Michigan Laws 450.134 – Parent corporations; articles of incorporation
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Parent lodge; articles of incorporation. If such society or lodge shall be intended to operate as a state jurisdiction of a lodge or society having a parent organization without this state, then such persons so incorporating shall exhibit with their articles the charter or permit from such foreign parent society or lodge permitting such incorporation with this state. The persons so incorporating shall execute and file articles in the form prescribed in section 4 of this act, with the secretary of state, as prescribed for non-profit corporations generally; and in addition to the other requirements of said section 4, the incorporators shall state in such articles:
(1) That such society or corporation shall have a secret ritual, and a representative form of government, whose purposes are not unlawful, and
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 450.134
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories belonging to the United States; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the district and territories. See Michigan Laws 8.3o
(2) The executive offices within such society by such peculiar name as they shall be respectively known, and
(3) The principal features of organization, the distinguishing purposes and the name of the society by which all subordinate lodges thereof shall also be known when organized.