A corporation sole may be formed under this part by the bishop, chief priest, presiding elder, or other presiding officer of any religious denomination, society, or church, for the purpose of administering and managing the affairs, property, and temporalities thereof.
Cal. Corp. Code § 10002
CORPORATIONS SOLE
Known as the Nonprofit Corporation Law
The act spans §§ 5000–10841 (129 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Hoagland v. Sandberg, Phoenix & Von Gontard, P.C. (2004)
Most recently applied in Puri v. Khalsa (January 2017)
Enacted by Stats. 1947, Ch. 1038.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.