New Jersey § 1-1

§ 1-1.

a. This Title shall be known and may be cited as the “New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

Act.” b. This title shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes

and policies. c. Underlying purposes and policies of this title are, among others: (1) to simplify, clarify and modernize the law governing nonprofit corporations; (2) to provide a general corporate form for the conduct of lawful, nonprofit activities

with such variations and modifications from the form so provided as the interested

parties in any nonprofit corporation may agree upon, subject only to overriding interests

of this State and of third parties; and (3) to make the law governing nonprofit corporations as nearly compatible with the

New Jersey Business Corporation Act ( N.J.S. 14A:1-1 et seq. ) as may be practicable, subject to the particular requirements of nonprofit corporations. d. The presence in certain provisions of this title of the words “unless otherwise

provided in the certificate of incorporation” or “unless otherwise provided in the

certificate of incorporation or bylaws,” or words of similar import, does not imply

that the effect of other provisions may not be varied by provisions in the certificate

of incorporation or bylaws.