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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.09 | Transfer of Property of Consolidating Organizations.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When two or more religious societies, denominations, or ecclesiastical corporations in this state unanimously form a union in this state, the trustees, deacons, directors, or other proper officers of the new society, denomination, or corporation, at the request of a majority of the members of any of the component societies, denominations, or corporations, may petition the court of common pleas, setting forth the fact of such union. Thereupon such court may order that such officers, at the time of the union, shall convey to the new organization the real estate owned by the parties to the union, as the court directs, and may order that, if any of such officers neglect to obey such order, the order itself shall serve as such conveyance. In no case shall such order be inconsistent with the original terms upon which real estate became vested in or entrusted to the parties to the union; and in all cases the grantors of the real estate to such parties, or the heirs of such grantors, shall be made parties to the petition. Such of said grantors or heirs as make no defense are not subject to costs.
Notice of the pendency of such petition shall be given by publication, in a newspaper published in the county where the petition is filed, for four consecutive weeks, setting forth the object and prayer of the petition.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.10 | Consolidation of Self-Governing Churches in Same Locality.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any two or more churches, congregations, or religious societies, whether incorporated or unincorporated, which are self-governing organizations and situated in the same township or municipal corporation, may unite their memberships and properties and continue their identity and common usages or polity in a consolidated corporation formed by an agreement in writing made, acknowledged, and signed by their respective trustees and filed in the office of the secretary of state. Such agreement shall set forth the name of the consolidated corporation and the proceedings by which the constituent organizations authorized their trustees so to act, shall designate the time and place at which the united membership shall first meet, and shall provide for the adoption of regulations consistent with such common usages or polity and for the appointment of officers pursuant to such regulations. Upon the filing of such agreement the existence of each constituent organization is merged into that of the consolidated corporation, which shall thereafter be a single religious corporation not for profit, the members, officers, and conduct of which shall be as provided in such regulations. Such consolidated corporation shall from its inception be vested with all the rights and properties, and charged with all the obligations and duties, of such constituent organizations; and any right or interest in respect to any past or future devise, bequest, conditional gift, trust, or property or fund restricted to particular uses, when vested in or claimed by such consolidated corporation as a result of such merger, shall belong to it as a continuation without interruption of the existence and identity of the constituent organization originally named as taker or beneficiary.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.11 | Association for Holding Donations and Bequests.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
An association incorporated for the purpose of receiving and holding donations, bequests, and funds derived from other sources, and disbursing the interest and income arising therefrom as provided in this section, shall hold all such principal sums as a permanent fund. The interest arising from such fund, and the annual income arising from all property held by such association, shall be applied and distributed annually as follows:
(A) To the payment of the necessary expenses of the association;
(B) The balance to the board of stewards of the association, or to any officer designated by the conference, synod, assembly, or association within the territorial bounds of which the principal office of such association is located at the time of its organization, to be distributed by the board of stewards or such officer annually, to such persons as are designated by such conference, synod, presbytery, assembly, or association.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.13 | Real Estate of Church Liable for Certain Judgments.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Real estate held by or in trust for a religious society or congregation, as a place of worship or otherwise, is liable for and by civil action may be subjected to the payment of a judgment recovered against the trustees or a committee of such society or congregation, in their individual capacity or otherwise, for labor performed, materials furnished, or damages sustained, under any contract with them for the erection of a church edifice or other building or improvement made on such real estate.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.14 | Sale of Real Property of Extinct Corporation.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a parish, congregation, or society becomes extinct by reason of the death or dispersion of its members, the court of common pleas of the county in which any real property of such extinct parish, congregation, or society is situated may, upon the petition of the board of trustees of the denomination to which the extinct parish, congregation, or society belonged, make an order for the sale of such real property, whether built upon or otherwise improved or not. The proceeds of the sale shall go to, and be for the benefit of, the denomination represented by such board, within the territorial limits represented by the body by which its members were appointed. The purchaser shall be vested with as complete a title to the property as the character of the original grant to such parish, congregation, or society will allow. This section does not limit or restrict the powers conferred upon such board by section 1715.12 of the Revised Code.
When the petition is filed all persons who have a vested, contingent, or reversionary interest in such real estate shall be made parties thereto, and shall be notified of the filing and pendency thereof, in the manner provided by law in cases of the partition of real estate. The court may make such order as to costs as it deems just.
All money derived from such sale shall be placed in the custody of the board of trustees of the presbytery, synod, conference, diocese, or other ecclesiastical body having jurisdiction in the territorial limits in which the property was located, and such board shall hold such money in trust for ten years, or for such period as is prescribed by the law of the denomination. If within that time another parish, congregation, or society of the same denomination is organized in the same locality, then the court which authorized the sale of the property, upon proper application and evidence, may authorize the turning over of the money to the board of trustees of the new organization. Otherwise it shall become a part of the funds of the presbytery, synod, conference, diocese, or other ecclesiastical body having such territorial jurisdiction.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.15 | Incorporation of Religious Printing and Publishing Houses.

Effective:
October 4, 1996
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 495 - 121st General Assembly
When a conference, presbytery, assembly, association, or other general ecclesiastical body held in the United States, in conformity with the regulations prescribed by it, elects any number of persons, not fewer than three, as trustees or directors of a printing and publishing house, to hold such office until their successors are elected by that ecclesiastical body, and a certificate of the election of those persons, setting forth the name by which the printing and publishing corporation is to be known and signed by any authorized officer of that ecclesiastical body, together with the written acceptance of the office by the persons elected thereto, is filed in the office of the secretary of state, those trustees are a corporation under the name set forth in the certificate.
A corporation established by special act of the legislature for printing and publishing under the ownership or direction of a religious sect, association, or denomination, and whose charter has expired, may be renewed by compliance on the part of that sect, association, or denomination with this section; and the title to all property belonging to the former corporation at the expiration of its charter becomes vested in the corporation so established.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.16 | Lands to Descend in Trust.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Lands and tenements, not exceeding twenty acres, that are conveyed by devise, purchase, or otherwise to trustees in trust for the use of a religious society for a meetinghouse, for a burying ground, or for a residence for their preacher, shall descend, with the improvements and appurtenances thereon, in perpetual succession, in trust to such trustees as are elected or appointed by such religious society, according to its customs and regulations.
The trustees of any such religious society may defend and prosecute suits, and do all other acts for the protection, improvement, and preservation of the society's property, that individuals can do in relation to their individual property.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.17 | Legal Title to Lands.

Effective:
February 21, 1967
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 107th General Assembly
Property conveyed in trust for the use of a religious society, church, or association, whether incorporated or not, shall be held by the trustees and their successors, appointed as provided in the instrument creating the trust, or in case no provision for successor trustees is made in such instrument, then by such successor trustees as are appointed by a competent court. No person shall be elected or appointed by such society, church, or association to act as trustee to the exclusion of any trustee appointed as provided in this section.
Title to property conveyed after October 30, 1965 to and in the name of a religious society, church, or association; charitable or other eleemosynary organization; labor union, national, state, district, regional, or other unit; whether incorporated or not, may be held in the name of such group or organization. Any right, title, or interest in property in the name of any such group or organization on October 30, 1965 is hereby confirmed in that name as if the conveyance or grant thereof had been made after such date.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.18 | Incorporation of Cathedrals or Other Religious Societies.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a diocesan convention or other representative body of any religious denomination in this state desires the incorporation of a cathedral or other central or general religious society or church of its denomination, having, in addition to local religious, educational, or charitable functions, a general charge of such functions and of missionary function in the diocese or other ecclesiastical territory in this state represented by said body, and when at any regular meeting of such representative body it elects not less than five members of such denomination, at least one of whom is a resident freeholder in this state, to serve as members of the chapter or trustees of the society being incorporated until the election of their successors, and makes a statement giving the names of such members or trustees, the character of the endowment fund or other property, donations, or appropriations to be entrusted to their care and the uses to which such fund, property, donations, and appropriations are to be applied, the general rights, powers, and duties of such members or trustees, and the corporate name by which they are to be known, which statement is signed, certified, attested, acknowledged, filed, and recorded in the office of the secretary of state in the manner prescribed by section 1715.12 of the Revised Code for statements filed under such section, then the members or trustees so named thereupon, with their successors in office, under such corporate name, become a body corporate and politic for the purposes specified in such statement. A copy of such record, certified by the secretary of state, shall be evidence of the existence of such corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.19 | Constitution.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any representative body creating a corporation under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code may provide a constitution, not inconsistent with the statement provided for in such section, or with the law of this state, for the government of such corporation, and may amend such constitution; may determine the number and limit the terms of the members of the chapter or trustees; may provide for and designate a certain number or proportion of ex officio members of the chapter or trustees; may provide for a certain number or proportion of members or trustees to be elected or designated ex officio by other congregations, or bodies, of the same religious denomination in the same diocese or ecclesiastical territory, in addition to the members or trustees to be elected by said representative body itself, said additional classes of members or trustees not constituting a majority of the whole chapter or board, and having otherwise the same qualifications as those elected by said representative body itself; and may determine the ratio of clerical to lay membership upon such chapter or board. Any of such designations and provisions may be included either in the original statement provided for in section 1715.18 of the Revised Code or in such constitution.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.20 | Power of Trustees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Members of the chapter or trustees of corporations organized under sections 1715.18 and 1715.19 of the Revised Code, if chosen to take charge of any endowment fund, may invest, manage, and dispose of such fund in accordance with the purpose for which it was created, subject to such constitutional regulations as the representative body organizing the corporation prescribes.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.21 | Consolidation With Corporation Created by Representative Body.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When one or more parishes or other religious societies, represented by the same diocesan convention or other representative body of any religious denomination in this state, and incorporated in this state, desire at the same or different times to surrender their corporate existence and franchises, and that representatives and their successors to be elected by their respective congregations be consolidated with any corporation created by the same representative body under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code, under the name, and with the rights, powers, and duties of such last-mentioned corporation created by the same representative body, then the rector, wardens, and vestry, or other known legal trustees, of such parishes or other religious societies, and the members of the chapter or trustees of such corporation created under such section, may enter into an agreement for such consolidation. In such agreement they may prescribe the terms of the consolidation; the time and place for the first meeting of the members of the chapter or the trustees constituting the consolidated corporation; the number or proportion, and time and manner of election, of the members of each of said congregations who are first chosen as members of the chapter or trustees of the consolidated corporation in addition to those provided, designated, or elected by such representative body itself, and as their successors, to succeed to the rights, trusts, duties, and obligations of those members, officers, or trustees who in the separate original organizations held in trust, or in corporate capacity, the estate of such separate original corporations, and to succeed to such other estates as they deem necessary to complete the consolidated corporation. An agreement so made is not valid until it has been submitted to and ratified by separate meetings of the members of each of said parishes or societies in accordance with section 1715.08 of the Revised Code, and has also been submitted to and ratified by such representative body at one of its regular meetings.
When a corporation is being or has been merged with or into another or a new corporation as provided in this section, said merger and the consolidated or new corporation resulting therefrom shall be, in substance, governed by section 1715.08 of the Revised Code, so far as such section is applicable, in its nature or by analogy, to said merger and said new corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.22 | Consolidation in Anticipation of Incorporation.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
If, before the creation of a corporation under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code for the purposes provided in such section, any parish or religious society described in section 1715.21 of the Revised Code has been acting, by authority of its diocesan convention or other representative body, as a part of or in connection with any unincorporated subordinate agency or body chosen, designated, or provided, in whole or in part, by such representative body, for any of the same or similar purposes, then an agreement for consolidation, such as is provided in section 1715.21 of the Revised Code, may be made, in anticipation of the creation of such corporation under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code, between the parties who have been so acting together; but an agreement so made is not valid until submitted and ratified, on both sides, as provided in section 1715.21 of the Revised Code. The statement pursuant to the creation of a corporation under section 1715.18 of the Revised Code, and provided for in such section, shall include the terms of said agreement, and on being signed, certified, attested, acknowledged, filed, and recorded as provided in section 1715.18 of the Revised Code, shall have all the effect of sections 1715.08, 1715.18, and 1715.21 of the Revised Code. A copy of such record, certified by the secretary of state, shall be evidence of such consolidation and of the existence of the new corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.23 | Incorporation of Young Men's Christian Association.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
A society of men conducting religious services, performing Christian work, and co-operating for the mutual benefit of the membership shall be known as a young men's Christian association not for profit. When such a society has received the approval of the state young men's Christian association and has filed its application and certificate of approval with the secretary of state and paid a fee of ten dollars, the secretary of state shall issue to it articles of incorporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.24 | Management and Control.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
An incorporated young men's Christian association may adopt a code of regulations for its government.
The management and control of the association shall be vested in a board of five or more trustees. They may be elected for a term of not less than one nor more than five years, but the term of office of an equal number must expire each year.
The board may provide rules for the business of the association and for the conduct of the association's members, departments, branches, committees, officers, employees, and guests.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.25 | Powers of Young Men's Christian Association.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
An incorporated young men's Christian association may conduct such work and organize such department as its board of trustees deems necessary to attain the purposes of the association, and may organize through such board under such rules as such board adopts, branches which may become co-ordinate parts of the association.
The association may receive dues, fees, fines, assessments, and contributions from the members and apply them to their designated use, and may accept legacies, devises, bequests, savings, donations, and other grants and administer them.
The association may acquire, hold, convey, lease, encumber by mortgage, improve, and otherwise handle any real or personal property necessary or convenient to carry out its objects, but its property shall not be liable for any obligation contracted without the approval of such board. In all respects it may deal with minors the same as it deals with adults.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.26 | Dissolution of Association.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Subject to the contract rights of its members, an incorporated young men's Christian association may dissolve by a majority vote of the membership and by filing with the secretary of state a copy of the certificate of its action.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.27 | State Organization.

Effective:
July 1, 1985
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 201 - 116th General Assembly
The young men's Christian association in this state may unite and constitute the state young men's Christian association for the supervision and conduct of its work in the state. The associations affiliated with the state association, through their representatives, may make such rules as they consider necessary, choose such officers as they determine, and delegate such duties as they desire to delegate, for the conduct of the work in the state, to a state committee to be chosen as the state association decides.
The state association may incorporate under, and exercise the privileges granted by, sections 1715.23 to 1715.27 of the Revised Code. When so incorporated it may receive young men's Christian associations into affiliation and may pass upon all applications for the incorporation of such associations, causing to be affixed to each such application a certificate of its approval.
Every such affiliated association shall file with the state association a copy of its constitution and rules and annually thereafter shall file a copy of any changes therein, together with a schedule of its property, a financial statement, and such report of its activity as the state association determines.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.29 | Fiscal Trustees of Benevolent Associations.

Effective:
October 25, 1978
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 349 - 112th General Assembly
A benevolent or charitable association incorporated in this state, may vest the custody, control, and management of all its endowment, capital, funds, and property in three trustees, to be styled fiscal trustees. One of such fiscal trustees shall be appointed by the court of common pleas of the county where such association is located, one by the probate court of such county, and one by the vote of a majority of the members of such association present at a regular meeting duly convoked. Such fiscal trustees shall hold their offices for three years, except the first ones appointed, who shall hold office respectively for one, two, and three years. They must meet in the presence of the probate judge, and, by agreement, or by lot if they cannot agree, allot themselves accordingly, whereupon such judge shall give to each a certificate of his term. Upon the death, resignation, incapacity, or removal from the county of any of such trustees, the vacancy must be filled for the unexpired term by the same appointing power.
Such fiscal trustees shall not be appointed except upon the written request of the association, filed in such probate court, in accordance with a resolution adopted by it at a regular meeting duly convoked. Until such appointment the association at a regular meeting may elect any number of fiscal trustees, not less than three, with such power, subject to such duties, and for such time not more than three years, as the association determines by its bylaws.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.30 | Fiscal Trustees - Powers.

Effective:
October 25, 1978
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 349 - 112th General Assembly
Fiscal trustees appointed for a benevolent association under section 1715.29 of the Revised Code shall have the exclusive authority, in the name and behalf of such association, to demand, take, and possess all the endowment, capital, funds, or property which the association has or may be entitled to, and securely to manage, invest, change, and dispose of these at their will, for the benefit of the association, so as to yield a regular income. Every three months, or oftener if necessary and convenient, they must give account of all such funds, property, and income to the proper board of trustees, managers, or directors of the association, and collect and pay over to them or their order all the net income of such investments, after deducting the necessary expenses of the trust. No charge or allowance for the services of such fiscal trustees shall be made.
For such purposes, such fiscal trustees may, in the name of the association, contract and be contracted with, prosecute and defend suits, and receive, hold, and dispose of all money and property which the association may have, acquire, or be entitled to, by gift, purchase, or otherwise, for its endowment, and may, when necessary for such purposes, use the common seal of the corporation.
Such fiscal trustees shall not have any power, or control over the institution or affairs of the corporation, other than its fiscal affairs, nor shall they be liable for its debts or for anything else but their own acts or negligence.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.31 | Provisions in Articles for Fiscal Trustees.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
A benevolent or charitable association incorporated under general or special law and coming within the purview of section 1715.29 of the Revised Code, may accept the provisions of sections 1715.29 and 1715.30 of the Revised Code by a vote of the majority of the members present at a regular meeting. When a certified copy of such acceptance is filed in the office of the secretary of state, such sections shall be a part of its charter. If such association is being newly formed, it may make such sections part of its articles of incorporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.32 | Consolidation of Charitable or Benevolent Institutions.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When two or more charitable, benevolent, or educational organizations formed or incorporated in this state desire to be consolidated as a single corporation, or when two or more charitable, benevolent, or educational organizations one or more of which is or may be incorporated in this state desire to be consolidated as a single corporation, the trustees, directors, or other known legal representatives or governing body of such organizations may enter into an agreement for such consolidation and prescribe its terms, a corporate name for such united corporation which may be either the name of one of the component organizations or a new name, the time and place for the first meeting of the new corporation, and the number of members of each component organization to be chosen as directors, trustees, or other officers of the new corporation. Such directors, trustees, or other officers of the new corporation shall succeed to the rights and obligations of those officers who in the component organizations held in trust the real and personal estate thereof, and may hold such other estates as they deem necessary to complete the new corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.33 | Ratification of Consolidation Agreement.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No agreement for the consolidation of charitable, benevolent, or educational organizations under section 1715.32 of the Revised Code shall be valid until it has been submitted to a separate meeting of the members of each of the component organizations, of which meeting notice has been given according to the form and usage for calling meetings of the component organizations concerned, and ratified by a two-thirds vote of the members present at said meeting, in person or by proxy, entitled to vote according to the regulations or usages of such organizations. In case any of such organizations does not have members, then said agreement shall not be valid until it has been submitted to a meeting of such persons as are authorized to elect the governing body of such organization, of which meeting notice has been given as provided in the preceding sentence, and ratified by two thirds of such persons present at said meeting.
When such agreement has been ratified by each organization which is a party to the proposed united corporation, the clerk or secretary of the ratifying meeting shall certify the record of the proceedings of such meeting and deliver it to the clerk or secretary of the first meeting of the united corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.34 | Approval of Agreement by First Meeting of United Corporation.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
At the first meeting of a united corporation formed under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, each member of each of the component organizations is entitled to vote. If at such meeting the proceedings and acts of the several component organizations are submitted to and approved by it, and a board of trustees, directors, or other officers are chosen in accordance with the consolidation agreement, the clerk or secretary of the meeting shall certify the approved consolidation agreement and file it in the office of the secretary of state. Thereupon the several organizations parties thereto shall be one corporation under the name adopted.
Any of the acts provided for by this section which are not done or perfected at such first meeting may be done and perfected at a subsequent or adjourned meeting of the united corporation.
The certificate to the secretary of state provided for in this section shall be recorded by him, and a copy thereof, certified by him, shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county where such corporation exists. It may be recorded in the office of the county recorder of any county where there is real estate belonging to any of the component organizations.
A copy of such certificate, certified by the county recorder in whose office it is recorded, or a copy certified by the secretary of state of the record in his office, shall be prima-facie evidence of the existence of such united corporation.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.35 | Constitution and Bylaws.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
A united corporation formed under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may adopt a constitution, bylaws, and rules, and may amend them under such provisions for amendment as it adopts.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.36 | Succession to Rights and Obligations of Component Organizations.

Effective:
June 13, 1974
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 383 - 110th General Assembly
The various organizations entering into a union under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38 of the Revised Code, shall be merged in the united body and the new corporation, with its officers and chosen directors, trustees, or other representatives, shall succeed to and be vested with all the interests in every species of property, including property expressly given to them in trust or otherwise either before or after the consolidation, of the organizations which are parties to the agreement, and all the rights, privileges, and franchises held by or vested in each of such component organizations, without any other act, conveyance, or transfer. Any right or interest in respect to any past or future devise, bequest, conditional gift, or trust, property, or fund restricted to particular uses, when vested in or claimed by the consolidated corporation as a result of the merger, shall belong to it as the continuation without interruption of the existence and identity of the constituent organization originally named as taker or beneficiary. The new corporation shall hold and enjoy such interests, rights, privileges, and franchises with all the rights pertaining thereto, and shall be subject to all the obligations of the component organizations in the same manner and to the same extent as were the component organizations.
Real estate or other property vested in or held by any of such component organizations, under any trusts or terms governing the grant, shall continue after the consolidation to be subject to such trusts or controlled by such terms.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.37 | Petition for Conveyance.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
A united corporation formed under sections 1715.32 to 1715.38, inclusive, of the Revised Code, at the request of a majority of its members, or by act of its board of trustees, directors or other governing body, may in its corporate name petition the court of common pleas of the proper county, setting forth the fact of the union, and such court may make an order requiring such governing body to convey to the new corporation the real estate owned and held by the parties to the union, as it directs. If any of the members of such governing body refuse or neglect to obey such order, the decree for the conveyance shall serve as such conveyance. The order shall not be inconsistent with the original terms under which the real estate became vested in, or entrusted to, the parties to the union. In all cases the grantors of the real estate to such parties, the heirs of such grantors, or such other parties as the petitioners deem advisable may be made defendants to the petition. Defendants who make no defense shall not be subject to costs.
Notice of the pendency of such petition must be given, by publication in a newspaper published in the county where the petition is filed, for four consecutive weeks, setting forth the object and prayer of the petition.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.38 | Subsequent Consolidations With United Corporation.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
After the creation of a united corporation under sections 1715.32 to 1715.37, inclusive, of the Revised Code, any one or more organizations of like character may unite with and become a part of such corporation in accordance with such sections.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.39 | Sale or Encumbrance of Real Estate by a Religious or Charitable Organization.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a charitable or religious society or association desires to sell, lease, exchange, or encumber by mortgage or otherwise any real estate owned by it, held in trust by it for a specified religious or charitable purpose, or held for its use or benefit by trustees chosen by it or otherwise constituted, for any such purpose, except grounds used as burial places for the dead, then the trustees, wardens, and vestry, or other officers entrusted with the management of the affairs of such society or association or holding the title to such property, or such society or association itself if it is incorporated in this state, may file, in the court of common pleas of the county in which the real estate is situated, a petition stating how and by whom the title to such real estate is held, the desire of such society or association to make the sale, lease, exchange, or encumbrance, and the object thereof. If upon the hearing of the case it appears that such sale, exchange, lease, or encumbrance is desired by the members of the society or association and that it is proper that authority should be given to accomplish it, the court may authorize the trustees or other officers of the society or association, or, if it is incorporated, the society or association itself, to sell, lease, exchange, or encumber such real estate in accordance with the prayer of the petition and upon such terms as the court deems reasonable.
In case the title to the property is held for the use or benefit of such society or association by trustees, all or a majority of whom are not chosen by such society or association, and who refuse upon request of such society or association, or of its trustees, wardens, and vestry or other officers, to file such petition, then, upon the petition of the society or association or of its trustees or other officers, such court may require the trustees holding the title to lease, convey, or encumber the real estate in accordance with the prayer of the petition and upon terms it deems reasonable. All trustees holding title and refusing to file or join in the petition must be made defendants therein and must be served with summons as in a civil action.
The petitioner shall cause notice of the pendency and prayer of the petition to be published, in some newspaper of general circulation in the county where the real estate proposed to be sold, leased, exchanged, or encumbered is situated, for four consecutive weeks before the application is heard.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.40 | Conveyance of Property to Allied Organizations.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The board of trustees of a church organization or of a religious or charitable society or association, or such organization or religious or charitable society or association itself if incorporated, and all persons holding title to property in trust for it, may, upon a two-thirds vote of the members of the organization present and voting at a meeting called and held for that purpose, lease, transfer, convey, or encumber such property to other boards of trustees of the same denomination, or to the board of trustees of such organization, society, or association itself if incorporated in this state; but such lease, transfer, conveyance, or encumbrance shall be made only when the property transferred, leased, or encumbered, the proceeds thereof, or the revenue arising from the use thereof is still to be used for the religious, missionary, church, or specified charitable purposes for which such property is held at the time of such lease, transfer, conveyance, or encumbrance.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.41 | Confirmation by Court.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The trustees or other officers of a charitable or religious society or association who are authorized to make a sale, lease, exchange, or encumbrance in accordance with sections 1715.39 to 1715.41, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall make return thereof to the court of common pleas ordering it, at such time as such court orders. Thereupon, if satisfied that the sale, lease, exchange, or encumbrance was made according to its order, the court shall approve it and order that the proceeds be invested in other real estate for the use of such society or association and used in payments of its debts or otherwise invested or disposed of according to the prayer of the petition.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.411 | Validity and Effect of Deeds and Mortgages.

Effective:
August 15, 1972
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 75 - 109th General Assembly
When the trustees or other officers mentioned in sections 1715.37 to 1715.41, inclusive, of the Revised Code, have sold and conveyed by deed in fee simple or mortgaged any real estate therein mentioned, without proceeding as required by those sections, and the deed of conveyance or mortgage has been of record for five years without legal action to set aside said deed or mortgage, such sale and conveyance or mortgage shall have the same validity and effect as if it had been made by proceedings as required by those sections. This section is effective as to both past and future transactions.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.42 | Secret Benevolent Societies.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
A secret benevolent association or society incorporated in this state may accept and receive any donation or voluntary contribution; collect its assessments, which shall not exceed one fifth of one per cent of the amount payable at the death of a member; and pay endowments in the mode and to the persons named and provided by its laws, but in no case shall such payments exceed, in the aggregate, five thousand dollars on the death of any one member.
Such an association or society may sue or be sued in any court in this state.
If such an association or society holds reserve or accumulated funds for the endowment of the widows, orphans, families, blood relatives, or heirs of its members, or for purely charitable purposes, it may invest such funds upon interest, but must take security for such investment, upon real or personal property or otherwise, as the society or association deems fit.
The association or society may elect a board of trustees, consisting of not less than three members, and entrust to such board the right to manage, control, invest, collect, demand, receive, and deposit all reserves or surplus or accumulated funds which the association or society holds for the purpose of making such endowments. The association or society may define in its bylaws the term of office of each of such trustees, define the duties and powers of each trustee and of the board of trustees, remove any trustee for good cause, and fill all vacancies occurring in the board. It also shall demand from each of the trustees such security for the faithful performance of his duties as it deems fit, and cause investments to be made by the board in the names of any of them, in which names suit may be brought. It may empower the board to discharge and release all claims or demands of the association or society upon payment thereof. The board may sue for a claim based upon a loan or investment made by the association or society; and upon foreclosure of a mortgage held by the association or society to secure a loan or investment made by it, may purchase and hold any land, tenement, or interest in land, in fee or otherwise, and lease, rent, sell, and convey it by deed.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships › Chapter 1715 | Religious and Benevolent Organizations › Section 1715.43 | Real Estate Held by Lodge.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any unincorporated lodge or other subordinate body of any society or order, which is chartered by its grand lodge or body, may take and hold real estate for its own use and benefit, by lease, purchase, grant, devise, gift, or otherwise; may loan its funds and secure such loans, or any unpaid purchase money, by mortgage on otherwise unencumbered real estate; and may borrow money, and execute and deliver notes or bonds, and mortgages on real property of the lodge to secure such notes or bonds, in the name and by the number of said lodge or other subordinate body according to the register of its grand lodge or body.
The presiding officer of such lodge or other such lodge or other subordinate body, together with the secretary or officer keeping its records, may make conveyances, leases, or mortgages of any real estate belonging to such lodge or other subordinate body, when authorized to do so by a vote of the members present at a regular meeting held by said lodge or other subordinate body, after at least ten days' notice has been given to all members thereof by mailing a written notice of said proposed action to the last known post-office address of each such member, under the regulations of such lodge or other subordinate body, and not in conflict with the regulations prescribed by the respective grand lodge or body.
All such conveyances, leases, or mortgages shall be in the name of the lodge, shall be attested by the presiding officer and the secretary or other officer in charge of its records, and shall have affixed the seal of such lodge or other subordinate body. Any mortgage taken by such a lodge or other subordinate body in its name and number may, when paid and satisfied, be released by the presiding officer and the secretary or officer keeping its records, and such release shall be attested by the seal of the lodge or other subordinate body.