Alabama § 10A-20-2.01 Incorporation

Alabama Statutes

§ 10A-20-2.01 — Incorporation

Alabama § 10A-20-2.01

Title 10AAlabama Business and Nonprofit Entities Code

Ch. 20Special Purpose Entities

Art. 2Churches, Public Societies, and Graveyard Owners

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Bluebook

Ala. Code § 10A-20-2.01 (2026).

Text

(a)The members of any church, conference of churches, religious society, educational society, benevolent, monument, or burial society, patriotic society, societies for the purpose of nature study or scientific research, society for establishing public parks or places of public recreation, societies for promoting knowledge, promoting arts, or promoting sciences, societies for purposes of like kind or the owners of a graveyard, or the trustees of any of the foregoing churches, conferences, institutions, or societies elected by the organization, or organizations, of the church, conferences, institution, association, or society desiring to become incorporated, shall adopt a resolution signifying the intention and elect not less than three trustees.

(b)The trustees shall, within 30 days after

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(a) The members of any church, conference of churches, religious society, educational society, benevolent, monument, or burial society, patriotic society, societies for the purpose of nature study or scientific research, society for establishing public parks or places of public recreation, societies for promoting knowledge, promoting arts, or promoting sciences, societies for purposes of like kind or the owners of a graveyard, or the trustees of any of the foregoing churches, conferences, institutions, or societies elected by the organization, or organizations, of the church, conferences, institution, association, or society desiring to become incorporated, shall adopt a resolution signifying the intention and elect not less than three trustees.
(b) The trustees shall, within 30 days after their election, deliver to the Secretary of State for filing, a certificate stating the corporate name selected, the names of the trustees, and the length of time for which they are elected, shall pay to the Secretary of State the filing fee under Chapter 1 for filing a certificate of formation. The members of the society, their associates, and successors are, from the filing of the certificate, incorporated by the name specified.

Legislative History

(Code 1852, §§1257-1260; Code 1867, §§1521, 1522, 1524, 1529, 1530; Code 1876, §§1991, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2001; Code 1886, §§1694, 1695; Code 1896, §§1302, 1303; Code 1907, §§3613, 3614; Acts 1919, No. 136, p. 117; Code 1923, §§7167, 7168; Acts 1927, No. 119, p. 83; Code 1940, T. 10, §§124, 125; Acts 1994, No. 94-573, p. 1046, §1; §10-4-20; amended and renumbered by Act 2009-513, p. 967, §326; Act 2020-73, §10.)