Ohio Code § 1719.01
Ohio Code § 1719.01. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 1719.01.
When any person by deed or will grants or devises property and money, or either, to
trustees in perpetuity, in trust, stipulating that the principal and income, or any
part of the principal and income thereof, is to be used and applied by said trustees
and their successors in office for educational, charitable, or benevolent purposes,
to be conducted in this state, and when such deed or will provides that the trustees
shall become a body corporate to hold and invest said property and money and to administer
said trust, said trustees upon accepting said trust shall file with the secretary
of state articles of incorporation as provided by section 1702.04 of the Revised Code , together with a certified copy of such deed or will, and thereupon said trustees
and their successors in office shall become a corporation not for profit to administer
said trust, and said trustees shall forthwith become the board of trustees of such
corporation for such term as is prescribed by such deed or will or by the code of
regulations of such corporation. The members of the board of trustees and their successors, during their respective
terms of office, shall be the members of the corporation.
Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 1719.01
- Jurisdiction: Ohio
- Code: Ohio Revised Code
- Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)
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