Massachusetts § 1 Corporate bodies, church officers as

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 1 — Corporate bodies, church officers as

Massachusetts § 1

Part IADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

Title XICERTAIN RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE MATTERS

Ch. 68DONATIONS AND CONVEYANCES FOR PIOUS AND CHARITABLE USES

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 68, § 1 (2026).

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Section 1. The deacons, wardens or similar officers of churches or religious societies, and the trustees of the United Methodist churches, appointed according to the discipline and usages thereof, shall, if residents of the commonwealth, be deemed bodies corporate for the purpose of taking and holding in succession all gifts, grants, bequests and devises of real or personal property, made either to them and their successors, or to their respective churches, if unincorporated, or to the poor of their churches.

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Section 1. The deacons, wardens or similar officers of churches or religious societies, and the trustees of the United Methodist churches, appointed according to the discipline and usages thereof, shall, if residents of the commonwealth, be deemed bodies corporate for the purpose of taking and holding in succession all gifts, grants, bequests and devises of real or personal property, made either to them and their successors, or to their respective churches, if unincorporated, or to the poor of their churches.