(805 ILCS 110/46g) (from Ch. 32, par. 182)
Sec. 46g. Any ecclesiastical body, or diocesan, or like ecclesiastical officer,
may elect, or nominate, or appoint, according to the usages, customs,
rules, regulations, articles of association, constitution, by-laws or
canons of such ecclesiastical body, diocesan or like ecclesiastical
officer, or any sect or denomination, 2 or more members of such sect, or
denomination, residing respectively in any ecclesiastical districts, or
dioceses, over which such ecclesiastical body, or diocesan, or like
ecclesiastical officer shall have jurisdiction, as trustees, who may become
incorporated under Sections 46a to 46k, inclusive, of this Act, and may
take, hold, regulate, control and dispose of any real, personal or mixed
property in and outside of this State, devoted to eleemosynary,
educational, cemetery or religious purposes (not exclusively belonging to,
or used by, any particular congregation, church or society which as an
organization, incorporated or unincorporated, is in the opinion of its
trustees, wardens, vestrymen or other officers whose powers and duties are
similar to trustees financially able to own and maintain such property) for
the use of all of the members of the sect, or denomination within said
districts, or dioceses, or for the use and benefit of such ecclesiastical
body, diocesan, or like ecclesiastical officer, or of any parishes,
congregations, societies, churches, missions, benevolent, charitable or
educational institutions existing under or related to the same, according
to Sections 46a to 46k, inclusive, of this Act, according to the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act,
or according to the usages, customs, rules, regulations, articles
of association, constitution, by-laws or canons of such ecclesiastical
body, diocesan, or like ecclesiastical officer. The presiding officer or
authorized representative of such ecclesiastical body or diocesan, or like
ecclesiastical officer, shall, by virtue of his office, be a trustee of any
such corporation and the number, term of office and qualifications of said
trustees, their removal and succession and their powers, duties and manner
of appointment, shall be regulated in the manner provided in Sections 46a
to 46k, inclusive, of this Act. An affidavit showing the appointment of
such trustees made and executed by the presiding officer, or duly
authorized representative of such ecclesiastical body, or diocesan, or like
ecclesiastical officer, or such other person as may be designated by said
trustees for such purpose, in substantially the same manner and form as
provided in Section 46b of this Act shall be filed in the office of the
recorder in the county in which the principal office or place of
worship of such corporation is intended to be situated and also a duplicate
copy in the office of the Secretary of State, whenever any district or
diocese, under the jurisdiction or patronage of such ecclesiastical body,
or diocesan, or like ecclesiastical officer, comprises more than any one
county of this State or extends outside of the State.
It shall be the duty of the recorder and the Secretary of State to
record such affidavits and said affidavits or copies thereof, duly
certified by the recorder and Secretary of State, shall be received as
evidence of the due incorporation of the organization. No affidavit of
appointment after the first need be filed for record.
(Source: P.A. 96-29, eff. 6-30-09.)
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