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WY Stat § 17-3-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 3 - Practice of Professions by Corporations|Section 17-3-102 - Licensed Stockholder or Employee Subject to Certain Requirements.

17-3-102. Licensed stockholder or employee subject to certain requirements.| No corporation may offer professional services or practice a profession except by and through the person or persons of its licensed stockholder or stockholders, or licensed employees, each of whom shall retain his professional license in good standing, and shall remain as fully liable and responsible for his professional activities, and subject to all rules, regulations, standards and requirements pertaining thereto, as though practicing individually rather than in a corporation.
WY Stat § 17-3-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 3 - Practice of Professions by Corporations|Section 17-3-103 - Words or Initials to Be Contained in Corporate Name.

17-3-103. Words or initials to be contained in corporate name.| The corporate name of every professional corporation shall contain either the words "A Professional Corporation" or the capital initials "P.C.". These words or initials shall be the last word of the name of the professional corporation.
WY Stat § 17-3-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 3 - Practice of Professions by Corporations|Section 17-3-104 - Language to Be Contained in Articles of Incorporation; Location.

17-3-104. Language to be contained in articles of incorporation; location.| The articles of incorporation of a professional practice corporation incorporated after the date of this act shall contain the following language: "All shareholders of the corporation are, and will continually be, licensed in the profession for which the corporation is formed, and no professional service will be offered by the corporation except by or under the supervision of licensed stockholders or licensed employees." This language shall be inserted in the articles immediately after the provisions pertaining to the aggregate number of shares which the corporation is authorized to issue.
WY Stat § 17-8-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-101 - Incorporation by Churches, Parishes and Societies Having Governing Body; Purposes Generally.

17-8-101. Incorporation by churches, parishes and societies having governing body; purposes generally.| Churches, parishes, and societies of all religious bodies, sects, or denominations in this state, or a board of trustees of such churches, parishes, and societies of all religious bodies, having an episcopate, presbytery, synod, conference or other governing body, with spiritual jurisdiction extending over the whole state, or part thereof not less than six (6) counties, may become incorporated for religious, missionary, educational or charitable purposes in the manner hereinafter provided; or said incorporation may be limited to the purposes of acquiring and holding the legal title to property, real and personal, required for the use of such churches, parishes, or societies, or any of them, or of such general governing body, and for the purpose of conveying the same, and contracting with reference thereto.
WY Stat § 17-8-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-102 - Organization Meeting; Officers.

17-8-102. Organization meeting; officers.| The chief or presiding or executive officer of the religious bodies, sects or denominations mentioned in the preceding section may, at such place in this state as he may appoint for the purpose, convene a meeting of himself and some other officer or officers, subordinate to himself, but having general jurisdiction throughout the state, or part of the state aforesaid, and one (1) or more priests, ministers or clergymen of the proposed church, parish or society, and at least two (2) laymen resident within the limits thereof, of which meeting the said chief or presiding or executive officer shall be president and one (1) of the other persons present shall be secretary.
WY Stat § 17-8-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-103 - Contents, Execution and Filing of Articles of Incorporation; Competency to Transact Business in Corporate Name.

17-8-103. Contents, execution and filing of articles of incorporation; competency to transact business in corporate name.| (a) The said five (5) or more persons, being so convened and organized as a meeting, shall adopt articles of incorporation which shall fix:  (i) The name of the church, parish or society so incorporated, or the name of the church, parish or society in whose behalf or interest the corporation is formed;  (ii) The object and purpose of the incorporation;  (iii) The amount of debts which it shall be competent to contract, beyond which amount the corporation shall have no power to contract debts binding at law or equity upon it, its members or its property;  (iv) The manner in which it may contract and become bound for debts and may convey, encumber or change its property;  (v) The manner in which the succession of the members of said corporation shall be regulated and vacancies in their number filled;  (vi) The time of the commencement and the termination of the corporation;  (vii) By what officers its affairs shall be conducted.  (b) Which articles, being subscribed and acknowledged by the persons present at said meeting and filed in the office of the secretary of state, and recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county where such church, parish or society shall be located, whereupon such corporation shall be competent to transact all business in any by its corporate name.
WY Stat § 17-8-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-104 - Authority to Make Bylaws.

17-8-104. Authority to make bylaws.| Every incorporation under this act shall be authorized to make such bylaws as may be necessary to carry into effect fully all the purposes of such incorporation; provided, the same be not in conflict with the constitution of the United States, the laws of congress or of this state.
WY Stat § 17-8-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-105 - Corporators and Members of Corporation.

17-8-105. Corporators and members of corporation.| The persons attending said meeting shall be the corporators and members of the corporation until their places may be supplied by and under the provisions of the articles of incorporation.
WY Stat § 17-8-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-106 - Incorporation by Body of Christians for Purposes of Education, Benevolence, Charity and Missions.

17-8-106. Incorporation by body of Christians for purposes of education, benevolence, charity and missions.| If any body of Christians has or shall have, according to its order or mode of government, an organization, whether known as synod, presbytery, conference, episcopate or other name, with ecclesiastical or spiritual jurisdiction over its members throughout this state, and its authorities shall desire to engage in work of education, benevolence, charity and missions, which works shall be of like extensive operation and benefit, and not of limited or local service, and they shall deem an incorporation convenient for the more successful operation of said works, all, or any of them, its said authorities, with such persons as they may associate with them, may cause such incorporation to be formed in the manner and with the powers hereinbefore provided for the incorporation of a church, congregation or society.
WY Stat § 17-8-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-107 - Applicability of General Corporation Laws.

17-8-107. Applicability of general corporation laws.| Corporations organized under the provisions of this act shall be subject to the laws of this state in respect to corporations which are applicable to them, save as herein expressly provided.
WY Stat § 17-8-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-108 - Incorporation for Establishing Benevolent Institutions and for Holding Real and Personal Property.

17-8-108. Incorporation for establishing benevolent institutions and for holding real and personal property.| If any presbytery, synod, conference, episcopate or other ecclesiastical body or association of Christians having jurisdiction over its members throughout the state, or a part thereof, extending over at least four (4) counties, and its authorities shall desire to establish missions, churches and other benevolent institutions and in this behalf to acquire property real and personal to aid in extending its spiritual jurisdiction and charities, and shall deem an incorporation necessary or convenient for the more effective accomplishment of its general objects, its authorities may cause such incorporation to be formed in the manner and with all the powers now provided by law for the incorporation of churches, congregations or societies and such other powers as are incident and necessary to the successful performance of any or all its objects.
WY Stat § 17-8-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-109 - Corporations; Purposes for Which Such Corporations May Be Formed.

17-8-109. Corporations; purposes for which such corporations may be formed.| Corporations may be formed for acquiring, holding or disposing of church or religious society property, for the benefit of religion, for works of charity and for public worship in the manner hereinafter provided.
WY Stat § 17-8-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-110 - Corporations; Execution, Acknowledgment and Filing of Articles of Incorporation.

17-8-110. Corporations; execution, acknowledgment and filing of articles of incorporation.| Any person being the archbishop, bishop, president, trustee in trust, president of stake, president of congregation, overseer, presiding elder, or clergyman, of any church or religious society, who shall have been duly chosen, elected or appointed, in conformity with the constitution, canons, rites, regulations, or discipline of said church or religious society, and in whom shall be vested the legal title to the property of such church or religious society, may make and subscribe written articles of incorporation in duplicate, acknowledge the same before some officer authorized to take acknowledgment, and file one (1) of such articles in the office of the secretary of state, and retain possession of the other.
WY Stat § 17-8-111 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-111 - Corporations; Contents of Articles of Incorporation; Amendment of Articles.

17-8-111. Corporations; contents of articles of incorporation; amendment of articles.| (a) The articles of incorporation shall specify:  (i) The name of the corporation, by which it shall be known;  (ii) The object of said corporation;  (iii) The estimated value of the property at the time of making the articles of incorporation;  (iv) The title of the person making such articles. Any corporation so formed shall have power from time to time to alter or amend its articles of incorporation; such amendment shall be made by the corporation sole, and executed by the same person who executed the original articles of incorporation, or by his successor in office, and shall be filed and recorded in the same office and in the same manner as is provided for filing the original articles.
WY Stat § 17-8-112 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-112 - Corporations; Creation and Powers Generally.

17-8-112. Corporations; creation and powers generally.| Upon making and filing for record articles of incorporation as herein provided, the person subscribing the same, and his successor in office by the name or title specified in the articles, shall thereafter be deemed, and is hereby created, a body politic and a corporation sole, with continual perpetual succession, and shall have power to acquire and possess, by donation, gift, bequest, devise, or purchase, and to hold and maintain property, real, personal, and mixed, and to grant, sell, convey, rent, or otherwise dispose of the same as may be necessary to carry on or promote the objects of the corporation; and shall have authority to borrow money and to give written obligations therefor, and to secure the payment thereof by mortgage or other lien, upon real or personal property, when necessary to promote said objects.
WY Stat § 17-8-113 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-113 - Corporations; Other Powers.

17-8-113. Corporations; other powers.| Such corporation shall have the power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, plead and be pleaded in all courts of justice, and to have and use a common seal by which all deeds and acts of such corporation may be authenticated.
WY Stat § 17-8-114 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-114 - Corporations; Execution of Deeds and Other Written Instruments.

17-8-114. Corporations; execution of deeds and other written instruments.| All deeds and other instruments of writing shall be made in the name of the corporation and signed by the person representing the corporation, in the official capacity designated in the articles of incorporation, and be sealed with the seal of the corporation, an impression of which seal shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.
WY Stat § 17-8-115 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-115 - Corporations; Evidence of Corporate Existence.

17-8-115. Corporations; evidence of corporate existence.| The articles of incorporation, or a certified copy of those filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state, shall be evidence of the existence of such corporation.
WY Stat § 17-8-116 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-116 - Corporations; Vesting of Title to Property in Successor; Filing of Certified Copy of Commission by Successor.

17-8-116. Corporations; vesting of title to property in successor; filing of certified copy of commission by successor.| In the event of the death or resignation of any such archbishop, bishop, president, trustee in trust, president of stake, president of congregation, overseer, presiding elder, or clergyman, or of his removal therefrom by the person or body having authority to remove him, when such person is at the time a corporation sole, his successor in office, as such corporation sole, shall be vested with the title to any and all property held by his predecessor, as such corporation sole, with like power and authority over the same, and subject to all the legal liabilities and obligations with reference thereto. Such successor shall file in the office of the county clerk of each county wherein any of said real property is situated, a certified copy of his commission, certificate or letter of election or appointment.
WY Stat § 17-8-117 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 8 - Churches and Religious Societies Generally|Section 17-8-117 - Vesting of Title to Property in Successor When Held Beneficially by Church Official and Not by Corporation.

17-8-117. Vesting of title to property in successor when held beneficially by church official and not by corporation.| In case of the death, resignation or removal of any such archbishop, bishop, president, trustee in trust, president of stake, president of congregation, overseer, presiding elder, or clergyman, who at the time of his death, resignation, or removal, was holding the title to trust property for the use or benefit of any church or religious society, and not incorporated as a corporation sole, the title to any and all such property held by him, of every nature and kind, shall not revert to the donor, nor vest in the heirs of such deceased person, but shall be deemed to be in abeyance, after such death, resignation, or removal, until his successor is duly appointed to fill such vacancy, and upon the appointment of such successor, the title to all the property held by his predecessor shall at once, without any other act or deed, vest in the person appointed to fill such vacancy.
WY Stat § 17-11-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 11 - Industrial Corporations|Section 17-11-101 - Short Title.

17-11-101. Short title.| This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Wyoming Industrial Corporation Act".
WY Stat § 17-11-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 11 - Industrial Corporations|Section 17-11-102 - Definitions.

17-11-102. Definitions.| (a) As used in this act, unless a different meaning is required by the context, the following words and phrases have the following meanings:  (i) "Corporation" means a Wyoming industrial development corporation created under this act;  (ii) "Financial institution" means any bank, trust company, savings and loan association, industrial bank, public or private pension or retirement fund, insurance company or related corporation, partnership, foundation, or other institution engaged in lending or investing funds;  (iii) "Member" means any financial institution which undertakes to lend money to or to buy stock in the corporation created under this act;  (iv) "Board of directors" means the board of directors of the corporation created under this act;  (v) "Loan limit" means for any member, the maximum amount permitted to be outstanding at one (1) time on loans made by such member to the corporation, as determined under the provisions of this act;  (vi) "Shareholder" means:  (A) If the corporation is formed for profit, the holder of record of shares in the corporation; or  (B) If the corporation is a nonprofit corporation, a member who has contributed money, property, services or other item of value and whose contribution is recorded on the books of the corporation.
WY Stat § 17-11-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 11 - Industrial Corporations|Section 17-11-104 - Powers of Corporation Generally.

17-11-104. Powers of corporation generally.| (a) In furtherance of its purposes the corporation shall, subject to the restrictions and limitations herein contained, have the following powers:  (i) To elect, appoint, and employ officers, agents and employees; to make contracts and incur liabilities for any of the purposes of the corporation;  (ii) To borrow money from its members, the small business administration or any other similar federal agency, or the state of Wyoming or any agency or department thereof or any other corporation or person, for any of the purposes of the corporation; to issue therefor its bonds, debentures, notes or other evidence of indebtedness, whether secured or unsecured, and to secure the same by mortgage, pledge, deed of trust or other lien on its property, franchises, rights, and privileges of every kind and nature, or any part thereof or interest therein, without securing stockholder or member approval;  (iii) To make loans to any project, person, firm, corporation, association or trust, to invest in a small business investment company as regulated by the small business administration, and to establish and regulate the terms and conditions with respect to those loans or investments;  (iv) To cooperate with and avail itself of the facilities of the United States department of commerce, the Wyoming business council created by W.S. 9-12-103 and any other similar state or federal governmental agencies; and to cooperate with and assist, and otherwise encourage organizations in the various communities of the state in the promotion, assistance, and development of the business prosperity and economic welfare of such communities or of this state or of any part thereof;  (v) To do all acts and things necessary or convenient to carry out the powers expressly granted in this act.  (b) In addition to the powers herein enumerated, the corporation if organized as a nonprofit corporation shall have all of the powers conferred on such corporations by W.S. 17-19-101 through 17-19-1807, and if organized as a profit corporation shall have all of the powers conferred on corporations under the Wyoming Business Corporation Act.
WY Stat § 17-11-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 17 - Corporations, Partnerships and Associations|Chapter 11 - Industrial Corporations|Section 17-11-105 - Authority to Acquire and Dispose of Bonds, Securities and Capital Stock of Corporation.

17-11-105. Authority to acquire and dispose of bonds, securities and capital stock of corporation.| (a) Notwithstanding any rule at common law or any provision of any general or special law or any provision in their respective charters, agreements of association, articles of organization or trust indentures:  (i) Any person, domestic or foreign corporation, public utility company, insurance company, financial institution as defined herein, or trust, is hereby authorized to acquire, purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of any bonds, securities, or other evidence of indebtedness, or the shares of the capital stock of the corporation, or to make contributions to any corporation organized hereunder, and while a shareholder to exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges granted shareholders, including the right to vote, all without the approval of any regulatory authority of the state except as otherwise provided in this act;  (ii) All financial institutions as defined herein are hereby authorized to become members of the corporation and to make loans to the corporation as provided herein; and  (iii) Each financial institution which becomes a member of the corporation may acquire, purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of any bonds, securities, or other evidence of indebtedness, or the shares of the capital stock of the corporation, and make contributions to the corporation, and as a shareholder exercise all the rights, powers, and privileges granted stockholders, including the right to vote, all without the approval of any regulatory authority of the state.  (b) The amount of capital stock of the corporation which any member is authorized to acquire pursuant to the authority granted herein is in addition to the amount of capital stock in corporations which such member may otherwise be authorized to acquire.