Ohio Code § 1713.28

§ 1713.28.

An association incorporated for the purpose of receiving gifts, devises, or trust

funds to erect, establish, or maintain an academy in any department of fine arts,

a gallery for the exhibition of paintings, sculpture, or works of art, a museum of

natural or other curiosities or specimens of art or nature promotive of knowledge,

a law or other library, courses of lectures upon science, art, philosophy, natural

history, or law, and to open them to the public on reasonable terms, an industrial

training school or a mechanics' institute for advancing the best interest of mechanics,

manufacturers, and artisans by the more general diffusion of useful knowledge in those

classes of the community, or homes for indigent and aged persons and unmarried persons,

whose directors or trustees may be of either sex, may prescribe in its articles of

incorporation the tenure of office of the trustees or directors, the mode of appointing

or electing successors, the administration and management of the property, trust,

and other funds of the corporation, and such other organic rules as are deemed expedient

or acceptable to donors, which shall be the permanent organic law of the corporation. By certificate duly acknowledged by the trustees or directors and filed in the office

of the secretary of state, such association may add to the original objects and purposes

thereof any of the objects and purposes mentioned in this section and not provided

for by the articles of incorporation.