NY Ben Ord L § 9 (2021)
2021 New York Laws BVO - Benevolent Orders Article 2 - General Provisions 9 - Powers of Joint Corporations.

§ 9. Powers  of  joint corporations. Such corporation may acquire real   property in the town, village or city in which such hall,  home,  temple   or building is or is to be located, and erect such building or buildings   thereupon  for the uses and purposes of the corporation, as the trustees   may deem necessary, or repair, rebuild or reconstruct  any  building  or   buildings  that  may  be  thereupon  and furnish and complete such rooms   therein as may appear necessary for the use of such bodies  or  for  any   other purpose for which the corporation is formed; and may rent to other   persons  any  portion  of such building or real property for business or   other purposes. Until such real  property  shall  be  acquired  or  such   building  erected  or  made  ready for use, the corporation may rent and   sublet such rooms or apartments in such town, village or city as may  be   suitable  or  convenient  for  the  use  of the bodies mentioned in such   certificate, or of such other bodies as may desire to use them, and  the   board  of trustees may determine the terms and conditions on which rooms   and apartments in such building or buildings, when erected, or which may   be leased, shall be used and occupied. Before such corporation  composed   of not more than thirty bodies shall purchase or sell any real property,   or  erect  or  repair any building or buildings thereupon, and before it   shall purchase any building or part of a  building  for  the  use  of  a   corporation, it shall submit to the bodies constituting the corporation,   the proposition to make such sale or purchase, or to erect or repair any   such building or buildings, or to rent any building or part thereof, for   the  use  of  the  corporation; and unless such proposition receives the   approval of two-thirds of the bodies constituting the corporation,  such   proposition  shall  not  be  carried  into  effect.  The evidence of the   approval of such proposition by any such body shall be a certificate  to   that  effect  signed by the presiding officer and secretary of the body,   or the  officers  discharging  duties  corresponding  to  those  of  the   presiding  officer and secretary, under the seal of such body. But where   land is purchased for the purpose of erecting a  hall,  home  or  temple   thereon,  the  buildings upon such land at the time of such purchase may   be sold by the trustees without such consent. The powers of the board of   trustees of every corporation created hereunder  and  composed  of  more   than  thirty  bodies,  respecting sales, purchases and repairs, shall be   fixed by the by-laws adopted  by  the  representatives  of  the  various   bodies  composing  such  corporation,  or  shall  be  determined by such   representatives when assembled  in  annual  session.  Every  corporation   created  hereunder shall have power to enforce, at law or in equity, any   legal contract which it may make with any of  the  bodies  composing  it   respecting  the  care  and maintenance of members or other dependents of   such body, the same as if such body or bodies were not  members  of  the   corporation.  Any corporation created hereunder shall have power to take   and hold real and personal estate by purchase, gift, devise  or  bequest   subject  to  the  provisions  of law relating to devises and bequests by   last will and testament or otherwise.