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Section
3

Filing and Recording Certificates of Incorporation of Religious Corporations.

Section
4

Property of Unincorporated Society Transferred by Its Incorporation.

Section
4-A

Age Qualifications of Voters.

Section
5

General Powers and Duties of Trustees of Religious Corporations.

Section
5-A

Investment of Funds.

Section
5-B

Section
6

Acquisition of Property by Religious Corporations for Branch Institutions; Establishment, Maintenance and Management Thereof.

Section
7

Acquisition of Property by Religious Corporations for Cemetery Purposes; Management Thereof.

Section
7-A

Deeds for Cemetery Purposes; Presumption.

Section
8

Lot Owners' Rights.

Section
8-A

Reacquisition of a Lot, Plot or Part Thereof by a Cemetery.

Section
9

Removal of Human Remains From One Cemetery of a Religious Corporation to Another Cemetery Owned by It.

Section
10

Acquisition of Property by Two or More Religious Corporations for a Common Parsonage.

Section
11

Correction and Confirmation of Conveyances to Religious Corporations.

Section
12

Sale, Mortgage and Lease of Real Property of Religious Corporations.

Section
13

Consolidation or Merger of Incorporated Churches.

Section
14

Judicial Investigation of Amount of Property of Religious Corporations.

Section
15

Corporations With Governing Authority Over, or Advisory Relations With, Churches or Synods, or Both.

Section
15-A

Consolidation of Incorporated Presbyteries.

Section
15-B

Consolidation or Merger of Incorporated Presbyterian and Lutheran Synods.

Section
16

Property of Extinct Churches.

Section
17

Property of Extinct Free Baptist Churches.

Section
17-A

Property of Extinct Seventh Day Baptist Churches and Seventh Day Baptist Religious Societies.

Section
17-B

Property of Extinct Presbyterian Churches in Connection With the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (u.s.a.).

Section
17-C

Property of Lutheran Congregations.

Section
18

Dissolution of Religious Corporations.

Section
19

Corporations for Organizing and Maintaining Mission Churches and Sunday Schools.

Section
20

Corporations for Acquiring Parsonages for District Superintendents and Camp-Meeting Grounds.

Section
21

Corporations for Acquiring Camp-Meeting Grounds for the Reformed Methodist Denomination.

Section
21-A

Corporations for Acquiring Lands for Parsonage or Camp-Meeting Purposes for the Free Methodist Denomination.

Section
22

Establishing and Maintaining a Home for Aged Poor.

Section
23

Powers of Churches Created by Special Laws.

Section
24

Government of Churches Incorporated Prior to January First, Eighteen Hundred and Twenty-Eight.

Section
25

Pastoral Relation.

Section
26

Worship.

Section
27

Reservation as to Baptist Churches, Churches of the United Church of Christ and Congregational Christian Churches.

Section
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. (98/21) Electronic Meetings. (588/21)