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NY Rel Corps L § 196 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 196 - Changing Date of Annual Corporate Meetings.

§  196.  Changing  date  of  annual  corporate  meetings.    An annual   corporate meeting of an incorporated church to  which  this  article  is   applicable,  may  change  the  date of its annual meeting thereafter. If   such date shall next thereafter occur less than  six  months  after  the   annual  meeting  at  which  such change is made, the next annual meeting   shall be held one year from such next recurring date.   For the  purpose   of  determining  the  terms  of office of trustees, the time between the   annual meeting at which such change is made and the next annual  meeting   thereafter shall be reckoned as one year.
NY Rel Corps L § 197 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 197 - Changing Number of Trustees.

§  197.  Changing number of trustees.  An incorporated church to which   this article is applicable, may, at an annual corporate meeting,  change   the  number  of  its  trustees  to  three,  six,  nine, twelve, fifteen,   eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four, or classify them so that the  terms   of  one-third expire each year. No such change shall affect the terms of   the trustees then in office, and if the change  reduces  the  number  of   trustees,  it  shall  not take effect until the number of trustees whose   terms of office continue for one or more years after an annual  election   is  less  than the number determined on. Whenever the number of trustees   so holding over is less than the number so determined on, trustees shall   be elected in addition to those so holding over, sufficient to make  the   number  of  trustees  for  the  ensuing  year  equal  to  the  number so   determined on. The trustees so elected up to and including one-third  of   the  number  so  determined  on,  shall  be elected for three years, the   remainder up to and including one-third of the number so  determined  on   for two years, and the remainder for one year.
NY Rel Corps L § 198 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 198 - Meetings of Trustees.

§  198.  Meetings of trustees.  Two of the trustees of an incorporated   church, to which this article is applicable, may call a meeting of  such   trustees,   by   giving  at  least  twenty-four  hours'  notice  thereof   personally or by mail to the other trustees. A majority of the  trustees   lawfully  convened  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for the transaction of   business. In case of a tie vote  at  a  meeting  of  the  trustees,  the   presiding  officer  of  such meeting shall, notwithstanding he has voted   once, have an additional casting vote.
NY Rel Corps L § 199 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 199 - Vacancies Among Trustees.

§  199.  Vacancies among trustees.   If any trustee of an incorporated   church to which this article is applicable, declines to act, resigns  or   dies,  or having been a member of such church, ceases to be such member,   or not having been a member of such church, ceases  to  be  a  qualified   voter  at  a  corporate meeting thereof, his office shall be vacant, and   such vacancy may be filled by the  remaining  trustees  until  the  next   annual  corporate  meeting  of such church, at which meeting the vacancy   shall be filled for the unexpired term.
NY Rel Corps L § 200 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 200 - Control of Trustees by Corporate Meetings; Salaries of Ministers.

§  200.  Control  of  trustees  by  corporate  meetings;  salaries  of   ministers.   A  corporate  meeting  of  an  incorporated  church,  whose   trustees  are  elective  as  such, may give directions, not inconsistent   with law, as to the manner in which any of the temporal affairs  of  the   church   shall  be  administered  by  the  trustees  thereof;  and  such   directions shall be  followed  by  the  trustees.  The  trustees  of  an   incorporated  church  to which this article is applicable, shall have no   power to settle or remove or fix the salary of the minister, or  without   the  consent  of  a  corporate  meeting,  to  incur debts beyond what is   necessary for the care of the property of the corporation; or to fix  or   charge the time, nature or order of the public or social worship of such   church,  except  when  such  trustees are also the spiritual officers of   such church.
NY Rel Corps L § 201-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 201-A - Incorporation of the Religious Society of Friends.

§  201-a  Incorporation  of  the  Religious  Society  of  Friends.  An   unincorporated meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in this state   may be incorporated by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate   of incorporation, stating the corporate name by which such meeting shall   be known, and the county, town, city  or  village  where  its  principal   place  of  worship  or principal office is or is intended to be located.   Such certificate of incorporation shall be executed and acknowledged  by   the  clerk of such meeting, and shall have attached thereto a statement,   duly executed and acknowledged by the secretary, assistant clerk or such   person as shall have the duty of recording the transactions of  business   sessions  of  meetings  of  such  meeting, certifying that at a business   session or meeting of such meeting, duly held and  upon  not  less  than   thirty  days notice, to the members thereof, as hereinafter provided, by   a minute of the proceedings thereat,  duly  approved  according  to  the   usage  and  custom  of  such  meeting,  the  clerk  of  such meeting was   authorized  and  directed  to  execute  and  file  such  certificate  of   incorporation.  Such  notice shall be in writing, shall be given by mail   addressed to the last known address  of  each  member  of  such  meeting   according  to  the  records thereof, and shall state in substance that a   meeting of such unincorporated meeting will be held at its  usual  place   of   convening  at  a  specified  date  and  hour  for  the  purpose  of   incorporating such  meeting.  On  the  filing  of  such  certificate  in   accordance  with the provisions of this chapter, such meeting shall be a   corporation by the name stated in the certificate.
NY Rel Corps L § 203 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 203 - Conveyance or Incumbrance of Trust Property of Friends.

§  203.  Conveyance  or incumbrance of trust property of Friends.  The   trustee or trustees, or survivor of any trustees, of any meeting of  the   Religious  Society  of Friends, appointed pursuant to the last preceding   section, may sell, convey and grant, mortgage, or demise any or  all  of   the trust property described in said trust deed or declaration of trust,   to  any  person  absolutely  or  in trust for such meeting, whenever any   meeting of said society by resolution  so  directs.  Any  conveyance  or   mortgage  of  real estate or property so held in trust by any meeting of   the Religious Society of Friends, which is hereafter made  in  pursuance   of  a  resolution  of such meeting as provided herein, shall be as valid   and effectual for the conveyance or mortgage of the title  of  any  real   estate  so  held  in  trust, as if the heirs of any trustee who has died   prior to the passage of such resolution had joined in the  execution  of   such  conveyance,  mortgage  or  demise.  Any  instrument  for the sale,   mortgage or demise of such property shall embody such resolution, and be   executed and acknowledged by such  trustee  or  trustees;  and  in  such   acknowledgment such trustee or trustees shall make an affidavit that the   person  or persons executing such conveyance, mortgage or demise are the   trustee or trustees of the  trust  property,  and  that  the  resolution   embodied  in such conveyance, mortgage or demise was duly passed by such   meeting. Such affidavit shall be  prima  facie  evidence  of  the  facts   therein stated.
NY Rel Corps L § 204-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 204-B - Change of Name of Churches and Affiliated and Subsidiary Organizations of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Church.

§  204-b.  Change  of  name  of churches and affiliated and subsidiary   organizations of the church of the United Brethren  in  Christ  and  the   Evangelical Church.  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or of   any  general,  special  or local law, the two denominations known as the   church of the United Brethren  in  Christ  and  the  Evangelical  Church   having  united under the name of the Evangelical United Brethren Church,   all  existing   corporations,   institutions,   unincorporated   boards,   societies,  associations,  churches  or administrative agencies formerly   affiliated either with the church of the United Brethren  in  Christ  or   the   Evangelical   Church,  and  all  societies,  conferences,  boards,   associations, corporations or organizations directly connected therewith   or subsidiary thereto, shall be known as the Evangelical United Brethren   Church or an affiliate thereof  and  all  such  churches,  corporations,   unincorporated  associations, and other organizations shall hereafter be   known by such names as changed and amended by this section.The changes in names provided for by this section  shall  not  in  any   respect  change the identity of or affect, abate, defeat, alter or amend   any of the rights, privileges, powers,  property,  rights,  obligations,   liabilities,   or   duties   of  any  of  said  churches,  corporations,   organizations, or unincorporated associations aforesaid,  all  of  which   shall  remain  in full force and effect as though their respective names   had not been so changed.All   churches,   corporations,   organizations,   or   unincorporated   associations  using  the changed names as provided in this section shall   continue to have and be possessed of all  the  interest,  property,  and   rights  to  which  they  are  or  may become entitled under their former   corporate names or other respective designations.
NY Rel Corps L § 205 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 205 - Presiding Officer.

§  205.  Presiding  officer.   Nothing contained in this article shall   prevent the qualified voters  at  any  meeting  held  pursuant  to  this   article  or in this article described, from choosing a person to preside   at any such meeting, other than the person or officer designated in this   article to preside thereat, and when such other person shall  be  chosen   he  shall  exercise  all  the  powers in this article conferred upon the   presiding officer of such meeting.
NY Rel Corps L § 207 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 207 - The Number of Trustees of Jewish Congregations and Voting by Proxy at Certain Meetings Thereof.

§  207.  The  number of trustees of Jewish congregations and voting by   proxy at certain meetings thereof. A congregation of  the  Jewish  faith   may  at  any  general  or  special  corporate meeting thereof change the   number of its trustees to not more than seventy-two and classify them so   that the terms of one-third shall expire  each  year  and  the  trustees   elected  shall  hold  office  for  three  years.  Whenever the number of   trustees in office is less than the  number  determined  on,  sufficient   additional  trustees  shall  be  elected  to  make  the  total number of   trustees equal to the number determined on. The additional  trustees  so   to  be  elected  shall be classified and hold office for such terms, not   exceeding three years each, so that the terms of one-third of the  total   number  of trustees shall expire each year, and thereafter for a term of   three years each. The right of the members of such congregation to  vote   at  meetings  thereof shall be fixed by its by-laws, but every member of   such congregation entitled to vote at any meeting thereof  may  vote  by   proxy  on any proposition to sell, mortgage or lease any of its property   or for its consolidation with one or more other  religious  corporations   of the Jewish faith, or, in a city having a population of one million or   more according to the latest federal census, in any election of trustees   or  officers.  Every  proxy  must  be  executed in writing by the member   conferring the same and shall not be given to any person  other  than  a   member of the congregation. No proxy shall be valid after the expiration   of  one  year  from  the  date  of its execution.   Every proxy shall be   revocable at the pleasure of the person executing it.
NY Rel Corps L § 208 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 208 - Consolidation.

§  208.  Consolidation.  Any two or more religious corporations of the   Jewish faith, incorporated under or by  general  or  special  laws,  may   enter  into  an  agreement  for  the  consolidation  or  merger  of such   corporations, setting forth the terms and conditions  of  consolidation,   the  name  of  the  proposed or surviving corporation, the number of its   trustees, the time of the annual election and the names of  the  persons   to  be  its  trustees  until  the  first  or  next  annual meeting. Each   corporation may petition the supreme court for an order consolidating or   merging the corporations, setting forth the agreement for  consolidation   or  merger  and a statement of its real property and of its liabilities.   Before the presentation of the petition to the court the  agreement  and   petition  must  be approved by two-thirds of the votes cast in person or   by proxy at a meeting of the members of each corporation called for  the   purpose  of  considering  the  proposed  consolidation  or merger in the   manner prescribed by section six  hundred  five  of  the  not-for-profit   corporation law. An affidavit by the president and the secretary of each   corporation  stating  that such approval has been given shall be annexed   to the petition. On presentation to  the  court  of  such  petition  and   agreement  for  consolidation  or merger and on such notice as the court   may direct, the court after hearing all the parties interested  desiring   to  be  heard,  may make an order approving the consolidation or merger.   When such order is made and duly entered and a  certified  copy  thereof   filed  with  the  secretary of state and in the offices of the clerks of   the counties in which the certificates of incorporation of  the  several   constituent  corporations  were  recorded, or if no such certificate was   recorded, then in the office of the clerk of the  county  in  which  the   principal  place  of  worship  of  the  new  or surviving corporation is   intended to be situated, such corporations shall become one  corporation   by  the  name  designated  in  the  order  and the trustees named in the   agreement for consolidation or merger  shall  be  the  trustees  of  the   consolidated corporation.
NY Rel Corps L § 209 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 209 - Effect of Consolidation.

§ 209. Effect of consolidation. The consolidated or merged corporation   shall  possess  all the powers of the constituent corporations and shall   have the power and be  subject  to  the  duties  and  obligations  of  a   congregation  of  the  Jewish  faith  formed for like purposes under the   religious corporations law. All the rights, privileges and interests  of   each  of  the constituent corporations, all the property, real, personal   and mixed, and all the debts due on whatever account to either of  them,   and  all  things in action, belonging to either of them, shall be deemed   to be transferred to and vested in such new corporation without  further   act  or  deed;  and  all  claims,  demands,  property,  and  every other   interest, belonging to the several constituent corporations, shall be as   effectually the property of the new corporation  as  they  were  of  the   constituent  corporations,  and  the title to all real property, held or   taken by deed or otherwise under the laws of this state, vested  in  the   several  constituent corporations shall not be deemed to revert or to be   in any way impaired by reason of the consolidation but shall  be  vested   in the new corporation. Any devise, bequest, gift, grant, or declaration   of  trust, contained in any deed, will, or other instrument, in trust or   otherwise, made before or after such consolidation, or merger to or  for   any  of  the constituent corporations, shall inure to the benefit of the   consolidated or merged corporation. The consolidated  corporation  shall   be  deemed  to  have  assumed  and  shall  be  liable  for all debts and   obligations of the constituent corporations in the  same  manner  as  if   such new corporation had itself incurred such debts or obligations.
NY Rel Corps L § 210 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 210 - Incorporation of Church Connected With Supreme Council of Independent Associated Spiritualists.

§  210.  Incorporation  of  church  connected  with supreme council of   Independent Associated Spiritualists.   A meeting for  incorporating  or   reincorporating  a  church in connection with the supreme council of the   Independent Associated Spiritualists, Incorporated,  shall  be  held  in   pursuance  of  the  preceding  provisions  of this article. Such meeting   shall be held  and  such  church  shall  be  subject  to  the  following   provisions:1.  Notice  of  meeting  for incorporation. Notice of the meeting must   have attached thereto the endorsement and consent of the supreme council   of the Independent Associated Spiritualists;2. The meeting for incorporation. The meeting shall be called to order   by a person  delegated  to  do  so  by  the  supreme  councilor  or  his   representative;3.  The certificate of incorporation. The certificate of incorporation   shall have attached thereto the endorsement and consent of  the  supreme   council of the Independent Associated Spiritualists and the name of such   church  as adopted shall thereafter have affixed "In connection with the   supreme   council   of   the   Independent   Associated   Spiritualists,   Incorporated,"   or   "Affiliated   with  the  supreme  council  of  the   Independent Associated Spiritualists, Incorporated," as the case may be;4. Rules and regulations.  A  church  incorporated  or  reincorporated   under  the  provisions of this section shall be subject to the rules and   regulations  of  the  supreme  council  of  the  Independent  Associated   Spiritualists;5.  Trustees. The trustees of a church incorporated under this section   shall also be the spiritual officers of such church;6. Election of ministers. No church may engage or  retain  a  minister   not certified as in good standing by the supreme council;7.  Licenses  and  certificates.  Only  persons  holding  a minister's   license or a certificate of proficiency from the supreme  council  shall   conduct  services  or  classes  in  any  church, incorporated under this   section.
NY Rel Corps L § 211 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 10 - Other Denominations 211 - Incorporation of Church in Connection With Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc.

§  211.  Incorporation  of church in connection with Spiritual Science   Mother Church, Inc. A meeting for  incorporating  or  reincorporating  a   church  in  connection with Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc., shall   be held in pursuance of the preceding provisions of this  article.  Such   meeting  shall be held and such church shall be subject to the following   provisions:1. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice  of  the  meeting  must   have  attached  thereto the endorsement and consent of Spiritual Science   Mother Church, Inc.2. The meeting for incorporation. The meeting shall be called to order   by an authorized delegate of the board of directors of Spiritual Science   Mother  Church,  Inc.,  the  supreme  ecclesiastical  council  governing   Spiritual Science Mother Church and its branch churches.3.  The certificate of incorporation. The certificate of incorporation   shall have attached thereto the endorsement and consent of the board  of   directors of Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc., and the name of such   church  as  adopted  shall  thereafter  have  affixed: "Branch Church of   Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc., of New York."4. Rules and regulations.  A  church  incorporated  or  reincorporated   under  the  provisions of this section shall be subject to the rules and   regulations of the  board  of  directors  of  Spiritual  Science  Mother   Church, Inc.5.  Trustees.  The  trustees  of such branch church incorporated under   this section shall also be the spiritual officers of such church.6. Election of ministers. No branch church of  Spiritual  Science  may   engage  or  retain, under this section, any minister not certified as in   good standing by Spiritual Science Mother Church board of directors.7. Licenses  and  certificates.  Only  persons  holding  a  minister's   license  or a certificate of proficiency from the ecclesiastical council   of Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc., shall conduct services in  any   church incorporated under this section.8.  Recording of licenses. Such license or certificate shall be made a   matter of public record either in the office of the county clerk or such   other place as by law may be provided for such record.