Any incorporated society authorized to transact business in this state on January 1, 1958, may exercise all the rights, powers and privileges prescribed in sections 38a-595 to 38a-626, inclusive, 38a-631 to 38a-640, inclusive, and 38a-800 and in its charter or articles of incorporation as far as consistent with said sections. A domestic society shall not be required to reincorporate.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 38a-599
(1949 Rev., S. 6232; 1957, P.A. 448, S. 5.)