Sec. 1. It shall be lawful for any 6 or more persons, professing attachment to the Protestant Episcopal church, to execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, 1 or more duplicate articles of agreement, in writing, whereby they shall agree to organize a church according to the usages of the Protestant Episcopal church, by the name and style set forth in such articles; and upon the execution and acknowledgment and filing thereof, as herein provided, such church shall become a body politic and corporate, by the name set forth in said articles, in accordance with the constitution, canons, doctrine, discipline and worship of the Protestant Episcopal church.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 458.251
Protestant Episcopal church; incorporation, procedure; body corporate
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 121 Mich. App. 705 - Bennison v. Sharp (1982)
Most recently applied in 121 Mich. App. 705 - Bennison v. Sharp (December 1982)
1899, Act 40, Imd
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