MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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PART V. PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, DIOCESE OF MARYLAND
5-333. SCOPE OF PART; APPLICABILITY OF PART I.

(A)   SCOPE OF PART.

THIS PART APPLIES TO EVERY RELIGIOUS CORPORATION
FORMED IN THIS STATE BY A PARISH OR SEPARATE CONGREGATION
THAT IS IN UNION WITH OR INTENDING TO APPLY FOR UNION
WITH THE CONVENTION OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN
THE DIOCESE OF MARYLAND, AS CREATED BY CHAPTER 57, ACTS
OF 1840.

(B)   APPLICABILITY OF PART I.

(1) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (2) OF
THIS SUBSECTION OR OTHERWISE IN THIS PART:

(1)    PART I OF THIS SUBTITLE APPLIES TO AND
REGULATES THE CORPORATE AND TEMPORAL AFFAIRS OF EVERY
RELIGIOUS CORPORATION DESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION (A) OF THIS
SECTION, INCLUDING THOSE INCORPORATED UNDER CHAPTER 24,
ACTS OF 1798, OR BY SPECIAL ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY;
AND

(II) TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OR OF THIS STATE, THE
CHARTER OF EACH OF THEM IS DEEMED TO BE AMENDED TO
CONFORM TO THIS SUBTITLE UNTIL THE CHARTER OTHERWISE IS
AMENDED BY THE PARISH OR SEPARATE CONGREGATION AS
PROVIDED IN PART I OF THIS SUBTITLE.

(2)   AS TO ANY PARISH OR SEPARATE CONGREGATION
THAT WAS INCORPORATED BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE
STATE CONSTITUTION OF 1851 AND, THEREFORE, HAS AN
IRREPEALABLE CHARTER, UNLESS THAT PARISH OR SEPARATE
CONGREGATION ACCEPTS, USES, ENJOYS, OR IN ANY WAY AVAILS
ITSELF OF ANY RIGHT, PRIVILEGE, OR ADVANTAGE GRANTED OR
CONFERRED BY ANY STATUTE ENACTED AFTER NOVEMBER 3, 1891:

(I)   PART I OF THIS SUBTITLE DOES NOT APPLY TO
THE PARISH OR SEPARATE CONGREGATION; AND

(II)    THE PARISH OR SEPARATE CONGREGATION
CONTINUES TO BE GOVERNED BY THE STATUTE UNDER WHICH IT
WAS INCORPORATED.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This section is new language derived
without substantive change from Art. 23, §
275 (a), the first sentence of § 275(b), and
the third and fourth sentences of § 275(d).

The present reference to the effective date of
subsection (b) of this section—"July 1,
1973"—is deleted as unnecessary.

As to Chapter 67, Acts of 1840 and Chapter 24,
Acts of 1798 (the latter being commonly known