New Jersey Statutes
§ 16:12-2 — Certificate; execution, filing, recording.
New Jersey § 16:12-2
JurisdictionNew Jersey
Title 16CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS, RELIGIOUS
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Bluebook
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 16:12-2 (2026).
Text
16:12-2. A certificate shall be executed, under the hands and seals of the chairperson and secretary of the meeting and acknowledged or proved in the same manner as deeds of real estate, setting forth: a. That the meeting was called and organized as provided in R.S.16:12-1; b. The name assumed as the corporate title; c. The day fixed for the annual meeting; d. The number of vestrymembers; and e. The names of the persons elected as wardens and vestrymembers and their terms of office. The certificate shall be filed and recorded forthwith in the office of the clerk of the county in which the parish is located, whereupon such wardens and vestrymembers, together with the rector, shall be a corporation, and shall constitute the trustees and the vestry of the parish. amended 2017, c.151, s.2.
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Nearby Sections
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§ 16:12-1
Incorporation; meeting.§ 16:12-10
Annual parish election.§ 16:12-11
Election of officers; tenure.§ 16:12-12
Warden or vestrymember; filling vacancy.§ 16:12-13
Special parish meetings.§ 16:12-14
Changes; procedure.§ 16:12-15
Consolidation of parishes.§ 16:12-16
Property of extinct parish§ 16:12-17
"Parish" as meaning "congregation"§ 16:12-18
Incorporation§ 16:12-19
Powers; holding property in trust§ 16:12-21
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Bluebook (online)
New Jersey § 16:12-2, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/nj/16/16%3A12-2.