Ohio Code § 1715.10

§ 1715.10.

Any two or more churches, congregations, or religious societies, whether incorporated

or unincorporated, which are self-governing organizations and situated in the same

township or municipal corporation, may unite their memberships and properties and

continue their identity and common usages or polity in a consolidated corporation

formed by an agreement in writing made, acknowledged, and signed by their respective

trustees and filed in the office of the secretary of state.  Such agreement shall set forth the name of the consolidated corporation and the

proceedings by which the constituent organizations authorized their trustees so to

act, shall designate the time and place at which the united membership shall first

meet, and shall provide for the adoption of regulations consistent with such common

usages or polity and for the appointment of officers pursuant to such regulations.  Upon the filing of such agreement the existence of each constituent organization

is merged into that of the consolidated corporation, which shall thereafter be a single

religious corporation not for profit, the members, officers, and conduct of which

shall be as provided in such regulations.  Such consolidated corporation shall from its inception be vested with all the rights

and properties, and charged with all the obligations and duties, of such constituent

organizations;  and any right or interest in respect to any past or future devise,

bequest, conditional gift, trust, or property or fund restricted to particular uses,

when vested in or claimed by such consolidated corporation as a result of such merger,

shall belong to it as a continuation without interruption of the existence and identity

of the constituent organization originally named as taker or beneficiary.