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NY Rel Corps L § 42-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3 - Protestant Episcopal Parishes or Churches 42-A - Additional Powers of the Corporate Trustees and Vestry.

§  42-a.  Additional  powers  of  the  corporate  trustees and vestry.   Notwithstanding and in addition to the provisions  of  section  five  of   this  chapter,  and  subject  always  to the trust in which all real and   personal property is held for the Protestant Episcopal  Church  and  the   Diocese thereof in which the parish, mission or congregation is located,   the  vestry  or trustees of any incorporated Protestant Episcopal parish   or church, the trustees of every  incorporated  governing  body  of  the   Protestant   Episcopal   Church  and  each  diocese  are  authorized  to   administer the temporalities and property, real and personal,  belonging   to  the  corporation, for the support and maintenance of the corporation   and, provided it is in accordance with the discipline, rules and  usages   of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  and  with  the provisions of law   relating thereto, for the support and maintenance  of  other  religious,   charitable,  benevolent  or educational objects whether or not conducted   by the corporation or in connection  with  it  or  with  the  Protestant   Episcopal Church.
NY Rel Corps L § 44 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3 - Protestant Episcopal Parishes or Churches 44 - Changing the Number of Vestrymen of Protestant Episcopal Parishes Hereafter Incorporated.

§  44.  Changing  the  number  of  vestrymen  of  Protestant Episcopal   parishes hereafter incorporated. If the vestry of a Protestant Episcopal   parish, hereafter incorporated, shall, by resolution, recommend that the   number of vestrymen of such parish be  changed  to  either  three,  six,   nine,  twelve,  fifteen,  eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four vestrymen,   notice of such recommendation shall be included in  the  notice  of  the   next  annual  election  of  such  parish,  or in the notice of a special   meeting to be held not less than six months before the  time  fixed  for   holding  the  next  annual election thereafter, and be submitted to such   annual or special meeting. If such recommendation be  ratified  by  such   meeting,  the  presiding  officer  thereof,  and  at least two qualified   voters present thereat, shall  execute  and  acknowledge  a  certificate   setting  forth  such  resolution  of  the  vestry,  the fact that notice   thereof had been given with the notice of such annual election, or  with   the  notice of such special meeting as the case may be; that the meeting   had ratified the same; and the number of vestrymen so decided  on.  Such   certificate  shall  be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in   which the original certificate of incorporation is filed  and  recorded,   and such change in the number of vestrymen shall take effect at the time   of  the  next  annual election thereafter. If the number of vestrymen be   thereby increased, then, in addition to the number of  vestrymen  to  be   elected  at  such annual election, one-third of such increased number of   vestrymen shall be elected to  hold  office  for  one  year  thereafter,   one-third  of  such increased number shall be elected to hold office for   two years thereafter, and one-third of such increased  number  shall  be   elected  to  hold  office  for  three years thereafter. If the number of   vestrymen by such change be reduced, such reduction shall not affect the   term of office of any vestryman duly elected, and at  such  next  annual   election  and  at  each  annual  election  thereafter, one-third of such   reduced number of vestrymen shall be elected to hold  office  for  three   years.
NY Rel Corps L § 46 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3 - Protestant Episcopal Parishes or Churches 46 - Changing the Qualifications of Voters and the Qualifications of Wardens and Vestrymen.

§  46. Changing the qualifications of voters and the qualifications of   wardens and vestrymen. If the vestry of a  Protestant  Episcopal  parish   heretofore   incorporated   shall   by  resolution  recommend  that  the   qualifications of voters and the qualifications of wardens and vestrymen   be changed to conform in both  cases  to  the  requirements  of  section   forty-three  of  this  chapter,  notice  of such recommendation shall be   included in the notice of the next annual election of such  parish,  and   be submitted to the meeting.  If such recommendation be ratified by such   meeting  the presiding officer thereof and at least two qualified voters   present thereat shall execute  and  acknowledge  a  certificate  setting   forth  such  resolution  of the vestry, the fact that notice thereof had   been given with the notice of such annual election, and that the meeting   had ratified the same. Such certificate shall be filed in the office  of   the   clerk   of  the  county  in  which  the  original  certificate  of   incorporation is filed and recorded.
NY Rel Corps L § 48 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3 - Protestant Episcopal Parishes or Churches 48 - Legacies.

§  48. Legacies. Any devise or bequest of real or personal property to   an unincorporated parish, mission,  congregation,  chapel  or  religious   society  under  the  jurisdiction of or in communion with the Protestant   Episcopal Church, for the purposes of such gift, may be taken, held  and   administered  for the benefit of such devisee or legatee by the diocesan   corporation of the diocese in which such devisee or legatee is  situate,   and  such  diocesan  corporation  shall  have  the power, subject to the   provisions of article five of the not-for-profit corporation law and  of   section  twelve  of  this  chapter,  to  lease, improve, mortgage, sell,   convey and transfer any property so held.
NY Rel Corps L § 49 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3 - Protestant Episcopal Parishes or Churches 49 - Eligibility of Certain Minors as Lay Delegates and to Vote and Hold Office.

§  49.  Eligibility of certain minors as lay delegates and to vote and   hold office. Whenever the constitution or canons of  a  diocese  of  the   Protestant Episcopal church in the state of New York so permits, persons   of  less than full age but of the age of eighteen years or more shall be   eligible to serve as lay delegates to and to vote at any  convention  of   the diocese, when duly chosen by the parish or mission and shall also be   eligible  for  election  to  or  appointment  to  any  lay office of the   diocese.
NY Rel Corps L § 50 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-A - Apostolic Episcopal Parishes or Churches 50 - Application for Incorporation.

§  50.  Application  for  incorporation.  An  unincorporated Apostolic   Episcopal Church, or a congregation acknowledging the historic apostolic   eastern confession and order in this state, may apply to the bishop  who   is  the  ecclesiastical  administrator  of  Metropolitan Synod Apostolic   Episcopal Church for permission and sanction to incorporate such church.   When such permission aforesaid has been obtained  in  writing  over  the   signature   and   seal  of  such  bishop,  such  church  may  become  an   incorporated church by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate   of incorporation as hereinafter provided.Any  religious  order,  biblical  seminary  for  the  preparation   of   candidates  for  the ministry, leading to ordination and the granting of   credentials of ecclesiastical degrees of orders in sacred  theology,  or   religious  society  established for evangelical efforts or the relief of   the poor and needy, which is intended to be an auxiliary organization of   the Apostolic Episcopal Church,  where  a  chapel  for  the  conduct  of   worship  is  provided, shall be deemed a congregation to all intents and   purposes, and may be incorporated  in  the  manner  prescribed  in  this   article as a congregation of the Apostolic Episcopal Church.
NY Rel Corps L § 51 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-A - Apostolic Episcopal Parishes or Churches 51 - Notice of Meeting for Incorporation.

§ 51. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the   purpose  of  incorporating an unincorporated Apostolic Episcopal Church,   or congregation  acknowledging  the  apostolic  eastern  confession  and   order, shall be given as follows:1.  The notice shall be in writing and shall state in substance that a   meeting of such unincorporated church or congregation will  be  held  at   its  usual  place of worship at a specific day and hour, for the purpose   of incorporating such church or congregation, electing  laymen  trustees   thereof and selecting a corporate name therefor.2.   The   notice  shall  also  state  that  the  bishop  who  is  the   ecclesiastical administrator aforesaid has given sanction and permission   in writing to proceed with the incorporation of such church.3. The notice must be signed by at least six persons of full age,  who   are  baptised, have statedly worshipped with such church or congregation   and have regularly contributed to its support, according to its  usages,   for at least one year or since it was formed.4.  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 in charge of   such church, or by any one of the persons qualified to sign such notice.
NY Rel Corps L § 53 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-A - Apostolic Episcopal Parishes or Churches 53 - Resolution to Be Adopted at Incorporation Meeting.

§  53.  Resolution  to  be  adopted  at incorporation meeting. At such   meeting  held  for  the  incorporation  of  such   parish,   church   or   congregation  as  an  Apostolic  Episcopal Church, by whatever corporate   name said church shall take, the following resolution shall be passed by   a majority of the qualified voters of such meeting, to wit:"Resolved, that whereas, it has been decided by  a  majority  vote  to   incorporate  said church under the name of (here give the corporate name   by which such church is to be known) as a congregation of the  Apostolic   Episcopal  Church  and  under the spiritual jurisdiction of metropolitan   synod of such denomination; we likewise, by a majority vote of the  duly   qualified  voters  at  this  meeting, held for the incorporation of said   church, now decide that the clergymen trustees of this said church shall   be the bishop who is the ecclesiastical administrator, the vicar-general   and the chancellor of the aforesaid metropolitan synod and the rector or   vicar of this church, and their successors in office, shall by virtue of   their offices, be the clergymen trustees of this church, which said four   officers together with the ............ laymen trustees elected at  this   incorporation  meeting,  shall  constitute  the  trustees  thereof. Said   clergymen trustees' term of office shall continue until their successors   in said office are elected by the Metropolitan Synod Apostolic Episcopal   Church, and said laymen trustees term of office shall be that  fixed  by   statute."
NY Rel Corps L § 54 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-A - Apostolic Episcopal Parishes or Churches 54 - Certificate of Incorporation.

§  54.  Certificate  of  incorporation. 1. If the meeting shall decide that such unincorporated church shall become an incorporated  church  or congregation  of  the  Apostolic  Episcopal  Church,  a  certificate  of incorporation therefor shall be executed and acknowledged by the  bishop who  is  the  ecclesiastical  administrator,  the  vicar-general and the chancellor of Metropolitan Synod Apostolic Episcopal Church, the  rector or  vicar  of the church or congregation and by the laymen trustees that have been elected, and by the clerk of the  corporation,  and  the  said certificate of incorporation shall contain the following:  (a) The name of the proposed corporation;  (b)  The  number  of laymen trustees thereof, the names of the persons elected as laymen trustees, the terms of  office  for  which  they  were respectively elected as laymen trustees;  (c)  An  exact  copy of the resolution which provides for the clerical trustees by virtue of their offices;  (d) The county and town, city or village in which the principal  place of worship is or is intended to be located.   2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such church is or is intended to be located, such church shall  be  a  corporation by the name stated in the certificate, and the persons therein stated to be elected clerical  and  laymen  trustees  of such  church  shall  be the trustees therefor for their respective terms and until their successors are elected.
NY Rel Corps L § 56 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-A - Apostolic Episcopal Parishes or Churches 56 - Changing Date of Annual Corporate Meetings.

§  56. Changing date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate   meeting of an incorporated church to which this  article  is  applicable   may,  by  a  majority vote of the duly qualified voters at such meeting,   change the date of its annual meeting thereafter. If  such  date  as  so   changed  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 period of time elapsing   between  the date of 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 § 57 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-A - Apostolic Episcopal Parishes or Churches 57 - Changing Number of Laymen Trustees.

§  57.  Changing  number of laymen trustees. An incorporated church to   which this article is applicable may, by a majority  vote  of  the  duly   qualified  voters  at  an annual corporate meeting, change the number of   its laymen trustees to three, six or nine, and classify them so that the   terms of one-third of such number so changed expire each year.  No  such   change shall affect the terms of the laymen trustees then in office, and   if  the  change reduces the number of laymen trustees, it shall not take   effect until the  number  of  laymen  trustees  whose  terms  of  office   continue  for one or more years after an annual election of trustees, is   less than the number determined upon.  Whenever  the  number  of  laymen   trustees  so  holding  over  is  less  than  the  number  so determined,   sufficient laymen trustees shall be elected, in  addition  to  those  so   holding over, to make the number of laymen trustees for the ensuing year   equal  to the number so determined. The laymen trustees so elected up to   and including one-third of the number so determined  shall  hold  office   for  a  term of three years, the remainder up to and including one-third   of the number so determined, for two years and the  remainder,  for  one   year.
NY Rel Corps L § 58 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-A - Apostolic Episcopal Parishes or Churches 58 - Meetings of Trustees.

§  58.  Meetings  of  trustees.  Meetings  of  the  trustees  of  such   incorporated church shall be called  by  giving  at  least  three  days'   notice  thereof  in  writing,  served  personally  or by mail to all the   trustees, unless, by a regularly adopted  standing  resolution  a  fixed   date  for  such  meeting  is the approved order, in which case a written   notice may be dispensed with. To duly constitute such regular or special   meeting of the trustees for the transaction of business, at any  meeting   lawfully  convened,  there  shall  be  present  a majority of the laymen   trustees,  the  rector  or  vicar  of  the  church,  the  clerk  of  the   corporation   and   either   the   bishop   who  is  the  ecclesiastical   administrator, the vicar-general or the chancellor of  the  Metropolitan   Synod  Apostolic  Episcopal  Church.  But if the church has no rector or   vicar, at least one of the trustees who is a warden must be present.  If   either  the  bishop,  vicar-general or the chancellor cannot be present,   the bishop who is the ecclesiastical administrator may send his proxy to   one of the laymen trustees. No  act  or  procedure  other  than  regular   routine  matters in regard to the administration of the temporal affairs   of the church and for the care of the property of  the  corporation,  as   included in the budget items, shall be valid without the sanction of the   bishop and ecclesiastical administrator of the synod or diocese to which   the  church  belongs; nor shall the trustees, without the consent of the   corporate meeting incur debts for items  not  provided  in  the  adopted   budget.  Trustees  of  such  incorporated  church shall have no power to   call, settle or remove a minister or to  fix  his  salary;  or  to  fix,   change  the time, nature or order of the public or social worship, rites   and  religious  observances  of  such  church  which  are  or  shall  be   established by the governing ecclesiastical body.
NY Rel Corps L § 58-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-A - Apostolic Episcopal Parishes or Churches 58-A - Vacancies Among Trustees.

§  58-a.  Vacancies  among  trustees.  If  any  trustee  of  any  such   incorporated church declines to act, resigns or dies, or 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 § 59 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-A - Apostolic Episcopal Parishes or Churches 59 - Rector; Vicar; Ministers; Their Appointment, Removal and Compensation.

§  59.  Rector;  vicar;  ministers;  their  appointment,  removal  and   compensation. The rector or vicar or other ministers of any such church,   by whatever title they are called in ecclesiastical language,  shall  be   called, settled or removed and their salaries fixed, only by the vote of   a  majority of the members of such corporation duly qualified to vote at   elections  present  and  voting  at  a  meeting  of   such   corporation   specifically  called  for  that  purpose,  subject to the consent of the   bishop who is the ecclesiastical  administrator  of  Metropolitan  Synod   Apostolic Episcopal Church, given in writing. A rector or vicar or other   minister so called, with the sanction of the bishop in writing, shall be   deemed settled definitely in such church, when he has accepted such call   in   writing.   Unless  there  is  sufficient  cause  to  terminate  the   relationship of such clergyman and such church such  relationship  shall   be deemed permanent and governed entirely by the rules and usages of the   Apostolic  Episcopal  Church,  subject  to  the  bishop and metropolitan   synod.
NY Rel Corps L § 59-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-A - Apostolic Episcopal Parishes or Churches 59-A - Additional Qualifications of Voters at Annual and Special Corporate Meetings.

§  59-a.  Additional  qualifications  of  voters at annual and special   corporate meetings. Duly qualified  voters  at  any  annual  or  special   corporate  meeting  of  any  such  incorporated church shall be baptised   persons, who have been admitted to the full communion relations of  such   church  according  to  its  usages,  and  who are qualified in the other   respects prescribed by this article.
NY Rel Corps L § 59-B (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-A - Apostolic Episcopal Parishes or Churches 59-B - Transfer of Property of Extinct Parishes and Churches.

§  59-b.  Transfer  of  property of extinct parishes and churches. The   Metropolitan Synod Apostolic Episcopal Church may decide that  a  parish   or  church  in  connection  with  it or over which it has ecclesiastical   jurisdiction, and to  which  this  article  is  applicable,  has  become   extinct,  if it has failed for two consecutive years next prior thereto,   to maintain religious services according to the discipline, customs  and   usages  of  such  synod,  or  has  had  less than ten resident attending   members making annual or regular contributions towards its support,  and   may  take possession of the temporalities and property belonging to such   church or parish and manage the  same;  or  may,  in  pursuance  of  the   provisions of this chapter relating to the disposition of real property,   sell or dispose of the same and apply the proceeds thereof to any of the   purposes  to  which  the property of such synod is devoted, and it shall   not divert such property  to  any  other  object.  For  the  purpose  of   obtaining  a  record  title to the land and the church edifice, or other   buildings thereon, by such synod, the surviving trustee or  trustees  of   said  extinct  church  or  if  there  be  no  surviving  trustee, then a   surviving member of said extinct church, may,  without  a  consideration   being  paid  therefor  by  such synod, convey to it said land and church   edifice, or other buildings thereon, subject, however, to  an  order  of   the  supreme  or  county  court based upon a petition reciting that said   church has  become  extinct;  the  name  of  its  surviving  trustee  or   trustees;  and  the  names  of  its  members  (who must have given their   consent to the making of said conveyance).  Upon  the  recital  of  said   facts  in  said  petition, the court shall have jurisdiction to grant an   order allowing said conveyance to be made without a  consideration;  and   should there be no surviving members, as well as no surviving trustee of   said  extinct  church,  said  petition may be made by an officer of said   synod, in which event the court, upon the recital of  said  fact,  shall   have  jurisdiction  to  appoint  a  suitable  person  as trustee for the   purpose of making said conveyance.
NY Rel Corps L § 50-AA (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3-B - Parishes or Churches of the Holy Orthodox Church in America 50-AA - Application for Incorporation.

§ 50-aa. Application for incorporation. An unincorporated congregation   of  the Holy Orthodox Church in America, or a congregation acknowledging   the historic apostolic eastern confession and order in this  state,  may   apply  to  the  archbishop  who  is the ecclestiastical administrator of   Metropolitan Synod, Holy Orthodox Church in America for  permission  and   sanction  to incorporate such church. When such permission aforesaid has   been obtained in writing over the signature and seal of such archbishop,   such  church  may  become   an   incorporated   church   by   executing,   acknowledging  and  filing a certificate of incorporation as hereinafter   provided.Any  religious  order,  biblical  seminary  for  the  preparation   of   candidates  for  the ministry, leading to ordination and the granting of   credentials of ecclesiastical degrees of orders in sacred  theology,  or   religious  society  established for evangelical efforts or the relief of   the poor and needy, which is intended to be an auxiliary organization of   the Holy Orthodox Church in America, where a chapel for the  conduct  of   worship  is  provided, shall be deemed a congregation to all intents and   purposes, and may be incorporated  in  the  manner  prescribed  in  this   article as a congregation of the Holy Orthodox Church in America.