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IN Code § 23-10-2-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-3. Election of Trustees; Notice

Sec. 3. Notice of the first election of trustees shall be given at least ten (10) days before the election by publication in a newspaper of the county, if any be published in the county, otherwise by posting such notices in three (3) public places in the township where such election is to take place, one (1) of which notices shall be posted at the place where the proposed election is to be held. Such notice shall state the time, place and object of such election; and the same shall be held at the usual place of worship or meeting of such society, if any there be. However, at any subsequent election of such trustees, no such notice shall be necessary where such lodge or society shall, in its rules, by-laws or constitution, provide and fix the time and place for the election of its trustees.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.3; Acts 1895, c.10, s.3. As amended by P.L.136-2018, SEC.134.
IN Code § 23-10-2-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-4. Election Certificate; Recording; Duties of Clerk

Sec. 4. Such society, at the first and every subsequent election, shall appoint a clerk thereof, who shall take, count and make a poll-list of the votes given for trustees; and, within ten (10) days thereafter, shall deposit in the recorder's office of the county where the real estate granted is situate, a certificate setting forth the notice of such election, the time and place where the same was held, the name of the society and persons elected as trustees thereof; and the recorder of such county shall record the same among the records of deeds in his office.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.4.
IN Code § 23-10-2-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-5. Certificate; Conclusive and Presumptive Evidence

Sec. 5. As between such society, the trustees thereof, and all other persons claiming under them, and any person granting real estate thereto, and all persons claiming under him, such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the matters and things therein recited; and as between such society, the trustees thereof, and all persons claiming under them, and all other persons, it shall be presumptive evidence of such matters.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.5.
IN Code § 23-10-2-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-6. Succession of Trustees

Sec. 6. Such trustees shall severally hold their offices until their successors are duly chosen according to the rules of such society; and any society, by a majority vote, at a meeting of one-third (1/3) of the resident members thereof notice being given as aforesaid, may remove such trustees, and elect others in their stead.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.6.
IN Code § 23-10-2-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-7. By-Laws

Sec. 7. Such society, or the trustees thereof, when organized for that purpose, may establish all necessary by-laws to carry out the objects of its organization.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.7.
IN Code § 23-10-2-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-8. Selection of Appointment of Trustees According to Custom

Sec. 8. Any society may select or appoint trustees according to its common usage or custom, if they desire it; but a certificate of such selection or appointment, and the record of the same, as in case of their election, shall not be dispensed with.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.8.
IN Code § 23-10-2-9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-9. Powers of Trustees

Sec. 9. Such trustees shall be deemed a body politic and corporate, under such name and style as the society may elect; and, by that name, shall have power to contract, sue, be contracted with and sued with like effect as other persons or corporations.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.9.
IN Code § 23-10-2-10 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-10. Change of Corporate Name

Sec. 10. Such society may, at any meeting, by giving ten (10) days' notice of the time and purpose thereof, change their corporate name; but the name chosen by such society shall not be assumed until a record has first been made of the fact in the recorder's office of the proper county. Such change shall not affect the rights or liabilities of the society or of other persons or parties.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.10.
IN Code § 23-10-2-11 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-11. Receiving and Holding Conveyances of Land

Sec. 11. The trustees chosen as provided in this chapter, after record of their election or appointment is made in the recorder's office of the proper county, shall have power and authority, as such trustees, to receive conveyances of lands, whether the same be by purchase, gift or otherwise, and to hold the same to their successors, as such trustees, in perpetuity, for the sole and exclusive benefit of such society and for the uses declared in such conveyance or grant.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.11. As amended by P.L.136-2018, SEC.135.
IN Code § 23-10-2-12 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-12. Acquiring and Possessing of Personal Property

Sec. 12. Such trustees and their successors in office may also acquire and possess personal property for the use of any such society, and may appropriate the same, and the income or interest thereof, and all other funds and incomes in their hands as such trustees, for the purposes designated by such society, not inconsistent with the trust.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.12; Acts 1925, c.68, s.1.
IN Code § 23-10-2-13 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-13. Sale or Other Disposition of Corporate Property

Sec. 13. Such trustees, to more effectually carry out the objects of their trust, may sell, loan or otherwise dispose of their corporate property; and any conveyance thereof by such trustees, or a majority of them, in behalf of such society, shall vest in the purchaser of the same, all the right, title and interest thereto; but the provisions of this section shall not be construed to affect any gift, bequest or devise to such society, or to trustees for its use, nor to defeat the intentions of the grantor, donor or testator.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.13.
IN Code § 23-10-2-14 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-14. Revival of Dissolved Corporation

Sec. 14. When any society within the meaning of this chapter shall have been dissolved from any cause, a majority of the persons interested in the society may revive the same, within five (5) years after such dissolution, by electing a new board of trustees, and making record of such election in the recorder's office of the proper county, as provided in this chapter. And whenever, from any cause, any church or religious society holding and possessing property within the meaning of this chapter shall have been dissolved, the annual or quarterly conference, or other ecclesiastical body to which such church or religious society is directly subordinate, shall have power to appoint trustees, in accordance with the customs and usages of said church, to take charge and control of the property of said church or society until it shall be revived as contemplated by this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.14; Acts 1855, c.107, s.1. As amended by P.L.34-1987, SEC.338; P.L.136-2018, SEC.136.
IN Code § 23-10-2-15 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-15. Applicability of Chapter to Prior Acquisitions

Sec. 15. The provisions of this chapter shall extend to every society, educational or religious, which, previous to May 6, 1853, had acquired land for the purpose of erecting a house of worship, or other appropriate building, not exceeding five (5) acres, upon condition that the consent of two-thirds (2/3) of the persons interested in the land is first obtained, the trustees are elected and certified, and other proceedings had as directed in this chapter for the election of trustees.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.15. As amended by P.L.34-1987, SEC.339; P.L.1-1991, SEC.161.
IN Code § 23-10-2-16 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-16. Performance of Trustees' Duties by Officers

Sec. 16. The officers of any society, by whatever name such officers may be designated, elected in the manner prescribed by this chapter, or according to the rules of any such church, society, or order, may, whenever the laws or usages of the same require it, perform the duties of trustees, and, in their proper name and title, shall possess all the powers and be subject to the same liabilities as trustees; and the certificate of the election of such officers shall be recorded in the recorder's office of the proper county as in the case of trustees.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.16. As amended by P.L.34-1987, SEC.340.
IN Code § 23-10-2-17 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-17. Applicability of Chapter to Cemetery Associations

Sec. 17. All the provisions of this chapter are hereby extended, so far as the same may be applicable, to any individuals who may unite themselves together for the purpose of receiving donations of lands or purchasing the same for cemeteries.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.17. As amended by P.L.34-1987, SEC.341.
IN Code § 23-10-2-18 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-18. Donations and Purchases; Rights and Privileges

Sec. 18. When such donations or purchases shall be made to or by any such individuals, and a certificate thereof or conveyance therefor, together with the articles of association by which such individuals have become united for such purpose, shall be filed in the office of the recorder of the proper county, and by him recorded, such individuals shall enjoy all the privileges necessary for the preservation and protection of such cemetery, in the same manner as if such individuals were regularly incorporated by law, and such cemetery shall forever remain a burial place for the dead.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.18.
IN Code § 23-10-2-19 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-19. Conveyance for Cemetery Purposes; Holding in Trust

Sec. 19. Lands conveyed to the board of county commissioners, by deed duly recorded, for the purpose of a public or private cemetery, shall be held by such board forever in trust for such purpose.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.19.
IN Code § 23-10-2-20 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-20. Designated Burial Lots

Sec. 20. In all cases where the donors or donees of any public burying ground shall lay the same off into lots, plainly designated by corner stones or posts, and record a plat thereof in the recorder's office, then persons interring in said burying place shall bury within the lots so designated, and not out of them.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.20.
IN Code § 23-10-2-21 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-21. Donor of Private Burying Ground; Exclusive Right of Admitting

Sec. 21. The donor of a private burying ground, his heirs and assigns forever, shall have the exclusive right of admitting corpses for interment, and shall direct where the same shall be buried; and may grant any right of burial in such ground as shall not interfere with the graves already there or the rights of persons who have buried their dead in such ground.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.21.
IN Code § 23-10-2-22 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 10. Fraternal and Other Similar Associations|Chapter 2. Land Acquisition and Construction of Buildings for Benevolent Purposes|23-10-2-22. Subsequent Disposition by Donor; Applicability of Chapter

Sec. 22. No burying ground specified in this chapter shall pass or be held contrary to the intent or meaning of this chapter by virtue of any subsequent devise, purchase, descent, or conveyance of the donor.Formerly: Acts 1852, 1RS, c.101, s.22. As amended by P.L.34-1987, SEC.342.
IN Code § 23-13-5-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 13. Educational Institutions|Chapter 5. Management of Educational Institutions Established Under General Laws and Special Enactments|23-13-5-1. Election of Governing or Administrative Body by Board of Directors

Sec. 1. Any university, college or other institution of learning heretofore organized and now existing under special enactments of the general assembly of the state of Indiana, constituting the charter of the institution, or which now is or hereafter may be organized under the general laws of the state of Indiana, may provide that the board of directors, trustees or other governing or administrative body thereof may from time to time be elected by such board of directors instead of by stockholders or otherwise.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.52, s.1.
IN Code § 23-13-5-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 13. Educational Institutions|Chapter 5. Management of Educational Institutions Established Under General Laws and Special Enactments|23-13-5-2. Articles of Association; Contents

Sec. 2. In all cases of corporations organized after March 3, 1909, desiring to accept the provisions of this chapter, the corporation shall in its articles of association specifically set forth the number of trustees, directors, or other members of its governing or administrative board, the manner of election, their powers, and the system adopted for administering their respective funds.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.52, s.2. As amended by P.L.34-1987, SEC.343.
IN Code § 23-13-5-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 13. Educational Institutions|Chapter 5. Management of Educational Institutions Established Under General Laws and Special Enactments|23-13-5-4. Perpetual Existence; Merger

Sec. 4. Any postsecondary educational institution which may be organized before, on, or after March 3, 1909, under or which may otherwise become subject to the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed to have a perpetual existence by operation of law. Any two (2) or more postsecondary educational institutions incorporated under the provisions of this chapter may be merged into one (1) corporation by the action of the boards of trustees of the respective corporations.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.52, s.3a; Acts 1953, c.17, s.1. As amended by P.L.34-1987, SEC.345; P.L.2-2007, SEC.315.
IN Code § 23-13-5-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 13. Educational Institutions|Chapter 5. Management of Educational Institutions Established Under General Laws and Special Enactments|23-13-5-5. Assignment of Capital Stock of Institution to Board of Directors or Trustees

Sec. 5. And at the same meeting of stockholders mentioned in section 3 of this chapter, or at any meeting of stockholders called for the purpose by the board of directors or trustees of such institution, upon not less than four (4) advertisements therefor, once a week for four (4) successive weeks preceding such meeting, printed in two (2) newspapers of general circulation published in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, giving the date and place of such meeting, and the matters to be considered and acted upon thereat, the stockholders of said corporation created before March 3, 1909, and existing on March 3, 1909, may, by the vote of two-thirds (2/3) in value of all the stock of such corporation, vote that all the capital stock of the corporation shall be assigned and turned over to the directors or trustees of the corporation to be held by said directors for the benefit of the corporation. Upon such vote, the directors or trustees and their successors are and shall be authorized to hold for the benefit of said corporation exclusively and to vote any stock that may be so assigned and turned over to them. And when all the stock of said corporation shall, by virtue of the provisions of this chapter or otherwise, have come under the control or ownership of said directors or trustees, then they shall cancel the entire capital stock of such corporation, and such corporation shall cease to be represented in any sense by capital stock.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.52, s.4. As amended by P.L.34-1987, SEC.346.
IN Code § 23-13-5-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 13. Educational Institutions|Chapter 5. Management of Educational Institutions Established Under General Laws and Special Enactments|23-13-5-6. Purchasing Shares of Dissatisfied Stockholders; Determination of Value

Sec. 6. The board of directors of any such corporation is hereby authorized to buy in for the corporation the share or shares of stock of any person or persons dissatisfied with the action of the majority of stockholders provided for in section 3 or 4 of this chapter, provided such dissatisfied stockholders did not vote with the majority at such meeting or meetings. If any such dissatisfied stockholder shall not be satisfied with the price offered for his stock by said directors or trustees, then he may apply by petition to one (1) of the judges of the circuit or superior courts, if any, of the county where such institution is located, making the corporation defendant therein, praying said court to appoint three (3) disinterested persons to estimate and appraise the fair cash value of the shares of such stock owned by the petitioner, and shall at the same time file with the clerk his certificate of stock in said corporation. And the value of such shares having been so appraised by said commissioners, by a vote of a majority thereof, shall be reported to said court, and when confirmed by the court, shall be final and conclusive on all parties, and thereupon said corporation shall be decreed to be the owner of such shares, and the petitioner shall assign his said stock to said corporation and deliver to said board of directors or trustees the certificate therefor and shall be paid the appraised value thereof out of the endowment or other funds of said corporation. Should any such petitioner fail after such appraisement to so assign and deliver said stock and the certificate therefor within sixty (60) days after the confirmation of such appraisal therefor, the said directors or trustees may make payment of the amount of such award to the clerk of the court for the party entitled thereto and, upon such payment, the clerk shall assign and deliver to said directors or trustees the said stock and certificate. The costs of such proceeding and appraisement shall be paid by the corporation in case the appraised value of such stock exceeds the sum offered therefor by such directors or trustees; otherwise such costs shall be paid by the petitioner.Formerly: Acts 1909, c.52, s.5. As amended by P.L.34-1987, SEC.347.