Bill Text: CT SB01118 | 2015 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Congregation Mishkan Israel.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-19 - Signed by the Governor [SB01118 Detail]

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General Assembly

 

Raised Bill No. 1118

January Session, 2015

 

LCO No. 5578

 

*05578_______JUD*

Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY

 

Introduced by:

 

(JUD)

 

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CONGREGATION MISHKAN ISRAEL.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 1 of number 91 of the special acts of 1947 is amended to read as follows (Effective from passage):

Max Livingston, Charles A. Cahn, Israel J. Hoffman, Bernard P. Kopkind, Bernhard A. Rogowski, Maurice G. Cornell, Julius M. Kraft, Maurice B. Ullman, Harold H. Hahn, Herbert C. Levy, Herman M. Levy, Arthur M. Ross, Jr., Isadore L. Wexler, Lester L. Hershman, Herbert P. Karlsruher, James D. Kauffman, Max B. Leichter, Esther Goldstein, S. Michael Gompertz, Samuel I. Hershman and Stanley H. Lichenstein, with such other persons as may associate with them for the purposes and objects hereinafter specified, are constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of The Congregation Mishkan Israel, to be located in the [city of] cities of Hamden and New Haven, for purpose of establishing and maintaining a place of worship for its congregants, a residence for its ministerial staff, a cemetery to be used exclusively by people of the Jewish faith, a place of assembly and a religious school building or buildings for the religious education of members of the Jewish faith.

Sec. 2. Section 3 of number 91 of the special acts of 1947 is amended to read as follows (Effective from passage):

Said corporation may purchase, hold, sell, mortgage, lease, or otherwise encumber any real or personal property. [, provided it shall not hold real property the value of which shall exceed seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.]

Sec. 3. Section 5 of number 91 of the special acts of 1947 is amended to read as follows (Effective from passage):

The real property that may hereafter be acquired or owned by said corporation and used for the corporation's purposes shall be exempt from taxation; also its bonds, mortgages or fund invested now or hereafter. [, the income from which shall not exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars per annum.] Such personal property shall be held for the uses of said corporation, and the revenue derived therefrom shall be used exclusively for said corporation's purposes and shall be exempt from taxation.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:

Section 1

from passage

Number 91 of the special acts of 1947, Sec. 1

Sec. 2

from passage

Number 91 of the special acts of 1947, Sec. 3

Sec. 3

from passage

Number 91 of the special acts of 1947, Sec. 5

Statement of Purpose:

To amend the articles of incorporation governing The Congregation Mishkan Israel.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]

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