The Formation and Structure of the Maryland Religious Corporation
A Religious Corporation is a non-stock corporation. As such, the provisions of the Maryland general statutory corporate law will apply to it, unless the provisions of the statute clearly require otherwise. Maryland Code, Corporations & Associations Article § 5-201. A Religious Corporation is created under Title 5, Subtitle 3 of the Maryland Code, Corporations & Associations Article. This subtitle sets out the means of forming a religious corporation under a “congregational form of church government” contemplated by the statute. Mt. Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church of Fruitland, Inc. v. Board of Incorporators, 348 Md. 299 (1997). However, the subtitle…