for cemetery or burial purposes; acquisition and disposition  Any religious society, however incorporated, may hold and convey and dispose of land, not exceeding fifty acres which was, before April twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, conveyed to it for the purposes of a cemetery and the burial of the dead, and may sell the same in lots or plots for the burial of deceased persons, subject to the laws of this state governing cemeteries and the burial of the dead. The society may devote the moneys derived from such sale to the laying out, care and maintenance of the cemetery or burial ground and for no other purpose. When the moneys received from sales of lots shall exceed the sum needed for the proper care and maintenance of its burial grounds, the surplus may be invested in safe and suitable securities and the interest derived therefrom shall be devoted to the care and maintenance of its burial grounds and for no other purpose.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-7.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-7.1 - Prohibitions relative to religious entities; terms defined.

16:1-7.1 Prohibitions relative to religious entities; terms defined.  1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a religious corporation, association, organization or society, however formed or incorporated, that owns or controls a cemetery or that engages in the management, operation or sales of or for a cemetery, whether directly or indirectly, or the owner or operator of a religious cemetery, is prohibited from engaging, directly or indirectly, in: (1) the ownership, manufacture, installation, sale, creation, inscription, provision or conveyance, in any form, of memorials; (2) the ownership, manufacture, installation, sale, creation, provision or conveyance, in any form, of vaults, including vaults installed in a grave before or after sale and including vaults joined with each other in the ground; (3) the ownership, manufacture, installation, sale, creation, provision or conveyance, in any form, of a mausoleum intended for private use, which shall not include a mausoleum built for use by or sale to the general public membership of a religious organization; (4) the ownership or conduct of any funeral home or mortuary, or the engaging in the business or profession of funeral directing or mortuary science; (5) the sale, renting or leasing of any of its real property dedicated to cemetery purposes, for the location of a funeral home or mortuary or the conduct of the business or profession of funeral directing or mortuary science; or (6) the entering into a management contract to authorize control of its cemetery related operations with any entity that, directly or indirectly, in this State, engages in the ownership or conduct of a funeral home or mortuary or that engages in the business or profession of funeral directing or mortuary science. b. As used in this act: (1) "funeral directing," "mortuary" and "mortuary science" shall have the same meanings as set forth in section 3 of P.L.1952, c.340 (C.45:7-34); and (2) "mausoleum," "memorial" and "vault" shall have the same meanings as set forth in section 2 of P.L.2003, c.261 (C.45:27-2). L.2015, c.30, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-8 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-8 - Election of trustees; tenure

16:1-8. Election of trustees; tenure  Any religious society or congregation may, at the meeting for the election of trustees, provide, by by-law or resolution, for the election of its trustees for 3 years. In such event the number of trustees shall be fixed at the first election under this section by such society or congregation and shall be divided, as near as can be, into 3 equal numbers, 1 part of which shall be elected for 1 year, 1 part for 2 years, and 1 part for 3 years, and annually thereafter the terms of those expiring shall be filled for a period of 3 years. Amended by L.1955, c. 124, p. 605, s. 2, eff. July 8, 1955.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-10 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-10 - Annual meeting; notice; procedure

16:1-10. Annual meeting; notice; procedure  The annual meetings for the election of trustees and officers shall be called by the board of trustees of such religious society or congregation upon ten days' notice, signed by the secretary of the board and posted as required in section 16:1-1 of this Title. The meeting when convened shall select its own officers and determine its own rules of procedure. Amended by L.1955, c. 124, p. 606, s. 6, eff. July 8, 1955.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-11 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-11 - Trustees of corporations incorporated under special act; qualifications

16:1-11. Trustees of corporations incorporated under special act; qualifications  In the election of the trustees of any religious society incorporated by special act, it shall not be necessary that the trustees be members of the church in which the corporation exists, if they are attending members of the congregation and contribute to the support of the church, but at least a majority of the trustees elected shall be members of the church in good and regular standing.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-12 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-12 - Change of time and place of annual meeting of church incorporated under special act

16:1-12. Change of time and place of annual meeting of church incorporated under special act  Any church or religious society incorporated by special act prior to March twenty-second, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, may, at any annual meeting, designate, by a majority present duly qualified to vote, the time and place at which it will hold its annual meeting thereafter, any special law to the contrary notwithstanding. This section shall not apply to the Protestant Episcopal Church.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-13.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-13.1 - Election of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, other officers; dual capacity as officer and trustee; tenure

16:1-13.1. Election of president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, other officers; dual capacity as officer and trustee; tenure  Any religious society or congregation may elect, in the same manner and at the same time as trustees are elected, a president, a vice-president, a secretary, and a treasurer, and such other officers as the by-laws may require to be elected by the congregation. No officer or trustee shall serve in the dual capacity of officer and trustee but the officers elected shall be members of the board of trustees during the term of their respective offices. The officers so elected shall hold office until the next annual meeting of the congregation and until their successors are elected. L.1955, c. 124, p. 606, s. 3, eff. July 8, 1955.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-13.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-13.2 - Vacancies

16:1-13.2. Vacancies  In the event of any vacancy on the board of trustees or among the officers occasioned by the death, resignation, moving out of the limits of such society or congregation, or any other cause or reason, such vacancy may be filled for the unexpired term by the trustees unless the by-laws expressly provide that any such vacancy shall be filled by the congregation. L.1955, c. 124, p. 606, s. 4, eff. July 8, 1955.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-13.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-13.3 - Qualifications of trustees and officers; members entitled to vote

16:1-13.3. Qualifications of trustees and officers; members entitled to vote  Any religious society or congregation recognizing no superior judicatory may provide in its by-laws the qualifications for its trustees and officers and may further provide therein the qualifications of members entitled to vote for trustees and officers. Such provisions shall be effective only when adopted by 2/3 majority of the members entitled to vote, who shall be present and voting at a meeting of which notice has been given as prescribed by section 16:1-1 of the time, place and purpose of such meeting. L.1955, c. 124, p. 606, s. 5, eff. July 8, 1955.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-14 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-14 - Convening of corporation and execution of contracts

16:1-14. Convening of corporation and execution of contracts  The president may convene the corporation as occasion may require, preside at the meetings and execute all contracts. In his absence, sickness, death, resignation, refusal to act, or removal out of the limits of the religious society or congregation, his office shall devolve on the vice-president or the officer designated in the by-laws for the purpose, who shall occupy the same until the return or recovery of the president, or the election of another. Amended by L.1955, c. 124, p. 607, s. 7.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-15 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-15 - Secretary; duties; delivery of records when office expires; access to records

16:1-15. Secretary; duties; delivery of records when office expires; access to records  The secretary shall keep the minutes and enter the orders, acts and proceedings in a book kept for that purpose. He shall have custody of the common seal, and of the papers, deeds, writings, documents and books of or relating to the corporation. Upon the death, resignation, removal or expiration of the office of secretary, or election of a new one, the common seal and all minutes, papers, deeds, writings, documents and books of or belonging to such corporation shall be delivered to his successor in office, on the oath of the preceding secretary, or in case of his death, on the oath of his executors or administrators, so far as the executors or administrators have or may reasonably acquire knowledge thereof, under such pecuniary penalty as said corporation shall have previously fixed, to be recovered by civil action in the name and for the use of the corporation. Upon application to the secretary, any member of the religious society or congregation shall have free access to all such papers, deeds, writings, minutes, documents and books. Amended by L.1953, c. 16, p. 140, s. 1, eff. March 19, 1953.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-16 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-16 - Treasurer; duties; delivery of records when term expires

16:1-16. Treasurer; duties; delivery of records when term expires  The treasurer shall have charge of the money of the corporation and shall keep a correct account of its receipt and disbursement. At each annual election for officers he shall render to the society a statement, in writing, of the receipts and disbursements of the corporation for the preceding year. Upon his death, resignation, removal or the expiration of his office, or election of his successor, all the books, accounts, vouchers and documents in the hands of the treasurer, belonging to the corporation, shall be delivered to his successor in office.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-18 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-18 - Corporate changes; name; number of officers or trustees; tenure

16:1-18. Corporate changes; name; number of officers or trustees; tenure  Any religious corporation, incorporated by general or special act, may change its corporate name by a two-thirds vote of those present and entitled to vote at any regular meeting, or at a special meeting duly called for that purpose in the manner its meetings are usually called, specifying by such vote the new corporate name. Thereafter the corporation shall be known by the new name, and shall, by the new name, have, hold and retain all its property, and enjoy the same rights, privileges and powers and be subject to the same liabilities as if no change had been made. Any change in the number of officers and managers or trustees, and the terms of their office, which may be considered expedient for the interests of the corporation, may be made by a majority vote at any regular meeting, and any new departments of religious work not specified in the act of incorporation may be established and maintained by a similar vote, at any regular meeting. This section shall not apply to the Protestant Episcopal Church.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-19 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-19 - Certificate of change; filing

16:1-19. Certificate of change; filing  Whenever any change provided for in section 16:1-18 of this title is made, a certificate thereof, over the hand of the presiding officer of the corporation and attested by its secretary, shall be filed with the secretary of state within thirty days after such change is made, for which filing the secretary of state shall be entitled to receive the fee provided in section 22:4-1 of the title Fees and Costs. This section shall not apply to the Protestant Episcopal Church.
NJ Rev Stat § 16:1-20 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 16 - Corporations and Associations, Religious|Section 16:1-20 - Consolidation; procedure

16:1-20. Consolidation; procedure  Whenever two or more incorporated religious societies of the same denomination agree to consolidate or unite into one, with the approval thereof by the presbytery, classis or other like governing body of their denomination within whose jurisdiction they are located, the trustees, or other like bodies of the two societies, may make a certificate under the seal of each corporation, signed by the president and attested by the secretary of each, setting forth that such societies have consolidated or united and the name selected for the new organization, which certificate shall be transmitted to the clerk of the county in which they are located, who shall forthwith record the same. Thereupon the societies shall be consolidated or united into one corporation under the name so selected.