2014 -- S 3079
Enacted 06/30/14
A N A C T
Introduced By: Senator William A.Walaska
Date Introduced: June 05, 2014
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1959 ENTITLED “AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT, ENTITLED ‘AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CERTAIN PERSONS BY THE NAME OF THE RHODE ISLAND EPISCOPAL CONVENTION,’ PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION 1844, AND OF SEVERAL ACTS IN AMENDMENT THEREOF AND IN ADDITION THERETO”
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 1 of an Act of the Public Laws of 1959 entitled “AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1959 ENTITLED ‘AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT, ENTITLED ‘AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CERTAIN PERSONS BY THE NAME OF THE RHODE ISLAND EPISCOPAL CONVENTION,’ PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION 1844, AND OF SEVERAL ACTS IN AMENDMENT THEREOF AND IN ADDITION THERETO,’” is hereby further amended to read as follows:
Section
1. That John P. K. Henshaw, Nathan B. Crocker, George W. Hathaway, Lilas A.
Crane, Thomas Burgess, Resolved Waterman, George Mumford, and such others as
are members of the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the diocese
of Rhode Island, and their successors, chosen according to the constitution of
the corporation, be and they hereby are created and made a corporation and body
politic forever, by the name and style of ‘”The Diocese of
Rhode Island;’” and by that name
shall be, and hereby are created, and made capable in law in addition to and exclusive of
church buildings and the fixtures and furniture thereof and lands of the same,
and parsonage houses and lands for the same, as
well as all other forms of real and personal property, and tangible and
intangible property, including, but not limited to, endowment funds, to purchase, receive, have, own, possess, and enjoy
other lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, and estate of any kind
or nature whatsoever not exceeding six
million dollars ($6,000,000) without any financial limitation on the amount or value of
such property that may be held by the corporation and its successors; and the same to sell, grant, demise, and dispose of;
to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and
be defended against, in courts of record, or in any other place whatsoever;
also to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, or
renew at pleasure. Also to enact, establish and put in execution such canons,
by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, they not being contrary to the
constitution of this state or the laws thereof, or the cConstitution
of the United States, as to it shall seem expedient; and also to alter its said
constitution contained. The said corporation and its real and personal estate
shall be exempt from all taxes imposed by the state and by any political
subdivision thereof; which said exemption shall apply to all taxes imposed by
law upon the right to receive real and personal estate.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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LC005847
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