Michigan § 450.134 - Parent corporations; articles of incorporation.
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§ 450.134. Parent corporations; articles of incorporation.
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:
That such society or corporation shall have a secret ritual, and a representative form of government, whose purposes are not unlawful, and
The executive offices within such society by such peculiar name as they shall be respectively known, and
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.
Source: official Michigan text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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