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by a majority vote, | least 25% are present, | | trustees or managing board, however designated, change its name and | adopt a new one, a | to | of suchsuch, | certified by the clerk or secretary of the corporation, are | returned to the office of | with the Secretary of State to be recorded, the | name is changed | of the corporation. A fee of $5 must accompany the certificate. | | corporation, under its new name, has the same rights, powers and | | privileges, and is subject to the same duties, obligations and | | liabilities as before, and holds and is entitled to the same | | property and property rights as it held under its former name, and | | may sue or be sued by its new name, but no action brought against | it by its former name may be defeated on that account. A | certificate of the change of the name of such corporation must be | filed by the clerk or secretary of the corporation in the registry | of deeds in the county in which the corporation has its location | within 20 days after the proceedings of the meeting are returned to | the office of the Secretary of State. No fee is required by the | Secretary of State for the filing, but the registry of deeds must | receive for recording such certificate the fee of 50¢. This section | does not apply to corporations organized under or governed by Title | 13-B. |
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| | | Sec. 4. 13 MRSA §934, as amended by PL 1977, c. 592, §4, is further | | amended to read: |
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| | | In addition to any other method provided by law, a corporation | organized without capital stock | | specially chartered churches, but not other specially chartered | | corporations, may change the number of its officers, directors, | | trustees or members of its managing board, however designated, | | and change its purposes by altering, abridging or enlarging the | | same, and make any other changes in its certificate of | | organization as originally filed or subsequently amended that may | be desired, provided | an original certificate of organization. Suchshall | | must be made by vote of a majority of those members with voting | rights present at, or if the corporation shall have no | | have members with voting rights, then by a majority vote of its | whole board of directors, | designated, taken at any legal meeting, the | whichshall | The procedures established in the law relating to corporations | organized with capital stock as to the filing or |
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