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Code · Washington · Title 24 — Corporations and Associations (Nonprofit) · Chapter 24.12

RCW 24.12.010

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Any person, being the bishop, overseer, or presiding elder of any church or religious denomination in this state, may, in conformity with the constitution, canons, rules, regulations, or discipline of such church or denomination, become a corporation sole, in the manner prescribed in this chapter, as nearly as may be; and, thereupon, said bishop, overseer, or presiding elder, as the case may be, together with his or her successors in office or position, by his or her official designation, shall be held and deemed to be a body corporate, with all the rights and powers prescribed in the case of corporations aggregate; and with all the privileges provided by law for religious corporations.
[ 2011 c 336 s 671 ; 1915 c 79 s 1 ; RRS s 3884.]
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