E-17 - Roman Catholic Bishops Act

Section 10 Disposition versions

1999-10-22

10. For the attainment of its objects, the legal person shall have, in particular, the following powers:

(a)  to have a seal and alter it at will;

(b)  to appear before the courts;

(c)  to acquire, establish, maintain, administer and manage any work or undertaking related to its objects;

(d)  to acquire, establish, own, maintain, administer and manage residences for clergy, seminaries, colleges, teaching or educational institutions, hospital centres, asylums, refuges, recreational centres, libraries and, notwithstanding any incompatible legislative provision, churches, chapels, cemeteries, parsonages, public halls and playgrounds;

(e)  to bind itself and bind others towards it in any legal manner whatsoever;

(f)  to borrow money on its credit by any method recognized by the law, and especially by bills of exchange, notes or other negotiable instruments;

(g)  to hypothecate its movable or immovable property or encumber it with another charge to secure payment of its loans or the performance of its obligations;

(h)  to issue bonds or other title-deeds or securities and sell, exchange or hypothecate the same;

(i)  (paragraph repealed);

(j)  to invest its funds in any manner deemed suitable, either directly in its own name or indirectly in the name of trustees;

(k)  to support any person pursuing any object similar to one of its own, transfer to such person any property whatsoever, gratuitously or not, make loans to the same and secure or guarantee his obligations or engagements;

(l)  to accept any gift, legacy or other liberality;

(m)  to acquire, possess, administer and alienate property by all legal methods and by any title whatsoever;

(n)  to acquire by expropriation, with the previous authorization of the Government and upon such conditions as it shall determine, any property deemed necessary for the pursuit of its objects, and especially any immovable for the site of a church, chapel, parsonage, cemetery or public hall;

(o)  to acquire, possess and exercise outside the territory of Québec the rights and powers recognized or conferred upon it by the laws in force in any other province or country;

(p)  delegate in writing to any vicar-general, to any vicar deputed to vicariates or apostolic prefectures, or to the administrator replacing the bishop during his absence, the exercise of one or more of the powers mentioned in this section, save and except the one provided for by paragraph n.

R. S. 1964, c. 304, s. 10; 1971, c. 48, s. 161; 1992, c. 57, s. 573; 1999, c. 40, s. 127.

1994-01-01

10. For the attainment of its objects, the corporation shall have the powers, rights and privileges of ordinary corporations, and especially the following:

(a)  to have a seal and alter it at will;

(b)  to appear before the courts;

(c)  to acquire, establish, maintain, administer and manage any work or undertaking related to its objects;

(d)  to acquire, establish, own, maintain, administer and manage residences for clergy, seminaries, colleges, teaching or educational institutions, hospital centres, asylums, refuges, recreational centres, libraries and, notwithstanding any incompatible legislative provision, churches, chapels, cemeteries, parsonages, public halls and playgrounds;

(e)  to bind itself and bind others towards it in any legal manner whatsoever;

(f)  to borrow money on its credit by any method recognized by the law, and especially by bills of exchange, notes or other negotiable instruments;

(g)  to hypothecate its movable or immovable property or encumber it with another charge to secure payment of its loans or the performance of its obligations;

(h)  to issue bonds or other title-deeds or securities and sell, exchange or hypothecate the same;

(i)  (paragraph repealed);

(j)  to invest its funds in any manner deemed suitable, either directly in its own name or indirectly in the name of trustees;

(k)  to support any person pursuing any object similar to one of its own, transfer to such person any property whatsoever, gratuitously or not, make loans to the same and secure or guarantee his obligations or engagements;

(l)  to accept any gift, legacy or other liberality;

(m)  to acquire, possess, administer and alienate all movable and immovable property by all legal methods and by any title whatsoever;

(n)  to acquire by expropriation, with the previous authorization of the Government and upon such conditions as it shall determine, any property deemed necessary for the pursuit of its objects, and especially any immovable for the site of a church, chapel, parsonage, cemetery or public hall;

(o)  to acquire, possess and exercise outside the territory of Québec the rights and powers recognized or conferred upon it by the laws in force in any other province or country;

(p)  delegate in writing to any vicar-general, to any vicar deputed to vicariates or apostolic prefectures, or to the administrator replacing the bishop during his absence, the exercise of one or more of the powers mentioned in this section, save and except the one provided for by paragraph n.

R. S. 1964, c. 304, s. 10; 1971, c. 48, s. 161; 1992, c. 57, s. 573.

1977-12-31

10. For the attainment of its objects, the corporation shall have the powers, rights and privileges of ordinary corporations, and especially the following:

(a)  to have a seal and alter it at will;

(b)  to appear before the courts;

(c)  to acquire, establish, maintain, administer and manage any work or undertaking related to its objects;

(d)  to acquire, establish, own, maintain, administer and manage residences for clergy, seminaries, colleges, teaching or educational institutions, hospital centres, asylums, refuges, recreational centres, libraries and, notwithstanding any incompatible legislative provision, churches, chapels, cemeteries, parsonages, public halls and playgrounds;

(e)  to bind itself and bind others towards it in any legal manner whatsoever;

(f)  to borrow money on its credit by any method recognized by the law, and especially by bills of exchange, notes or other negotiable instruments;

(g)  to hypothecate or pledge its immoveables, give in security or otherwise encumber its moveable property in any way whatsoever to secure the payment of its loans or the carrying out of its obligations;

(h)  to issue bonds or other title-deeds or securities and sell, exchange, mortgage or pledge the same;

(i)  notwithstanding the provisions of the Civil Code, to hypothecate, secure or pledge, while at the same time retaining the possession of the same, moveable and immoveable property, present or future, in order to secure the payment of the bonds or securities issued, give a part only of such guarantees for the same objects, and constitute such hypothec, mortgage or pledge by deed of trust in accordance with the Special Corporate Powers Act (chapter P-16) or any other act that may replace the latter;

(j)  to invest its funds in any manner deemed suitable, either directly in its own name or indirectly in the name of trustees;

(k)  to support any person pursuing any object similar to one of its own, transfer to such person any property whatsoever, gratuitously or not, make loans to the same and secure or guarantee his obligations or engagements;

(l)  to accept any gift, legacy or other liberality;

(m)  to acquire, possess, administer and alienate all moveable and immoveable property by all legal methods and by any title whatsoever;

(n)  to acquire by expropriation, with the previous authorization of the Government and upon such conditions as it shall determine, any property deemed necessary for the pursuit of its objects, and especially any immoveable for the site of a church, chapel, parsonage, cemetery or public hall;

(o)  to acquire, possess and exercise outside the territory of Québec the rights and powers recognized or conferred upon it by the laws in force in any other province or country;

(p)  delegate in writing to any vicar-general, to any vicar deputed to vicariates or apostolic prefectures, or to the administrator replacing the bishop during his absence, the exercise of one or more of the powers mentioned in this section, save and except the one provided for by paragraph n.

R. S. 1964, c. 304, s. 10; 1971, c. 48, s. 161.