{"data":{"id":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-315.02","jurisdiction":"us-mn","citation":"Minn. Stat. § 315.02","heading":"CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION OF TRUSTEES.","body":"When trustees have been chosen before February 1, 1877 by an assembly of a church or religious society, in accordance with its constitution, rules, or usages, and a certificate of the choice made by its presiding officer and secretary, or either of them, specifying the trustees' corporate name and recorded, with intent to make them a corporate body, they must in all legal proceedings be considered a religious corporation under this chapter from the time of the recording of the certificate. Their later acts as a corporation are valid under this chapter. Conveyances to them as a corporation are confirmed.","path":["BUSINESS, SOCIAL, AND CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS","CHAPTER 315. RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES"],"source_url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/315.02","current_through":"2025 Minnesota Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T22:10:41Z","sha256":"06374135c0026ef0acd3ba9fac827b686bd275a24468657e287ed610e0277e12","source_id":"us-mn","stale":false,"prev":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-315.01","next":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-315.03"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}