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NY Rel Corps L § 2-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 1 - Short Title and Definitions 2-A - Application.

§  2-a.  Application.  This  chapter  applies (a) to every corporation   heretofore or hereafter formed under this  chapter,  and  (b)  to  every   corporation  formed under any other statute or special act of this state   which would, if it were to be formed currently under the  laws  of  this   state, be formed under this chapter, and (c) to every corporation formed   under  laws other than the statutes of this state which is authorized to   conduct or which conducts activities in this state and which  would,  if   it  were  to be formed currently under the laws of this state, be formed   under this chapter.
NY Rel Corps L § 3 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 3 - Filing and Recording Certificates of Incorporation of Religious Corporations.

§  3.  Filing and recording certificates of incorporation of religious   corporations.  The  certificate  of   incorporation   of   a   religious   corporation shall be acknowledged or proved before an officer authorized   to  take  the  acknowledgment  or  proof of deeds or conveyances of real   estate, to be recorded in the county in which the  principal  office  or   place  of  worship of said corporation is or is intended to be situated,   and shall be filed and recorded in the  office  of  the  clerk  of  said   county.  If  there  is not, or is not intended to be, any such office or   place of worship, the certificate shall be filed  and  recorded  in  the   office  of the secretary of state. Where a religious corporation removes   to another county within the state a duplicate copy of  its  certificate   of  incorporation  together with a statement of such removal duly signed   and acknowledged by the directors and officers of said  corporation  may   be  filed  in  the  office  of  the clerk of said county to which it has   removed.The recording of any certificate of a religious corporation  organized   under  provisions  of  "An  act  to  provide  for  the  incorporation of   religious societies," passed April fifth, eighteen hundred and thirteen,   and of the acts amending the same, in the office of a clerk of a  county   prior  to  the  passage  of  chapter thirty-five of the laws of eighteen   hundred and ninety-seven, instead of in the office of  the  register  of   such  county,  shall  be  regarded  and  construed and such recording is   hereby declared to be of the same validity, force and  effect  as  would   have  been  the  recording of such certificate in the proper office. And   every act, deed, matter and  thing  done  or  performed  by  every  such   religious  society or corporation since the recording of its certificate   in the office of said county clerk is  hereby  ratified,  confirmed  and   declared  to  be as valid in all respects as if the said certificate had   been properly and appropriately recorded in the office of  the  register   of  the  county  in  which  said  religious  society  or corporation was   organized; but this section shall not  affect  any  suit  or  proceeding   already commenced arising out of such original mistake.
NY Rel Corps L § 4 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 4 - Property of Unincorporated Society Transferred by Its Incorporation.

§   4.   Property   of   unincorporated  society  transferred  by  its   incorporation. All the temporalities and property of  an  unincorporated   church, or of any unincorporated religious society, body, association or   congregation,   shall,   on   the   incorporation  thereof,  become  the   temporalities  and  property   of   such   corporation,   whether   such   temporalities  or property be given, granted or devised directly to such   unincorporated church, society, body, association or congregation, or to   any other person for the use or benefit thereof.
NY Rel Corps L § 4-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 4-A - Age Qualifications of Voters.

§ 4-a. Age qualifications of voters. To vote at a corporate meeting of   a   corporation  to  which  this  chapter  applies,  persons,  otherwise   qualified  to  vote,  shall  be  of  full  age  unless   (1)   the   age   qualifications for voting at corporate meetings are fixed by or pursuant   to  an  applicable  provision in articles three through nineteen of this   chapter, or (2) in the absence of such  provision,  the  certificate  of   incorporation  or  a  by-law  adopted by the members of such corporation   specifies an age, less than full age  but  not  less  than  the  age  of   sixteen years, at which persons otherwise qualified to vote at corporate   meetings, shall be entitled to vote for all purposes or as to particular   types or classes of matters to be acted on at such meetings.
NY Rel Corps L § 5-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 5-A - Investment of Funds.

§  5-a.  Investment  of  funds.  Subject  to the discipline, rules and   usages of the corporation and of the ecclesiastical governing  body,  if   any,  to which the corporation is subject and subject to the limitations   and conditions contained in any gift, devise or bequest, and subject  to   any applicable provisions of law with respect to the investment of funds   for the perpetual care and maintenance of cemetery lots, the trustees of   every  religious  corporation,  created by or under a general or special   law, may invest the  funds  of  such  corporation  in  such  securities,   investments  or  other  property,  real  or  personal, located within or   without the state of New York, as to them shall seem  advisable  without   being restricted to those classes of securities which are lawful for the   investment  of trust funds under the laws of this state. The trustees of   an incorporated Roman Catholic church, or of a Ruthenian Greek  Catholic   church,  shall  not  invest  its  funds as in this sub-division provided   without the consent of the archbishop or bishop of the diocese to  which   such  church  belongs  or  in case of their absence or inability to act,   without the consent of  the  vicar  general  or  administrator  of  such   diocese.
NY Rel Corps L § 5-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 5-B - .

§  5-b.  Any  investment  of  the  funds  of any religious corporation   heretofore made by the trustees thereof shall not be deemed to have been   restricted to securities which are lawful for the  investment  of  trust   funds.
NY Rel Corps L § 6 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 6 - Acquisition of Property by Religious Corporations for Branch Institutions; Establishment, Maintenance and Management Thereof.

§  6.  Acquisition  of  property  by religious corporations for branch   institutions; establishment, maintenance  and  management  thereof.  Any   religious  corporation may acquire property for associate houses, church   buildings,  chapels,  mission-houses,  school-houses   for   Sunday   or   parochial  schools, or dispensaries of medicine for its ministers, their   wives, husbands and dependent children and for the poor, or property for   the residence of its ministers,  their  wives,  husbands  and  dependent   children,  teachers or employees, or property for a home for the aged or   nursery school or day care center. The persons attending public  worship   in  any  such associate house, mission-house, church building, or chapel   connected therewith shall not by  reason  thereof  have  any  rights  as   members  of  the  parent corporation. The persons statedly worshiping in   any such house, mission-house, church building or chapel may,  with  the   consent   of   the  trustees  of  such  corporation,  become  separately   incorporated as a church, and the parent corporation may,  in  pursuance   of  the provisions of law regulating the disposition of real property by   religious corporations, rent or convey to the new corporation,  with  or   without  consideration,  any  such  associate  house,  church  building,   chapel, mission-house, school-house or dispensary and the lot  connected   therewith,  subject  to  such  regulations as the trustees of the parent   corporation may make. Any religious  corporation  shall  have  power  to   establish,  maintain  and  manage by its trustees or other officers as a   part of its religious purpose a home for the aged or nursery  school  or   day  care center, and may take and hold by conveyance, donation, bequest   or devise real and personal property for such purpose, and may  purchase   and may erect suitable buildings therefor. Any such corporation may take   and  hold  any  grant,  donation,  bequest or devise of real or personal   property heretofore or hereafter made upon trust, and apply the same, or   the income thereof,  under  the  direction  of  its  trustees  or  other   officers, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and managing such   a  home,  school or center and for the erection, preservation, repair or   extension of any building or buildings for such purpose.
NY Rel Corps L § 7-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 7-A - Deeds for Cemetery Purposes; Presumption.

§  7-a.  Deeds  for  cemetery  purposes;  presumption.  Every  deed of   conveyance of real property to a religious corporation used for cemetery   purposes, whether heretofore or hereafter recorded, shall be presumptive   evidence that the conveyance vested in the grantee and its successors  a   fee  simple  absolute  in the premises therein described, subject to the   limitations and conditions therein prescribed, and that all  proceedings   prior  thereto,  including  the  consent of the court, if required, were   regular and in accordance  with  all  the  provisions  of  law  relating   thereto.  At  the  expiration of twenty years from the date of record of   any such conveyance, heretofore or hereafter recorded, such  presumption   shall be conclusive.
NY Rel Corps L § 8 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 8 - Lot Owners' Rights.

§  8.  Lot  owners'  rights.  Lots  in  such  cemeteries shall be held   indivisible, and upon the decease of a proprietor of such lot the  title   thereto shall descend to his heirs-at-law or devisees, subject, however,   to  the  following  limitations and conditions: If he leaves a widow and   children, they shall have in common the possession, care and control  of   such  lot  during  her  life.  If he leaves a widow and no children, she   shall have the possession, care and control of such lot during her life.   If he leaves children and no widow, they, or the survivor of them, shall   in common have the possession, care and control of such lot  during  the   life  of  the survivor of them. The parties having such possession, care   and control of such lot during the term thereof, may  erect  a  monument   and make other permanent improvements thereon.  The widow shall have the   right  of  interment, for her own body in such lot, or in a tomb in such   lot and a right to have her body remain permanently interred or entombed   therein, except that her body may be removed  therefrom  to  some  other   family  lot or tomb with the consent of her heirs. At any time when more   than one person is entitled to the possession, care or control  of  such   lot,  the  persons so entitled thereto shall designate in writing to the   religious corporation which of their number shall represent the lot, and   on their failure to designate, the board of trustees or directors of the   corporation shall enter of record which of said parties shall  represent   the lot, while such failure continues. The widow may at any time release   her  right  in such lot, but no conveyance or devise by any other person   shall deprive her of such right.
NY Rel Corps L § 10 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 10 - Acquisition of Property by Two or More Religious Corporations for a Common Parsonage.

§  10.  Acquisition  of property by two or more religious corporations   for a common parsonage.  Two or more religious corporations may  acquire   such  real  property as may be necessary for use as a parsonage, and the   right, title and interest  of  each  corporation  therein  shall  be  in   proportion  to  its  contribution  to  the  cost  of  such property. The   trustees of each corporation shall, from time to time,  appoint  one  of   their  number to be a trustee of such common parsonage property, to hold   office during the pleasure of  the  appointing  trustees  or  until  his   successor  be  appointed.  The trustees so appointed shall have the care   and management of such property and may make such improvements thereupon   as they deem necessary, and determine the proportion of the  expense  of   the  maintenance  thereof  which  each corporation shall bear. If at any   time either of such corporations acquires or desires to acquire for  its   own  exclusive  use  as  a  parsonage  other  real  property, it may, in   pursuance of the provisions of law, relating to the disposition of  real   property by religious corporations, sell and convey its interest in such   common  parsonage  property to any one or more of the other corporations   having an interest therein.
NY Rel Corps L § 11 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 11 - Correction and Confirmation of Conveyances to Religious Corporations.

§   11.  Correction  and  confirmation  of  conveyances  to  religious   corporations.   If,  in  a  conveyance  of  real  property,  or  in  any   instrument  intended to operate as such, heretofore or hereafter made to   a religious corporation, its corporate name is  not  stated  or  is  not   correctly  stated,  but  such  conveyance  or  instrument  indicates the   intention of the  grantor  therein  to  convey  such  property  to  such   corporation,  and  such  corporation  has  entered  into  possession and   occupation of such property, any officer of the  corporation  authorized   so  to do by its trustees may record in the office where such conveyance   or instrument is recorded a statement, signed and acknowledged by him or   proved, setting forth the date of such  conveyance  or  instrument,  the   date  of  record  and the number and page of the book of record thereof,   the name of the grantor, a  description  of  the  property  conveyed  or   intended  to  be  conveyed, the name of the grantee as expressed in such   conveyance or instrument, the correct name of such corporation, the fact   of authorization by the trustees of the corporation, to make and  record   such  statement,  and  that the grantor in such conveyance or instrument   intended thereby to convey such property to such corporation as the said   officer verily believes, with the reason for such belief. Such statement   so signed and acknowledged or proved shall be recorded with the  records   of deeds in such office, and indexed as a deed from the grantee as named   in  such  instrument  or  in  such  conveyance  to such corporation. The   register or clerk, as the case may be, shall note the recording of  such   statement  on  the  margin of the record of such conveyance, and for his   services shall be entitled to receive the  fees  allowed  for  recording   deeds.  Such  statement  so  recorded shall be presumptive evidence that   such matters therein stated are true, and that such corporation was  the   grantee  in  the  original  instrument  or  conveyance.  All conveyances   heretofore made, or  by  any  instrument  intended  to  be  made,  to  a   religious  corporation  of real property appropriated to the use of such   corporation, or entitled to be so appropriated, are hereby confirmed and   declared valid and effectual, notwithstanding any defect in the form  of   the conveyance or the description of the grantee therein.
NY Rel Corps L § 14 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 14 - Judicial Investigation of Amount of Property of Religious Corporations.

§  14.  Judicial  investigation  of  amount  of  property of religious   corporations.  The supreme court at a special term, held in the judicial   district in which the principal place of worship or of holding corporate   meetings of a  religious  corporation  is  situated,  may  require  such   corporation  to  make and file an inventory of its property, verified by   its trustees or a majority of them, on the written  application  of  the   attorney-general,  stating  that,  from his knowledge, or on information   and belief, the value of the property held by such  corporation  exceeds   the  amount  authorized by law. On presentation of such application, the   court shall order that a notice of at least eight days, together with  a   copy of the application, be served upon the trustees of the corporation,   requiring  them  to show cause at a time and place therein specified why   they should not make and file such inventory and  account.  If,  on  the   hearing of such application, no good cause is shown to the contrary, the   court may make an order requiring such inventory or account to be filed,   and  may  also  proceed to take and state the amount of property held by   the corporation, and may appoint a referee for that  purpose;  and  when   such  account  is  taken  and  stated,  after  hearing  all  the parties   appearing on the application, the court may enter an  order  determining   the amount of property so held by the corporation and its annual income,   from which order an appeal may be taken by any party aggrieved as from a   judgment  of the supreme court in an action tried therein before a court   without a jury. No corporation shall be required to make and  file  more   than  one  inventory  and  account  in any one year, or to make a second   account and inventory while proceedings are pending for the statement of   an account under this section.
NY Rel Corps L § 17 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 17 - Property of Extinct Free Baptist Churches.

§  17.  Property  of  extinct Free Baptist churches. The property both   real and personal, belonging to or held in trust for  any  Free  Baptist   church,  or  Free  Baptist religious society organized under the laws of   the state of New York, that has become, or shall become  extinct,  shall   vest  in  and  become  the  property of the Central association existing   under the laws of the state of New York, and its successors and assigns;   provided that this section shall not affect the  reversionary  interests   of  any  person  in such property, nor the interests of any incorporated   association; and any Free  Baptist  church  or  Free  Baptist  religious   society  becoming  extinct  or about to disband or disorganize may, by a   vote of two-thirds of its members  present  and  voting  therefor  at  a   meeting  regularly  called  for that purpose assign, transfer, grant and   convey all its temporalities to and place the same in the possession  of   the  Central  association  existing  under  the laws of the state of New   York.A Free Baptist church or Free  Baptist  religious  society  which  has   failed  for  two  consecutive  years  next  prior  thereto  to  maintain   religious services according to the custom and usages  of  Free  Baptist   churches,  or  has less than thirteen resident attending members, paying   annual pew rental or making annual contributions  towards  its  support,   may  be declared extinct in the following manner, viz.: Upon such notice   as the court may prescribe,  and  upon  application  made  by  petition,   stating  fully  the  facts  in the case, and on evidence being furnished   that the said Free Baptist church or Free Baptist religious society  has   ceased to hold religious services in and use said property for religious   worship or service for a term of two years previous to such application,   the supreme court, at a term thereof held in the judicial district where   such  property  is situated, may grant an order declaring such church or   society extinct, and thereon direct that all its temporalities shall  be   transferred  to,  and  thereupon  shall  be  taken  possession of by the   Central association of the state of New York, or directing that the same   be sold in the manner directed by said  order,  and  that  the  proceeds   thereof,  after  the  payment of the debts of such church or society, be   paid over to the Central association of  the  state  of  New  York.  All   property  and  proceeds from the sale of property so transferred to said   association shall be used and applied for the purposes  for  which  said   Central association of the state of New York was organized and shall not   be directed to any other purpose.The First Free Will Baptist church of the city of New York, located in   the  borough of Manhattan, shall in no way be amenable to the provisions   of this section.
NY Rel Corps L § 17-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 17-B - Property of Extinct Presbyterian Churches in Connection With the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (u.s.a.).

§  17-b.  Property of extinct Presbyterian churches in connection with   the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).  Whenever  the   presbytery  having  jurisdiction  over a particular church in connection   with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)  dissolves   or  declares  extinct  the  particular  church,  upon  petition  by  the   presbytery to the supreme or county court and upon satisfactory proof of   the facts leading to said dissolution, the court shall have jurisdiction   to grant an order to the effect that all property of whatever kind which   may have belonged to, or have been held by, said church  shall  vest  in   the presbytery of jurisdiction in as full and ample a manner as the same   shall  theretofore  have  been  vested  in  the church so declared to be   dissolved  and  extinct.  The  stated  clerk  of   the   presbytery   of   jurisdiction  shall  record  in the office of the county clerk, in which   the church is located,  a  certified  copy  of  the  resolution  of  the   presbytery   declaring   such   church   extinct  and  the  court  order   transferring the title of the church property; and the recording of such   a resolution and court order shall be proof of the vesting of the  title   of the real property of such church in the presbytery of jurisdiction.