{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-16-12-2","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 16:12-2","heading":"Certificate; execution, filing, recording.","body":"A certificate shall be executed, under the hands and seals of the chairperson and secretary of the meeting and acknowledged or proved in the same manner as deeds of real estate, setting forth:\na.\tThat the meeting was called and organized as provided in R.S.16:12-1;\nb.\tThe name assumed as the corporate title;\nc.\tThe day fixed for the annual meeting;\nd.\tThe number of vestrymembers; and\ne.\tThe names of the persons elected as wardens and vestrymembers and their terms of office.\nThe certificate shall be filed and recorded forthwith in the office of the clerk of the county in which the parish is located, whereupon such wardens and vestrymembers, together with the rector, shall be a corporation, and shall constitute the trustees and the vestry of the parish.\namended 2017, c.151, s.2.","path":["TITLE 16 CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS, RELIGIOUS"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"64b5f3ce7d9bdff29b0f6982507c348d825759420284db0c9845fa62620662af","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-16-12-1","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-16-12-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}