Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 68 § 1

Current through Chapter 112 of the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 68:1 - Church officers as corporate bodies

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.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 68, § 1