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  • Article of Incorporation of Primitive Methodist Church in the United States of America
    (Pennsylvania)
    "1. The name of the Corporation is Primitive Methodist Church in the United States of America.

    2. The location and post office address of the Corporation in this Commonwealth is 115 North Mill Street, St. Clair, Pennsylvania 17970.

    3. The Corporation is incorporated under the Non-profit Corporation for purposes exclusively religious, charitable, literary and educational, no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation and which does not participate in, or intervene in, any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office, within the meaning of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and in furtherance thereto the Corporation shall, inter alia; support and promote public worship and benevolences according to the faith and usages of the Primitive Methodist Church in the United States of America as set forth in the Discipline of the Primitive Methodist Church in the United States of America.
         The Corporation does not contemplate pecuniary gain or profit, incidental or otherwise.

    4. The term for which the Corporation is to exist is perpetual.

    5. The Corporation is organized upon a nonstock basis.

    6. No part of the net earnings of the Corporation shall inure to the benefit of any of the Corporation's members, directors, officers, or other private individuals, except that the Corporation shall be expressly authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in Article 3. The private property of the members shall not be subject to the payment of corporate debts to any extent whatever.

    7. Upon the dissolution of the Corporation, the Board of Directors shall, after paying or making provision for the payment of all the liabilities of the Corporation, dispose of all of the assets of the Corporation exclusively for the purposes of the Corporation in such manner, or to such organization or organizations organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, religious, or scientific purposes as shall at the time qualify as an exempt organization or organizations under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law), as the Board of Directors shall determine. Any such assets not so disposed of, shall be disposed of by the Court of Common Pleas having jurisdiction of the county in which the principal office of the Corporation is then located, exclusively for such purposes or to such organization or organizations, as said Court shall determine, which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes."

    Articles of Incorporation
    (Rhode Island)

    "1. The name of the Corporation is Primitive Methodist Church in the United States of America.

    2. The location of the Corporation in this State is Providence, Rhode Island.

    3. The Corporation is incorporated under the Non-Business Corporation Law of the State of Rhode Island for the following purposes:
         The Corporation shall be organized and operated as a non-business corporation for purposes exclusively religious, charitable, literary and educational, no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation and which does not participate in, or intervene in, any political campaign on behalf of any candidate for public office, within the meaning of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, and in furtherance thereto the Corporation shall, inter alia; support and promote public worship and benevolences according to the faith and usages of the Primitive Methodist Church in the United States of America as set forth in the Discipline of the Primitive Methodist Church in the United States of America.
         The Corporation does not contemplate pecuniary gain or profit, incidental or otherwise.

    4. The term for which the Corporation is to exist is perpetual.

    5. The Corporation is organized upon a nonstock basis.

    6. No part of the net earnings of the Corporation shall inure to the benefit of any of the Corporation's members, directors, officers, or other private individuals, except that the Corporation shall be expressly authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes set forth in Article 3. The private property of the members shall not be subject to the payment of corporate debts to any extent whatever.

    7. Upon the dissolution of the Corporation, the Board of Directors shall, after paying or making provision for the payment of all the liabilities of the Corporation, dispose of all of the assets of the Corporation exclusively for the purposes of the Corporation in such manner, or to such organization or organizations organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, religious, or scientific purposes as shall at the time qualify as an exempt organization or organizations under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (or the corresponding provision of any future United States Internal Revenue Law), as the Board of Directors shall determine. Any such assets not so disposed of, shall be disposed of by the Court of Common Pleas having jurisdiction of the county in which the principal office of the Corporation is then located, exclusively for such purposes or to such organization or organizations, as said Court shall determine, which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes."

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