HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                             65

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Corporations and Associations

Section 5-307

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1975 Volume and 1983 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Corporations and Associations

5-307.

(a)  The trustees shall:

(1)  Keep an accurate record book;

(2)  Allow inspection of the record book by members of
the religious corporation; and

(3)  Allow the proceedings recorded in the record book
to be presented before a public meeting, if required by five or
more members of the religious corporation.

(b)  Unless the plan provides otherwise, the trustees shall
be elected and their successors continued at the time and place
ordinarily used for public meetings of the church, by the
individuals who, according to the custom and usage of the church,
have a voice in the management and direction of congregational or
temporal affairs.

(c)   [The] UNLESS THE PLAN PERMITS OTHERWISE, THE minister
of the church or, if there is more than one minister, the senior
minister shall be a trustee of the religious corporation, in
addition to the trustees required by § 5-302(b)(l) of this
subtitle.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1984.

Approved April 10, 1984.

CHAPTER 28
(House Bill 122)
AN ACT concerning

Corporations Registered in Maryland -