New Jersey § 16:19-2

Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 16:19-2, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 16:19-2.

Any association enumerated in section 16:19-1 of this Title may, by a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of the association,

held in their regular place of meeting and called by them upon ten days' notice in

writing set up at such place in plain view, adopt a name, constitution and by-laws,

elect a board of directors, not to exceed thirty (except that in the case of a Young

Men's Christian Association, a Young Men's Hebrew Association, a Young Women's Hebrew

Association or a Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association such board may be

of any number), and declare themselves incorporated by such name. A copy of the resolution, with the names of the directors, together with a copy

of the official seal of the association, certified, under oath, to be correct by the

officers of the meeting or meetings at which such resolution was adopted, directors

elected and seal adopted, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county

in which the association is located, for which service the county clerk shall be entitled

to receive the fee provided in section 22:2-19 1 of the Title Fees and Costs. Thereupon the association shall be a corporation, with all the powers conferred

by article one, of chapter one, of this Title ( § 16:1-1 et seq. ). 1

Repealed; see, now, N.J.S.A. § 22A:2-29.

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