Section 323. Certificate of incorporation  


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  • The presiding officer of such a
      meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat  shall
      be  appointed  at  such a meeting to execute and acknowledge, before any
      person authorized to take acknowledgment  of  deeds,  a  certificate  of
      incorporation  which  shall  have been submitted to and approved by such
      meeting. Such certificate shall set forth: the place and  date  of  said
      meeting  for  incorporation;  the  name  of  said  church; the township,
      village or city, and the county in which said church shall  be  located;
      the  statement  that  there were six or more qualified voters present at
      the meeting where this act of incorporation was  authorized;  the  names
      and respective periods of office of the trustees elected; the signatures
      and  residences  of  those  authorized  to  execute  and acknowledge the
      certificate   of   incorporation;   the   approval   of   the   district
      superintendent  of  the  district  in which the church is located; and a
      statement that the corporation shall support the doctrine and  shall  be
      subject  to  the laws, usages and ministerial appointments of The United
      Methodist Church as from time to time established, made and declared  by
      the  lawful  authority of said church. On the filing of such certificate
      in the office of the county clerk of the county  in  which  such  church
      shall  be  located  the members of such church qualified to vote at such
      meeting and those who shall thereafter, from time to time, be  qualified
      voters, at the corporate meetings thereof, shall be a corporation by the
      name  stated  in  such certificate, and the persons therein stated to be
      elected trustees of such church shall be the trustees thereof,  for  the
      terms  for  which  they  were  respectively  elected,  and  until  their
      successors are elected.