§ 1-A — Applicability of not-for-profit corporation law to benevolent orders

§ 1-a. Applicability of not-for-profit corporation law to benevolent\norders. 1. The not-for-profit corporation law applies to every\ncorporation heretofore or hereafter formed under this chapter, or under\nany other statute or special act of this state, or under laws other than\nthe statutes of this state, which has as its purpose or among its\npurposes a purpose for which a corporation may be formed under this\nchapter, provided that:\n (a) If any provision of the not-for-profit corporation law conflicts\nwith any provision of this chapter, the provision of this chapter shall\nprevail and the conflicting provision of the not-for-profit corporation\nlaw shall not apply in such case. If any provision of this chapter\nrelates to a matter embraced in the not-for-profit corporation law but\nis not in conflict therewith, both provisions shall apply.\n (b) A corporation to which the not-for-profit corporation law is made\napplicable by this section shall be treated as a "corporation",\n"domestic corporation", or "foreign corporation", as such terms are used\nin the not-for-profit corporation law, except that the purposes for\nwhich any such corporation has been or may be formed under this chapter\nshall not thereby be extended.\n (c) The following provisions of the not-for-profit corporation law\nshall not apply to benevolent orders: section two hundred one, article\nfour, paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of section eight hundred four,\nsection nine hundred seven, section nine hundred eight, section nine\nhundred nine, section ten hundred twelve, and article fourteen.\n (d) Section six hundred eight of the not-for-profit corporation law\nshall not apply to any corporation to which this chapter applies to the\nextent that the provisions of such section conflict with any provision\nof the certificate of incorporation or of the by-laws, heretofore or\nhereafter adopted, of such corporation. Action to amend the certificate\nof incorporation or by-laws in relation to quorum requirements may be\ntaken at a special meeting of members at which the quorum requirements\napplicable to the corporation as of August thirty-first, nineteen\nhundred seventy-one are fulfilled, but action may be taken only once\nunder this sentence.\n (e) For the purposes of this section and elsewhere in this chapter,\nthe effective date of the not-for-profit corporation law as to\ncorporations to which the not-for-profit corporation law is made\napplicable by this sectin shall be September first, nineteen hundred\nseventy-one.\n 2. From and after the effective date of this section the general\ncorporation law shall not apply to any corporation to which this chapter\napplies.\n