2021Bylaws

Articles of Incorporation (Iowa)

(e) To create and maintain a charitable and educational fund, a representative fund, a library fund, a Shriners International fund, a fund for the purchase, erection, operation and maintenance of Shriners Hospitals for Children, and other benevolences, and any other fund or trust necessary or convenient in carrying out any of the purposes, benev- olences or charities now established, or which may be hereafter autho- rized by Shriners International. (f) To accept and receive gifts, devises, bequests, donations, annuities and endowments of real and personal property, and to use, hold and enjoy the same, both as to principal and income, and invest and reinvest the same, or any part thereof, for the furtherance of any of the objects, interests or purposes of the corporation as hereinbefore stated, or such as may hereafter be authorized. (g) To have the exclusive right to and use of the name Shriners International, together with the emblems, costumes, regalia, characteris- tic insignia and jewels of the Order, heretofore or hereafter adopted by Shriners International. (h) To use and exercise all of the powers, rights and privi- leges incidental to fraternal and benevolent corporations organized for purposes other than pecuniary profit, and which are usually exercised by the supreme or governing bodies of fraternal or benevolent organiza- tions operating as the representatives of a system of fraternal lodges or temples. (i) The powers specified and clauses contained in the forego- ing paragraphs shall in no wise limit or restrict, by reference to or infer- ence from, the terms of any other clause of any other paragraph in these articles, but the powers specified in each of the several clauses of the paragraphs shall be regarded as independent powers and purposes. ARTICLE 6 Members §6.1 Members. The members (representatives) of this cor- poration are its present members (representatives) and such additional members (representatives) as may be elected in accordance with the bylaws of this corporation; and their duties and responsibilities shall be designated in such bylaws.

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