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NY Rel Corps L § 105 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 5-C - Churches of the Orthodox Church in America 105 - Definitions.

§  105. Definitions. The "Orthodox Church in America", as that term is   used anywhere in  this  article,  refers  to  that  group  of  churches,   cathedrals,  chapels, congregations, societies, parishes, committees and   other  religious  organizations  of  the  Eastern  Confession   (Eastern   Orthodox  or  Greek  Catholic  Church)  which  were known as (a) Russian   American Mission of  the  Russian  Orthodox  Church  from  in  or  about   seventeen  hundred ninety-three to in or about eighteen hundred seventy;   (b) Diocese of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands of the  Russian  Orthodox   Church from in or about eighteen hundred seventy to in or about nineteen   hundred  four; (c) Diocese of North America and the Aleutian Islands (or   Alaska) of the Russian Orthodox Church from in or about nineteen hundred   four to in or about nineteen hundred twenty-four; (d)  Russian  Orthodox   Greek  Catholic  Church  of  North America (or America) from in or about   nineteen hundred twenty-four to October nineteen  hundred  seventy;  and   (e)  Orthodox  Church in America since October nineteen hundred seventy;   and were subject to the administrative jurisdiction of the  Most  Sacred   Governing  Synod in Moscow until in or about nineteen hundred seventeen,   later   the   Patriachate   of   Moscow,   thereafter   constituted   an   administratively autonomous metropolitan district, but now constitute an   autocephalous  church  of  the  Eastern  Confession (Eastern Orthodox or   Greek Catholic Church) by virtue of a proclamation of  autocephaly  made   on  April tenth, nineteen hundred seventy by the Patriarch of Moscow and   All Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.An "American Orthodox church", as that term is used anywhere  in  this   article,  is a church, cathedral, chapel, congregation, society, parish,   committee or other religious organization founded  and  established  for   the purpose and with the intent of adhering to, and being subject to the   administrative   jurisdiction   of  said  mission,  diocese,  autonomous   metropolitan district or autocephalous church hereinabove defined as the   Orthodox Church in America.
NY Rel Corps L § 106 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 5-C - Churches of the Orthodox Church in America 106 - Incorporation of Churches of Orthodox Church in America.

§  106.  Incorporation  of churches of Orthodox Church in America.  An   unincorporated  American  Orthodox  church  in   this   state   may   be   incorporated  by  executing,  acknowledging  and filing a certificate of   incorporation, stating the corporate name by which such church shall  be   known and the county, town, city or village where its principal place of   worship is or is intended to be located. There shall be attached to such   certificate  the  permission  to  incorporate signed by the metropolitan   archbishop or other primate  or  hierarch  of  the  Orthodox  Church  in   America,  or  by the locum tenens acting in his place.  Such certificate   of incorporation shall be executed and acknowledged by six  lay  members   of such church.On  filing  such certificate such church shall be a corporation by the   name stated in the certificate.
NY Rel Corps L § 108 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 5-C - Churches of the Orthodox Church in America 108 - Reincorporation of Existing Corporations.

§  108.  Reincorporation  of  existing  corporations.  Any  heretofore   incorporated  American  Orthodox  church  may  reincorporate  under  the   provisions  of this article, by filing in the office of the county clerk   in the county in which its principal place  of  worship  is  located,  a   certificate,  signed  by  the  trustees  in  office  at the time of such   reincorporation, or by the majority of them,  setting  forth  that  they   desire  to  reincorporate  under  the  provisions  of  this article, the   corporate name by which such church shall be known,  the  county,  town,   city  or village where its principal place of worship is located and the   number and the names of the trustees who are to hold  office  until  the   next  annual meeting of said church. Immediately upon the filing of such   certificate all the right, title, equity and interest of such church  in   any  estate,  real  or personal, together with all franchise and charter   rights, shall be vested in the body corporate  and  politic  so  created   under  this  article and the original incorporation of such church shall   be null and void.
NY Rel Corps L § 110 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 6 - Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Lutheran Churches 110 - Decision by a Reformed Dutch or Reformed Presbyterian Church as to System of Incorporation and Government.

§ 110. Decision by a Reformed Dutch or Reformed Presbyterian church as   to system of incorporation and government. The minister or ministers, if   there  be any, and the elders and deacons of an unincorporated church in   connection with the Reformed church in America, the true Reformed  Dutch   church   in   the  United  States  of  America,  or  with  the  Reformed   Presbyterian  church,  may  determine  to  incorporate  such  church  in   pursuance  of  this article, or to call a meeting of such unincorporated   church for  the  purpose  of  deciding  whether  such  church  shall  be   incorporated  in  pursuance  of  article  ten  of this chapter, entitled   "Special provisions for the incorporation and government of churches  of   other denominations."If  such  ministers, elders and deacons determine to call such meeting   for such purpose, then such church may  be  incorporated  and  shall  be   governed  after  its  incorporation  in  pursuance  of the provisions of   article ten of this chapter,  except  such  provisions  thereof  as  are   applicable  to  churches  of a single denomination only, and except that   the notice of the meeting for incorporation  shall  be  signed  by  such   ministers,  elders  and  deacons  or  a  majority  of them, and no other   signatures thereto shall be necessary to its validity; and, if it  be  a   Reformed  church  in America, it shall, after incorporation, be governed   by such of the provisions of this article as relates to  its  consistory   and to the choice of its minister.
NY Rel Corps L § 111 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 6 - Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Lutheran Churches 111 - Decision by Lutheran Church as to System of Incorporation and Government.

§  111.  Decision by Lutheran church as to system of incorporation and   government. A meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated   Evangelical Lutheran church must be called and held in pursuance of  the   provisions  of  article  ten  of  this  chapter,  except  that the first   business of such meeting after its organization, shall be  to  determine   whether  such  church shall be incorporated and governed in pursuance of   this article, or in pursuance of article ten of this  chapter.  If  such   meeting  determines  that such church shall be incorporated and governed   in pursuance of this article, then no further proceedings shall be taken   in pursuance of article ten, and such church  may  be  incorporated  and   shall be governed after its incorporation in pursuance of the provisions   of the following sections of this article, except such provisions as are   applicable  only  to  churches  of  a  different  denomination;  and the   certificate of incorporation shall recite  such  determination  of  such   meeting.   If   such   meeting  determine  that  such  church  shall  be   incorporated and governed in pursuance of article ten of  this  chapter,   then  this  article shall not be applicable thereto, but such church may   be incorporated  and  shall  be  governed  after  its  incorporation  in   pursuance  of the provisions of article ten of this chapter, except such   provisions  as  are  applicable  to  churches  of  a  single   religious   denomination only.
NY Rel Corps L § 112 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 6 - Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Lutheran Churches 112 - Incorporation of Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Evangelical Lutheran Churches Under This Article.

§  112.  Incorporation  of  Reformed  Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and   Evangelical Lutheran churches under this article. If any  unincorporated   church  in  connection  with  the  Reformed  church in America, the true   Reformed Dutch church in the United  States  of  America,  the  Reformed   Presbyterian  church, or with the Evangelical Lutheran church, determine   to incorporate in pursuance of this article, the minister  or  ministers   and  the elders and deacons thereof shall execute, acknowledge and cause   to be filed and recorded, a certificate in pursuance  of  this  article.   The  deacons  of  a  Reformed  Presbyterian  church  may alone sign such   certificate if authorized so to do by such church. Such  certificate  of   incorporation  shall  state  the  name  of the proposed corporation, the   county and town, city or village where its principal place of worship is   or is intended to be located, and, if  it  be  an  Evangelical  Lutheran   church,  the fact that a meeting of such church duly called decided that   it be incorporated under this article.  If it be signed by  the  deacons   of  a  Reformed  Presbyterian  church,  it  shall  state  that they were   authorized so to do by such church.  On  filing  such  certificate  such   church  shall  be  a  corporation  by  the  name stated therein, and the   minister or ministers, if any, and the elders and deacons of such church   shall by virtue of their offices be the trustees  of  such  corporation,   except  that if it be a Reformed Presbyterian church, the certificate of   incorporation of which shall have been, in pursuance of law,  signed  by   its  deacons  only, the deacons of such church shall, by virtue of their   offices, be the trustees of such corporation.
NY Rel Corps L § 113 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 6 - Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Lutheran Churches 113 - Consistory of a Reformed Church in America; Minister, How Chosen.

§  113.  Consistory  of  a  Reformed  church in America; minister, how   chosen. Any church in connection with the Reformed  church  in  America,   the choice or election of the members of whose consistory is not subject   to  the  ecclesiastical rules or jurisdiction of such Reformed church in   America, shall, if the consistory so determine, be subject to such rules   and jurisdiction; and thereafter  the  choice  of  the  members  of  the   consistory shall be in accordance with such rules and practices.If  any such church be incorporated under article ten of this chapter,   or if its trustees be elective in pursuance of such article,  its  board   of  trustees  and its consistory shall act concurrently in the choice of   its minister.
NY Rel Corps L § 114 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 6 - Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Lutheran Churches 114 - Reformed Churches in America, Changing System of Choosing Trustees; Minister, How Chosen.

§  114.  Reformed  churches  in  America,  changing system of choosing   trustees; minister, how chosen. If the  ministers,  elders  and  deacons   who, at any time, by virtue of their offices, constitute the trustees of   any  Reformed church in America, or of any true Reformed Dutch church in   the United States of America, determine that the trustees of such church   shall thereafter be  elective  in  pursuance  of  article  ten  of  this   chapter,  and  shall determine whether the number of such trustees shall   be three, six or nine, and the date of the annual corporate  meeting  of   the  church,  they  may  sign,  acknowledge  and  cause  to be filed and   recorded in the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  county  in  which  the   certificate  of  incorporation  of  such  church is filed or recorded, a   certificate of such determinations.  Thereafter  the  trustees  of  such   church  shall  be elective in pursuance of the provisions of article ten   of this chapter, relating to the election of  trustees  of  incorporated   churches.  At the next annual corporate meeting after the filing of such   certificate, one-third of the number of trustees so determined on  shall   be  elected  to  hold  office  for one year, one-third for two years and   one-third for three years, and the minister, elders  and  deacons  shall   cease  to  be  the  trustees  of  such church. At each subsequent annual   corporate meeting of such church, one-third of the number of trustees so   determined on shall be elected to hold office for three  years.  If  the   trustees  of  an  incorporated  Reformed  church in America or of a true   Dutch Reformed church in the United States of America are  at  any  time   elective, in pursuance of article ten of this chapter, or otherwise, the   board  of trustees and the consistory thereof may concurrently determine   that the minister or ministers, if any, and the elders  and  deacons  of   such  church  shall  constitute  the  trustees  thereof.    Thereon  the   president and clerk of the consistory and the president and clerk of the   board of trustees shall sign and acknowledge and cause to be  filed  and   recorded  in the office of the clerk of the county in which the original   certificate of incorporation is filed or recorded, a certificate of such   determination, stating the names of such ministers, elders and  deacons.   On  so  filing  and  recording  such certificate, such board of trustees   shall be dissolved, and  the  minister  or  ministers,  and  elders  and   deacons  of such church, and their successors in office shall constitute   the trustees of such church.
NY Rel Corps L § 115 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 6 - Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Lutheran Churches 115 - Reformed Presbyterian Churches, Changing System of Choosing Trustees; Pew Rents and Minister's Salary.

§  115.  Reformed  Presbyterian  churches, changing system of choosing   trustees; pew rents and minister's salary. If any incorporated  Reformed   Presbyterian  church,  at  a  meeting  of  the  church  or congregation,   determine that the deacons of such church shall be the trustees thereof,   then the deacons of such church actively  engaged  in  the  exercise  of   their  offices therein, and their successors in office, shall, by virtue   of their respective offices, be the trustees of such church. The  salary   of  the  minister and the pew rents in any such church shall be fixed by   the vote of the congregation, and the trustees shall not fix  or  change   the same.
NY Rel Corps L § 130 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 7 - Baptist Churches 130 - Notice of Meeting for Incorporation.

§  130.  Notice of meeting for incorporation.  Notice of a meeting for   the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated Baptist church  shall  be   given  as  follows:  The notice shall be in writing, and shall state, in   substance, that a meeting of such unincorporated church will be held  at   its  usual place of worship at a specified day and hour, for the purpose   of incorporating such church, electing trustees thereof, and selecting a   corporate name therefor. The notice must  be  signed  by  at  least  six   persons  of  full age, who are then members in good and regular standing   of such church by admission into full communion or membership therewith.   A copy of such notice shall be publicly read at  a  regular  meeting  of   such  unincorporated  church  for  public worship, on the two successive   Sundays immediately preceding the  meeting,  by  the  minister  of  such   church,  or  a  deacon  thereof  or by any person qualified to sign such   notice.
NY Rel Corps L § 131 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 7 - Baptist Churches 131 - The Meeting for Incorporation.

§   131.   The   meeting  for  incorporation.    At  the  meeting  for   incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, the  qualified  voters,   until otherwise decided as hereinafter provided, shall be all persons of   full  age,  who  are  then members, in good and regular standing of such   church, by admission into full communion  or  membership  therewith.  At   such  meeting  the  presence  of a majority of such qualified voters, at   least six in number, shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, and  all   matters  or  questions  shall  be decided by a majority of the qualified   voters voting thereon. There shall be elected at said meeting  from  the   qualified  voters then present, a presiding officer, a clerk to keep the   record of the proceedings of the meeting and two inspectors of  election   to  receive  the  ballots cast. The presiding officer and the inspectors   shall declare the result of the ballots cast on any matter, and shall be   the judges of the qualifications of voters.  If the meeting shall decide   that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated,  the  meeting   shall  also decide upon the name of the proposed corporation, the number   of the trustees thereof, which shall be  three,  six,  nine,  twelve  or   eighteen,  and  the  date,  not  more than fifteen months thereafter, on   which the first annual election of the trustees thereof shall  be  held,   and  shall decide also whether those who, from the time of the formation   of  such  church  or  during  the  year  preceding   the   meeting   for   incorporation,  have  statedly  worshipped  with  such  church  and have   regularly  contributed  to  the  financial  support  thereof,  shall  be   qualified  voters  at  such meeting for incorporation, and whether those   who during the year preceding the subsequent corporate meetings  of  the   church  shall  have  statedly worshipped with such church and shall have   regularly  contributed  to  the  financial  support  thereof,  shall  be   qualified   voters  at  such  corporate  meetings.  Such  meeting  shall   thereupon elect by ballot from the persons  qualified  to  vote  thereat   one-third of the number of trustees so decided on, who shall hold office   until the first annual election of trustees thereafter, and one-third of   such  number  of  trustees who shall hold office until the second annual   election of  trustees  thereafter,  and  one-third  of  such  number  of   trustees  who  shall  hold  office  until  the  third annual election of   trustees thereafter, or until the respective successors of such trustees   shall be elected.
NY Rel Corps L § 132 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 7 - Baptist Churches 132 - The Certificate of Incorporation.

§  132. The certificate of incorporation.  If the meeting shall decide   that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding   officer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall execute   a certificate setting forth the name of the  proposed  corporation,  the   number  of  the  trustees  thereof,  the names of the persons elected as   trustees and the terms  of  office  for  which  they  were  respectively   elected  and the county and town, city or village in which its principal   place of worship is or is intended to be  located.  On  the  filing  and   recording  of  such certificate after it shall have been acknowledged or   proved as hereinbefore provided, the persons qualified to vote  at  such   meeting  and  those  persons who shall thereafter, from time to time, be   qualified  voters  at  the  corporate  meetings  thereof,  shall  be   a   corporation  by  the  name  stated  in such certificate, and the persons   therein stated to be elected  trustees  of  such  church  shall  be  the   trustees thereof, for the terms for which they were respectively elected   and until their respective successors shall be elected.
NY Rel Corps L § 133 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 7 - Baptist Churches 133 - Time, Place and Notice of Corporate Meetings.

§  133.  Time,  place  and  notice of corporate meetings.   The annual   corporate meeting of every incorporated Baptist church shall be held  at   the  time  and  place  fixed by or in pursuance of law therefor, if such   time and place be so fixed, and otherwise, at a time  and  place  to  be   fixed  by  its  trustees. A special corporate meeting of any such church   may be called by the board of trustees thereof, on its own  motion,  and   shall  be called on the written request of at least ten qualified voters   of such church. The trustees shall cause notice of the time and place of   its annual corporate meeting, and of the names  of  any  trustees  whose   successors  are to be elected thereat; and, if a special meeting, of the   business to be transacted thereat, to be publicly read by  the  minister   of such church or any trustee thereof at a regular meeting of the church   for  public worship, on the two successive Sundays immediately preceding   such meeting; or if no such meeting for public worship shall  have  been   held  during  such  period,  by  conspicuously  posting  such notice, in   writing, upon the outer entrance of the principal place  of  worship  of   such  church and by mailing a copy of such notice to each member of such   church in a securely sealed envelope, postage prepaid, addressed to  his   last known place of residence, at least two weeks before such meeting.
NY Rel Corps L § 134 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 7 - Baptist Churches 134 - Organization and Conduct of Corporate Meetings; Qualifications of Voters Thereat.

§  134. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications   of voters thereat.  At a corporate meeting of  an  incorporated  Baptist   church the qualified voters shall be all persons who are then members of   such  church  in  good  and  regular  standing  by  admission  into full   communion or membership therewith, or who have statedly worshipped  with   such  church  and  have  regularly  contributed to the financial support   thereof  during  the  year  next  preceding  such   meeting;   but   any   incorporated Baptist church may at any annual corporate meeting thereof,   if  notice  of  the intention so to do has been given with the notice of   such meeting, decide that thereafter only members of such church in good   and regular standing by admission  into  full  communion  or  membership   therewith  shall  be qualified voters at the corporate meetings. At such   corporate meetings the presence of at least  six  persons  qualified  to   vote  thereat shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, and all matters   or questions shall be decided by a  majority  of  the  qualified  voters   voting  thereon.  There  shall  be  elected  at  said  meeting  from the   qualified voters then present, a presiding officer, a clerk to keep  the   records of the proceedings of the meeting and two inspectors of election   to  receive  the ballots cast.  The presiding officer and the inspectors   of election shall declare the result of the ballots cast on  any  matter   and  shall  be the judge of the qualifications of voters. At each annual   corporate meeting, successors to those trustees whose  terms  of  office   then expire, shall be elected by ballot from the qualified voters, for a   term  of  three  years  thereafter,  and until their successors shall be   elected.