Section 201-A. Incorporation of the Religious Society of Friends  


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  • An
      unincorporated meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in this state
      may be incorporated by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate
      of incorporation, stating the corporate name by which such meeting shall
      be known, and the county, town, city  or  village  where  its  principal
      place  of  worship  or principal office is or is intended to be located.
      Such certificate of incorporation shall be executed and acknowledged  by
      the  clerk of such meeting, and shall have attached thereto a statement,
      duly executed and acknowledged by the secretary, assistant clerk or such
      person as shall have the duty of recording the transactions of  business
      sessions  of  meetings  of  such  meeting, certifying that at a business
      session or meeting of such meeting, duly held and  upon  not  less  than
      thirty  days notice, to the members thereof, as hereinafter provided, by
      a minute of the proceedings thereat,  duly  approved  according  to  the
      usage  and  custom  of  such  meeting,  the  clerk  of  such meeting was
      authorized  and  directed  to  execute  and  file  such  certificate  of
      incorporation.  Such  notice shall be in writing, shall be given by mail
      addressed to the last known address  of  each  member  of  such  meeting
      according  to  the  records thereof, and shall state in substance that a
      meeting of such unincorporated meeting will be held at its  usual  place
      of   convening  at  a  specified  date  and  hour  for  the  purpose  of
      incorporating such  meeting.  On  the  filing  of  such  certificate  in
      accordance  with the provisions of this chapter, such meeting shall be a
      corporation by the name stated in the certificate.