{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-67-52","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 67, § 52","heading":"Church members only to be members of corporation; associate membership","body":"Section 52. None but members of such church shall be members of such corporation, and only resident members shall vote; but any such corporation may, upon such conditions as it may prescribe, admit any regular financial supporters of the church to associate membership, with a vote upon financial questions only: provided, that no action of a meeting in which associate members have taken part, looking to the reduction of a minister's salary or the alienation of church property, shall be valid until the same has been ratified by a meeting of church members only, or until sixty days have elapsed without a written request of ten church members for such a meeting.","path":["Part I","Title XI","Chapter 67"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXI/Chapter67/Section52","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:21:16Z","sha256":"c95e293b2e6303b807d6d9a55f79a17bc521f033956d99540b87caf00445f24d","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-67-51","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-67-53"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}