Massachusetts § 2 Corporate bodies; status of ministers and lay officials

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 2 — Corporate bodies; status of ministers and lay officials

Massachusetts § 2

Part IADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

Title XICERTAIN RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE MATTERS

Ch. 68DONATIONS AND CONVEYANCES FOR PIOUS AND CHARITABLE USES

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Bluebook

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 68, § 2 (2026).

Text

Section 2. When the ministers, elders or vestry of a church are joined in the gifts, grants, bequests or devises mentioned in the preceding section, as donees or grantees with the deacons, wardens or trustees, such officers and their successors, with the deacons, wardens or trustees, shall be deemed the corporation for the purposes mentioned in said section.

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