Legislation
ARTICLE 2
General Provisions
Religious Corporations (RCO) CHAPTER 51
ARTICLE 2
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 3. Filing and recording certificates of incorporation of
religious corporations.
4. Property of unincorporated society transferred by its
incorporation.
4-a. Age qualifications of voters.
5. General powers and duties of trustees of religious
corporations.
5-a. Investment of funds.
5-b.* Enacted without section heading.
6. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for
branch institutions; establishment, maintenance and
management thereof.
7. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for
cemetery purposes; management thereof.
7-a. Deeds for cemetery purposes; presumption.
8. Lot owners' rights.
8-a. Reacquisition of a lot, plot or part thereof by a
cemetery.
9. Removal of human remains from one cemetery of a religious
corporation to another cemetery owned by it.
10. Acquisition of property by two or more religious
corporations for a common parsonage.
11. Correction and confirmation of conveyances to religious
corporations.
12. Sale, mortgage and lease of real property of religious
corporations.
13. Consolidation or merger of incorporated churches.
14. Judicial investigation of amount of property of religious
corporations.
15. Corporations with governing authority over, or advisory
relations with, churches or synods, or both.
15-a. Consolidation of incorporated presbyteries.
15-b. Consolidation or merger of incorporated Presbyterian and
Lutheran synods.
16. Property of extinct churches.
17. Property of extinct Free Baptist churches.
17-a. Property of extinct Seventh Day Baptist churches and
Seventh Day Baptist religious societies.
17-b. Property of extinct Presbyterian churches in connection
with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.).
17-c. Property of Lutheran congregations.
18. Dissolution of religious corporations.
19. Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission
churches and Sunday schools.
20. Corporations for acquiring parsonages for district
superintendents and camp-meeting grounds.
21. Corporations for acquiring camp-meeting grounds for the
Reformed Methodist denomination.
21-a. Corporations for acquiring lands for parsonage or
camp-meeting purposes for the Free Methodist
denomination.
22. Establishing and maintaining a home for aged poor.
23. Powers of churches created by special laws.
24. Government of churches incorporated prior to January
first, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.
25. Pastoral relation.
26. Worship.
27. Reservation as to Baptist churches, churches of the United
Church of Christ and Congregational Christian churches.
* 28. Meetings for the duration of the state disaster emergency
declared by executive order two hundred two that began
on March seventh, two thousand twenty; electronic
communication.
* 28. Electronic meetings.
* NB § 28 Heading separately amended; cannot be put together
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 3. Filing and recording certificates of incorporation of
religious corporations.
4. Property of unincorporated society transferred by its
incorporation.
4-a. Age qualifications of voters.
5. General powers and duties of trustees of religious
corporations.
5-a. Investment of funds.
5-b.* Enacted without section heading.
6. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for
branch institutions; establishment, maintenance and
management thereof.
7. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for
cemetery purposes; management thereof.
7-a. Deeds for cemetery purposes; presumption.
8. Lot owners' rights.
8-a. Reacquisition of a lot, plot or part thereof by a
cemetery.
9. Removal of human remains from one cemetery of a religious
corporation to another cemetery owned by it.
10. Acquisition of property by two or more religious
corporations for a common parsonage.
11. Correction and confirmation of conveyances to religious
corporations.
12. Sale, mortgage and lease of real property of religious
corporations.
13. Consolidation or merger of incorporated churches.
14. Judicial investigation of amount of property of religious
corporations.
15. Corporations with governing authority over, or advisory
relations with, churches or synods, or both.
15-a. Consolidation of incorporated presbyteries.
15-b. Consolidation or merger of incorporated Presbyterian and
Lutheran synods.
16. Property of extinct churches.
17. Property of extinct Free Baptist churches.
17-a. Property of extinct Seventh Day Baptist churches and
Seventh Day Baptist religious societies.
17-b. Property of extinct Presbyterian churches in connection
with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.).
17-c. Property of Lutheran congregations.
18. Dissolution of religious corporations.
19. Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission
churches and Sunday schools.
20. Corporations for acquiring parsonages for district
superintendents and camp-meeting grounds.
21. Corporations for acquiring camp-meeting grounds for the
Reformed Methodist denomination.
21-a. Corporations for acquiring lands for parsonage or
camp-meeting purposes for the Free Methodist
denomination.
22. Establishing and maintaining a home for aged poor.
23. Powers of churches created by special laws.
24. Government of churches incorporated prior to January
first, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.
25. Pastoral relation.
26. Worship.
27. Reservation as to Baptist churches, churches of the United
Church of Christ and Congregational Christian churches.
* 28. Meetings for the duration of the state disaster emergency
declared by executive order two hundred two that began
on March seventh, two thousand twenty; electronic
communication.
* 28. Electronic meetings.
* NB § 28 Heading separately amended; cannot be put together