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...sors in office for educational, charitable, or benevolent purposes, to be conducted in this state, and when such deed or will provides that the trustees shall become a body corporate to hold and invest said property and money and to administer said trust, said trustees upon accepting said trust shall file with the secretary of state articles of incorporation as provided by section 1702.04 of the Revised Code, togethe...

...ode of regulations adopted pursuant thereto.

...a vice-president, a treasurer and a secretary. The board may create other offices deemed necessary or designated by such deed or will.

...ade to it or to such corporation in perpetuity, in trust, the principal or income of which, or any part thereof as may be provided by such grant or devise, is to be used and applied for the purposes for which the original trust was established. In such case said money or property shall be invested and administered in accordance with the code of regulations of such corporation. A certified copy of the deed or will mak...

...torney of the county in which a charitable trust incorporated as provided in section 1719.01 of the Revised Code has its general office may examine the accounts and records of such corporation, and may proceed by action in the proper courts to enforce the administration of the trust and the investment and application of its funds and property in accordance with the deed or will creating it. A copy of the annual fina...

...art, or of any of such officials, and names others to be associated with them, and provides for the appointment of successors to such persons named to act with such officials, such executor, or his successor, and the persons named in section 1719.07 of the Revised Code may constitute themselves a body corporate, with the general powers of benevolent corporations.

...ute, acknowledge, and file with the secretary of state articles of incorporation. After the probate of such a will, and if within six months of such probate he or they do not file such articles, then a minority of the officials for the time being named in such will may execute, acknowledge, and file them, and therein must set forth: (A) A copy of the will to carry out whose provisions the corporation is organized; ...

...named in a will providing for a charitable trust as specified in section 1719.06 of the Revised Code, the other persons therein named, and, in case the articles are filed by the executor, the not more than two citizens and residents of the county in which the charities are to be administered or the institution or school located who execute and acknowledge them with such executor, shall, upon the filing of the article...

...Until the estate is finally settled, the board of directors of a charitable trust incorporated as provided in sections 1719.06 to 1719.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may meet in the state of the domicile of the testator.

...de, shall consist of a president, a secretary, a treasurer, and such others as the board of directors deems necessary. The president shall be a member of such board.

...The board of directors of a charitable trust incorporated under sections 1719.06 to 1719.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may adopt and change organic rules, regulations, and bylaws.

... 1719.06 of the Revised Code is applicable, to protect and carry out the purposes named in the will, without waiting for the organization of the corporation.

...rity vote of the members present at a meeting called according to the regulations and bylaws of the corporation. No decrease shall take effect until the expiration of the term of a member, director, or trustee serving at the time the decrease is authorized. After an increase has been authorized, the board of directors or trustees of the corporation, by a majority vote of the members present, shall elect the addition...

...ectors or trustees of such institution determines by resolution that it is impracticable for such public officials to act as directors or trustees of such corporation, the directors or trustees, by amendment to the articles of incorporation, may provide for the election by its director or trustees of suitable persons to succeed such public officials as directors or trustees of such corporation. The terms of such succ...

...on of that nature may own land at multiple locations, and as many as six hundred forty acres owned at each location in accordance with this section are entitled to the exemptions specified in this section. Lands of cemetery associations not containing graves or not containing graves that are in use as such on the date a written notice, as provided in this section, is served upon the officers of a cemetery, shall be ...

...etery already in use on the same or opposite side of a public highway.

...ted for cemetery purposes or by a benevolent or religious society, within one hundred yards of a dwelling house, unless the owner of such dwelling house gives his consent, or unless the entire tract appropriated is a necessary addition to or enlargement of a cemetery already in use. The limit shall not be less than one hundred yards when it is sought to appropriate for cemetery purposes property adjoining a cemetery ...

...etery association owning a cemetery smaller than four acres and situated within one mile of the corporate limits of a municipal corporation.

...in the judgment of the officers of a cemetery association it is necessary to secure additional land for the purpose of making an entrance to its ground, or to improve an entrance already made, the officers may apply to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the cemetery is located for the appointment of appraisers. Upon such application being made, such board shall proceed in accordance with section...

...ngs for crematory facilities, funeral homes, and other buildings intended to produce income for the cemetery company or association. No part of the funds of a cemetery company or association, or of the proceeds of land sold by it, shall ever be divided among its stockholders or lot owners, and all its funds shall be used exclusively for the purposes of the company or association as specified in this section, or inve...

...tery company or association may adopt rules for disposing of and conveying burial lots; but any person not already the owner of a lot in the cemetery may purchase any unsold lot in it, and have such lot conveyed to him by the company or association upon tender of the usual price asked by it for such lots. Burial lots sold by a cemetery company or association shall be used for the sole purpose of interments, shall b...

... company or association may prescribe rules for the burial, re-interment, or disinterment of the product of a fetal death. (C) With regard to the product of a fetal death, on the request of the mother and in compliance with cemetery company or association rules, a cemetery company or association shall inter the product of the fetal death in accordance with one of the following: (1) In a single grave withi...

... to the cemetery and comply with any rules adopted under division (B) of section 1721.071 of the Revised Code. (B) If two surviving parents are indicated on the cemetery's burial documents for the product of a fetal death buried in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 1721.071 of the Revised Code and only one has given consent under division (A) of this section, prior to re-interment or disinterment, th...

... may sell and convey by deed in fee simple to a corporation organized not for profit under the laws of this state for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a public monument or memorial to any distinguished deceased person, such portion of the real estate of the association as is selected and agreed upon between it and such corporation, which is not used by the association, and which has not been disposed of by it ...

...y it to be made and to be recorded or filed in the office of the county recorder of the county in which they are situated, numbering the lots by regular consecutive numbers. It may inclose, improve, and adorn the grounds and avenues, erect buildings for its use, prescribe rules for inclosing and adorning lots and for erecting monuments in the cemetery, and prohibit any use, division, improvement, or adornment of a lo...