§ 1-a. Applicability of not-for-profit corporation law to benevolent
orders. 1. The not-for-profit corporation law applies to every
corporation heretofore or hereafter formed under this chapter, or under
any other statute or special act of this state, or under laws other than
the statutes of this state, which has as its purpose or among its
purposes a purpose for which a corporation may be formed under this
chapter, provided that:

(a) If any provision of the not-for-profit corporation law conflicts
with any provision of this chapter, the provision of this chapter shall
prevail and the conflicting provision of the not-for-profit corporation
law shall not apply in such case. If any provision of this chapter
relates to a matter embraced in the not-for-profit corporation law but
is not in conflict therewith, both provisions shall apply.

(b) A corporation to which the not-for-profit corporation law is made
applicable by this section shall be treated as a "corporation",
"domestic corporation", or "foreign corporation", as such terms are used
in the not-for-profit corporation law, except that the purposes for
which any such corporation has been or may be formed under this chapter
shall not thereby be extended.

(c) The following provisions of the not-for-profit corporation law
shall not apply to benevolent orders: section two hundred one, article
four, paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of section eight hundred four,
section nine hundred seven, section nine hundred eight, section nine
hundred nine, section ten hundred twelve, and article fourteen.

(d) Section six hundred eight of the not-for-profit corporation law
shall not apply to any corporation to which this chapter applies to the
extent that the provisions of such section conflict with any provision
of the certificate of incorporation or of the by-laws, heretofore or
hereafter adopted, of such corporation. Action to amend the certificate
of incorporation or by-laws in relation to quorum requirements may be
taken at a special meeting of members at which the quorum requirements
applicable to the corporation as of August thirty-first, nineteen
hundred seventy-one are fulfilled, but action may be taken only once
under this sentence.

(e) For the purposes of this section and elsewhere in this chapter,
the effective date of the not-for-profit corporation law as to
corporations to which the not-for-profit corporation law is made
applicable by this sectin shall be September first, nineteen hundred
seventy-one.

2. From and after the effective date of this section the general
corporation law shall not apply to any corporation to which this chapter
applies.