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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2014

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A N   A C T

AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1959 ENTITLED "AN

ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT, ENTITLED 'AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CERTAIN

PERSONS BY THE NAME OF THE RHODE ISLAND EPISCOPAL CONVENTION,'

PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION 1844, AND OF SEVERAL ACTS IN AMENDMENT

THEREOF AND IN ADDITION THERETO"

     Introduced By: Representative Brian C.Newberry

     Date Introduced: February 27, 2014

     Referred To: House Corporations

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1959

ENTITLED “AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT, ENTITLED ‘AN ACT TO

INCORPORATE CERTAIN PERSONS BY THE NAME OF THE RHODE ISLAND

EPISCOPAL CONVENTION,’ PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION 1844, AND OF

SEVERAL ACTS IN AMENDMENT THEREOF AND IN ADDITION THERETO”

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Section 1 of an Act of the Public Laws of 1959 entitled “AN ACT IN

AMENDMENT OF AN ACT OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1959 ENTITLED ‘AN ACT IN

AMENDMENT OF AN ACT, ENTITLED ‘AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CERTAIN

PERSONS BY THE NAME OF THE RHODE ISLAND EPISCOPAL CONVENTION,’

PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION 1844, AND OF SEVERAL ACTS IN AMENDMENT

THEREOF AND IN ADDITION THERETO,’” is hereby further amended to read as follows:

     Section 1. That John P. K. Henshaw, Nathan B. Crocker, George W. Hathaway, Lilas A.

Crane, Thomas Burgess, Resolved Waterman, George Mumford, and such others as are members

of the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the diocese of Rhode Island, and their

successors, chosen according to the constitution of the corporation, be and they hereby are created

and made a corporation and body politic forever, by the name and style of ‘”The Diocese of

Rhode Island;’” and by that name shall be, and hereby are created, and made capable in law in

addition to and exclusive of church buildings and the fixtures and furniture thereof and lands of

the same, and parsonage houses and lands for the same, as well as all other forms of real and

personal property, and tangible and intangible property, including, but not limited to, endowment

funds, to purchase, receive, have, own, possess, and enjoy other lands, tenements, hereditaments,

goods, chattels, and estate of any kind or nature whatsoever not exceeding six million dollars

($6,000,000) without any financial limitation on the amount or value of such property that may

be held by the corporation and its successors; and the same to sell, grant, demise, and dispose of;

to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended

against, in courts of record, or in any other place whatsoever; also to make, have, and use a

common seal, and the same to break, alter, or renew at pleasure. Also to enact, establish and put

in execution such canons, by-laws, ordinances, and regulations, they not being contrary to the

constitution of this state or the laws thereof, or the Constitution of the United States, as to it shall

seem expedient; and also to alter its said constitution contained. The said corporation and its real

and personal estate shall be exempt from all taxes imposed by the state and by any political

subdivision thereof; which said exemption shall apply to all taxes imposed by law upon the right

to receive real and personal estate.

     SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N   A C T

AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF 1959 ENTITLED "AN

ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT, ENTITLED 'AN ACT TO INCORPORATE CERTAIN

PERSONS BY THE NAME OF THE RHODE ISLAND EPISCOPAL CONVENTION,'

PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION 1844, AND OF SEVERAL ACTS IN AMENDMENT

THEREOF AND IN ADDITION THERETO"

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     This act would remove any financial limits on the value of property, both real and

personal, tangible and intangible, that could be owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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