HRS §419-1
Forming a corporation sole for a church
This section lets a church's top leader, like a bishop or chief priest, create a special nonprofit corporation to manage the church's property and business in their area. It only covers who can form it and why.
children
The statute, as written — Formation of corporation sole for ecclesiastical purposes
A nonprofit corporation sole may be formed hereunder by the bishop, chief priest, presiding elder, or other presiding officer of any church, for the purposes of administering and managing the affairs, property, and temporalities of the church, in the district within which the bishop, chief priest, presiding elder, or other presiding officer has ecclesiastical jurisdiction. [L Sp 1941, c 58, pt of §1(6765); RL 1945, §8401; RL 1955, §175-1; HRS §419-1]
LawTrove is not legal advice. The summary above is a computer-generated restatement — the authoritative text is the official version linked above.