Mich. Comp. Laws » Michigan Compiled Laws / Chapter 450 / Act 327 of 1931
Michigan Compiled Laws

Mich. Comp. Laws § 450.181 (2026)

Ecclesiastical corporations; by-laws.

✓ current as of July 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section MI-LEGlegislature.mi.gov JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

MICHIGAN GENERAL CORPORATION STATUTE


Act 327 of 1931


450.181 Ecclesiastical corporations; by-laws.

Sec. 181.

    Same; by-laws. Every such ecclesiastical corporation shall have authority to adopt by-laws prescribing the qualifications of members; the manner in which they shall be admitted, suspended or expelled; the number and official titles of the person or persons who control the temporal affairs of such corporation; their terms of office; the manner of their selection and removal from office; their respective official duties; the time and manner of calling and holding church business meetings and the number of members constituting a quorum; how far such corporation shall be subject to the approval or control of any other corporation or higher church body which corporation or body shall be named; the manner and condition under which property, both real and personal, may be acquired, held and disposed of; and such other by-laws as may be deemed necessary for the management of the affairs of such corporation. The by-laws may also prescribe how the same may be altered, amended or repealed.

History: 1931, Act 327, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 450.181

Compiler's Notes:

    The catchline following the act section number was incorporated as part of the section when the act was enacted.

FormerLaw Notes:

    See section 4 of Ch. III of Part IV of Act 84 of 1921, being CL 1929, § 10112.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1954–2022 · leading case: Timothy Bogle v. Lorenzo Sewell (Mich. Ct. App. 2022).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Timothy Bogle v. Lorenzo Sewell (Mich. Ct. App. 2022). · cites it 4× “In addition to their constitutional arguments, defendants raise arguments concerning MCL 450.181 and MCL 450.185. Because defendants raised these arguments for the first time in what was functionally a motion for reconsideration, defendants failed to properly preserve these…”
Holt v. Trone, 67 N.W.2d 125 (Mich. 1954). “Such ecclesiastical corporation under CL 1948, §450.181 (Stat Ann § 21.182), shall have authority to adopt bylaws relative to the management of the corporation.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.