Any incorporated convention or association, heretofore organized under any general or special law or that may be hereafter under general laws organized, shall not lose its corporate existence by reason of failure to elect or appoint trustees or boards of directors, and the charter of all the conventions and associations as were functioning and in operation on February 14, 1923, are confirmed, whether or not the organization may have been conducted in strict accordance with its charter, and all charters of the corporations legally existing on February 14, 1923, are hereby ratified and confirmed.