February 17, 2015, Introduced by Rep. Callton and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1931 PA 327, entitled
"An act to provide for the organization, regulation and
classification of corporations; to provide their rights, powers and
immunities; to prescribe the conditions on which corporations may
exercise their powers; to provide for the inclusion of certain
existing corporations within the provisions of this act; to
prescribe the terms and conditions upon which foreign corporations
may be admitted to do business within this state; to require
certain annual reports to be filed by corporations; to prescribe
penalties for the violations of the provisions of this act; and to
repeal certain acts and parts of acts relating to corporations,"
by amending section 157 (MCL 450.157).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
157. (1) Same; hospitals, asylums. In all cases where
lands,
or any other property, amounting in value to 5,000 dollars
$5,000.00
or upwards, more, have
been or shall hereafter be are
given, granted, devised, or bequeathed to 3 or more trustees for
the purpose of founding or endowing a hospital or other charitable
asylum for the care or relief of indigent or other sick or infirm
or
aged persons, or the care of minor orphans or crippled children
and youth with special health care needs or for the care and
protection
of unfortunate women, or any number of such those
purposes,
such the trustees may incorporate under this act as a
trustee
corporation. Unless restricted by the trust instrument, in
respect
thereto such the trustees may unite in such that
incorporation with other persons contributing to the maintenance of
such
the hospital or asylum, and all such of those other
persons
shall
become members of such the
corporation upon making such the
contribution as may be fixed and determined in the articles or by-
laws
of the corporation. : Provided, That However, any 3 or more
persons
may incorporate for any such charitable purpose described
in this subsection as a trustee corporation, where the hospital,
home,
asylum, or other institution to be founded by such the
corporation is to be constructed, equipped, and maintained
principally by donations not made under any trust deed or other
instrument
in writing declaring the uses and purposes to which such
the
property shall be devoted, and every
such that corporation
shall have authority to fix and prescribe the terms and conditions
of
membership therein.in the
corporation.
(2) The
trustees of such a trustee corporation described in
subsection (1), or a majority of them, are hereby authorized and
empowered to indenture or apprentice to responsible persons, any
destitute
or foundling children now, or which may be hereafter, in
who
now or later become under the charge or
care of such that
corporation,
until such those children shall respectively become of
lawful
age, and to make such that
indenture in each case as binding
and
effective in all respects as if said the trustees were the
lawful
parents or guardians of said those
children. : Provided,
That
said However, the trustees shall have power to withdraw such a
child
from any person to whom which
he or she may be is indentured,
when
in their opinion the interests of the child may require it.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.