{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-33-271","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 33-271","heading":"District superintendent or presiding elder and stewards may form corporation.","body":"The district superintendent or presiding elder and a majority of the district stewards appointed according to the discipline of the Methodist Church, residing in any ecclesiastical district, the whole or a part of which is in this state, and which has been or shall be created by an annual conference of said church as a district superintendent's or presiding elder's district, may organize a corporation by making, signing and acknowledging before some officer competent to take acknowledgments of deeds, and filing in the office of the Secretary of the State, a certificate in writing in which shall be stated: The corporate name of such corporation; the town in such district in which it is to be located; the names, residences and official relations to the district of the persons signing such certificate; the number of trustees, not less than three nor more than fifteen, who shall manage the property and affairs of such corporation for the first year, and their names; and that the object of such corporation shall be to secure the benefits of this section and sections 33-272, 33-273 and 33-274.","path":["TITLE 33. CORPORATIONS","CHAPTER 598*. RELIGIOUS CORPORATIONS AND SOCIETIES","PART II*. PARTICULAR DENOMINATIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_598.htm#sec_33-271","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:11Z","sha256":"9e0b5d69e455f7eef5c572536a60ae0d5ff2f5622950d9eea2f21535e0706bad","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-33-270","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-33-272"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}