Articles of Association; Execution; Acknowledgment; Retention of Copy; Filing Articles and Certificate of Consent; Body Politic or Corporation; Name; Powers, Rights, and Privileges.

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Sec. 4.

Said articles of association shall be executed in duplicate, and acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgment of deeds. One of such duplicate copies shall be retained by such corporation, and 1 copy shall be filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce. When said articles of association and said certificate of the district elder shall have been filed with the corporation and securities bureau of the department of commerce, the said persons so signing the said articles of association, and their associates and fellow members of said church, and all who may thereafter become members of said church, according to the discipline, rules, and usages of the Free Methodist church, shall thereby become, and thenceforth be a body politic or corporation, by the name expressed in said articles of association, with all the powers, rights, and privileges appertaining to religious corporations by the laws of this state.

History: 1901, Act 29, Imd. Eff. Mar. 26, 1901 ;-- CL 1915, 11006 ;-- CL 1929, 10891 ;-- CL 1948, 458.84 ;-- Am. 1982, Act 445, Eff. Mar. 30, 1983


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