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Code · New Jersey · Title 16 — Courts and Judiciary · Chapter 11

16:11-18. Incorporation of presbytery; powers

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Any presbytery in this State of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, convened at a stated meeting in accordance with its usages, may, for the purpose of incorporation, elect, by ballot, from its members, 5 ministers and 5 ruling elders to be trustees of the same.
Such trustees shall adopt a name, shall certify such name under their hands and seals, and forthwith transmit such certificate to the Secretary of State, who shall forthwith record the same. Thereupon such trustees and their successors shall be a corporation by the name stated in such certificate, with the powers enumerated in section 16:1-4 of this Title, except that of paragraph "i" of said section.
Amended by L.1964, c. 270, s. 7.
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