Section 6. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for branch institutions; establishment, maintenance and management thereof  


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  • Any  religious  corporation may acquire property for associate houses, church
      buildings,  chapels,  mission-houses,  school-houses   for   Sunday   or
      parochial  schools, or dispensaries of medicine for its ministers, their
      wives, husbands and dependent children and for the poor, or property for
      the residence of its ministers,  their  wives,  husbands  and  dependent
      children,  teachers or employees, or property for a home for the aged or
      nursery school or day care center. The persons attending public  worship
      in  any  such associate house, mission-house, church building, or chapel
      connected therewith shall not by  reason  thereof  have  any  rights  as
      members  of  the  parent corporation. The persons statedly worshiping in
      any such house, mission-house, church building or chapel may,  with  the
      consent   of   the  trustees  of  such  corporation,  become  separately
      incorporated as a church, and the parent corporation may,  in  pursuance
      of  the provisions of law regulating the disposition of real property by
      religious corporations, rent or convey to the new corporation,  with  or
      without  consideration,  any  such  associate  house,  church  building,
      chapel, mission-house, school-house or dispensary and the lot  connected
      therewith,  subject  to  such  regulations as the trustees of the parent
      corporation may make. Any religious  corporation  shall  have  power  to
      establish,  maintain  and  manage by its trustees or other officers as a
      part of its religious purpose a home for the aged or nursery  school  or
      day  care center, and may take and hold by conveyance, donation, bequest
      or devise real and personal property for such purpose, and may  purchase
      and may erect suitable buildings therefor. Any such corporation may take
      and  hold  any  grant,  donation,  bequest or devise of real or personal
      property heretofore or hereafter made upon trust, and apply the same, or
      the income thereof,  under  the  direction  of  its  trustees  or  other
      officers, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and managing such
      a  home,  school or center and for the erection, preservation, repair or
      extension of any building or buildings for such purpose.