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2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 7 - Baptist Churches › 135 - Changing Date of Annual Corporate Meetings.

§  135.  Changing  date  of  annual  corporate  meetings.    An annual
  corporate meeting of an incorporated Baptist church may change the  date
  of  its  annual  meeting  thereafter.  If  the date fixed for the annual
  meeting shall be less than six months after the annual meeting at  which
  such change is made, the next annual meeting shall be held one year from
  the date so fixed. 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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 7 - Baptist Churches › 136 - Changing Number of Trustees.

§  136.  Changing  number of trustees.  An incorporated Baptist church
  may, at an annual corporate meeting, change the number of  its  trustees
  to not less than three, nor more than eighteen, or classify them so that
  the  terms  of  one-third expire each year, provided that notice of such
  intended change or classification be included  in  the  notice  of  such
  annual  corporate  meeting. No such change shall affect the terms of the
  trustees then in office,  and  if  the  change  reduces  the  number  of
  trustees,  elections  shall  not be held to fill vacancies caused by the
  expiration of the terms of trustees until the number of trustees  equals
  the  number  to  which the trustees were reduced. Whenever the number of
  trustees in office is less than the number so determined on,  sufficient
  additional  trustees  shall  be  elected  to make the number of trustees
  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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 7 - Baptist Churches › 137 - Meetings of Trustees.

§  137.  Meetings  of  trustees.    Meetings  of  the  trustees  of an
  incorporated  Baptist  church  shall  be  called  by  giving  at   least
  twenty-four  hours'  notice  thereof  personally  or  by mail to all the
  trustees and such notice may be given by two of the trustees, but by the
  unanimous consent of the trustees a meeting may be held without previous
  notice thereof. A  majority  of  the  whole  number  of  trustees  shall
  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of business at any meeting
  lawfully convened.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 7 - Baptist Churches › 138 - The Creation and Filling of Vacancies Among Trustees of Such Churches.

§  138.  The  creation and filling of vacancies among trustees of such
  churches.  If any trustee of an incorporated Baptist church declines  to
  act,  resigns  or dies, or having been a member or 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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 7 - Baptist Churches › 139 - Control of Trustees by Corporate Meetings of Such Churches; Salary of Minister.

§  139.  Control  of  trustees by corporate meetings of such churches;
  salary of minister.   The trustees of  an  incorporated  Baptist  church
  shall  have no power to settle or remove a minister or to fix his salary
  or, without the consent of a corporate meeting, to  incur  debts  beyond
  what  is necessary for the administration of the temporal affairs of the
  church and for the care of the property of the corporation; or to fix or
  change the time, nature or order of the public or social worship of such
  church. The temporal affairs and property  of  an  incorporated  Baptist
  church  shall  be  administered  by  its trustees in accordance with and
  subject to its lawfully adopted by-laws and to the  general  or  special
  rules, regulations, or resolutions lawfully adopted by the church at its
  annual  or other regular corporate meeting or at any duly called special
  corporate meeting.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 7 - Baptist Churches › 140 - Transfer of Property to Baptist Corporations.

§ 140. Transfer of property to Baptist corporations.  Any incorporated
  Baptist  church,  created  by or existing under the laws of the state of
  New York, having its principal office or place of worship in  the  state
  of  New York, or whose last place of worship was within the state of New
  York, is hereby authorized and empowered, by a vote of two-thirds of its
  qualified voters present and voting therefor,  at  a  meeting  regularly
  called  for  that  purpose,  to transfer and convey any of its property,
  real or personal, which it now has or  may  hereafter  acquire,  to  any
  religious,  charitable  or  missionary  corporation  connected  with the
  Baptist denomination and incorporated by or organized under any  law  or
  laws  of  the state of New York, either solely, or among other purposes,
  to establish or maintain, or to assist in  establishing  or  maintaining
  churches,  schools,  or  mission  stations or to erect, or assist in the
  erection of such buildings as may be necessary for any of such purposes,
  and on or without the  payment  of  any  money  or  other  consideration
  therefor,  and upon such transfer or conveyance being made, the title to
  and the ownership and right of possession of the property so transferred
  and conveyed shall be vested in and conveyed to such grantee;  and  also
  any  membership  corporation  incorporated  by  or  organized  under any
  special or general law or laws of the state of New York, either  solely,
  or  among  other  purposes,  for  religious,  charitable,  missionary or
  educational objects connected  with  or  for  the  aid  of  the  Baptist
  denomination  or  any  church or churches thereof or for the erection or
  maintenance  of  any  building  therefor,  is  hereby   authorized   and
  empowered, by the vote of at least two-thirds of the whole number of its
  directors,  or  by the vote of at least a majority thereof if such whole
  number of directors is twenty  or  more,  at  any  regularly  called  or
  regularly  held meeting of such directors, to transfer and convey any of
  its property, real or personal,  which  it  now  has  or  may  hereafter
  acquire,  to  any  incorporated  Baptist  church within the state of New
  York, and on or without the payment of any money or other  consideration
  therefor,  and upon such transfer or conveyance being made, the title to
  and the ownership and right of possession of the property so transferred
  and conveyed shall be vested in and conveyed to such grantee;  provided,
  however,  that  nothing  herein  contained shall impair or affect in any
  way, any existing claim upon or lien against any property so transferred
  or conveyed, or any action at law or legal proceeding, and  subject,  in
  respect to the amount of property the said grantee may take and hold, to
  the restrictions and limitations of existing laws.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 160 - Notice of Meeting for Incorporation.

§  160.  Notice of meeting for incorporation.  Notice of a meeting for
  the purpose of incorporating an  unincorporated  church  of  the  United
  Church  of  Christ  or Independent 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  have  statedly  worshiped  with  such  church  and  have  regularly
  contributed to its support, according to its usages, for  at  least  one
  year  or  since  it  was formed. 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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 161 - The Meeting for Incorporation.

§   161.   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 have statedly worshiped with such church and have regularly
  contributed  to  its  support, according to its usages, for at least one
  year or since it was formed. At such meeting the presence of a  majority
  of  such  qualified  voters,  in  person, or by proxy duly authorized in
  writing, 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.   The meeting shall  be  called  to
  order  by one of the signers of the call. There shall be elected at such
  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 decide the result of the ballots cast
  on any matter, and shall be the judges  of  the  qualifications  of  the
  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 or nine, and the date, not more than fifteen  months
  thereafter,  on  which the first annual election of the trustees thereof
  shall be held; and it may, by a two-thirds vote, decide that all members
  of the unincorporated church, of full age, in good and regular  standing
  who   have  statedly  worshiped  with  such  church  but  who  have  not
  contributed to the financial support thereof, shall  also  be  qualified
  voters  at such meeting, and that such church members, who, for one year
  next preceding any subsequent corporate  meeting,  shall  have  statedly
  worshiped  with  such  church  and have been members thereof in good and
  regular standing, but have not regularly contributed  to  the  financial
  support  thereof,  shall be qualified voters at such corporate meetings.
  Such meetings 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, 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. Such meeting shall also elect by  ballot
  a clerk of the corporation, who shall hold his office until the close of
  the next annual meeting.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 162 - The Certificate of Incorporation.

§  162. 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  trustees  thereof,  the  names  of  the  persons  elected as
  trustees, 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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 163 - Time, Place and Notice of Corporate Meetings.

§  163.  Time,  place  and  notice of corporate meetings.   The annual
  corporate meeting of every church incorporated under this article  shall
  be  held  at  the time and place fixed by its by-laws, or if no time and
  place be so fixed, then at a time and place to be  first  fixed  by  its
  trustees,  but  to  be  changed  only  by  a by-law adopted at an annual
  meeting. 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  trustees  thereof at a regular meeting of the church for public
  worship, on  the  two  successive  Sundays  immediately  preceding  such
  meeting.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 164 - Organization and Conduct of Corporate Meetings; Qualifications of Voters.

§  164. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications
  of voters.  At every corporate meeting of a church to which this article
  is applicable the following persons, and no others  shall  be  qualified
  voters,  to  wit:   all persons who are then members in good and regular
  standing of such church by admission into full communion  or  membership
  therewith  in  accordance with the by-laws thereof, provided that if the
  by-laws so provide, persons who have statedly worshiped with such church
  and have regularly contributed to its financial  support  for  not  less
  than one year preceding such meeting shall also be qualified voters.
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, except that by-laws can  be  adopted  or  amended
  only  by  a two-thirds vote. The clerk of the corporation shall call the
  meeting to order; and under his supervision the  qualified  voters  then
  present  shall choose a presiding officer 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  judges  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.  A  clerk  of  the  corporation shall be elected by ballot, who
  shall hold office until the closing of  the  next  annual  meeting,  and
  until his successor shall be elected.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 165 - Changing Date of Annual Corporate Meetings.

§  165.  Changing  date  of  annual  corporate  meetings.    An annual
  corporate meeting of any church  incorporated  under  this  article  may
  change  the  date  of its subsequent annual meetings.  If the date fixed
  for the annual meeting shall be less than six months  after  the  annual
  meeting  at  which such change is made, the next annual meeting shall be
  held one year from the date so fixed. 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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 166 - Changing Number of Trustees.

§ 166. Changing number of trustees.  Any such incorporated church may,
  at  an  annual  corporate  meeting, change the number of its trustees to
  three, six, nine, twelve or fifteen, classifying them so that the  terms
  of  one-third  expire  each  year, provided that notice of such intended
  change be included in the notice of such annual  corporate  meeting.  No
  such  change  shall affect the terms of the trustees then in office; and
  if the change reduces the number of trustees,  elections  shall  not  be
  held  to  fill  the  vacancies  caused by the expiration of the terms of
  trustees, until the number of trustees equals the number  to  which  the
  trustees  were  reduced.    Whenever the number of trustees in office is
  less than the number so determined on,  sufficient  additional  trustees
  shall  be  elected to make the number of trustees 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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 167 - Meetings of Trustees.

§  167.  Meetings  of trustees.   Meetings of the trustees of any such
  incorporated church shall be  called  by  giving  at  least  twenty-four
  hours'  notice  thereof  personally  or by mail to all the trustees; and
  such notice may be given by two of the trustees; but  by  the  unanimous
  consent  of  the trustees, a meeting may be held without previous notice
  thereof. A majority of the whole number of trustees shall  constitute  a
  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business,  at  any  meeting  lawfully
  convened.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 168 - Vacancies Among Trustees.

§  168.  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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 169 - Limitation of Powers of Trustees.

§  169.  Limitation  of powers of trustees.   The trustees of any such
  incorporated church shall have no power to  call,  settle  or  remove  a
  minister  or  to  fix his salary, nor without the consent of a corporate
  meeting, to incur debts, beyond what is necessary for the administration
  of the temporal affairs of the church and for the care of  the  property
  of the corporation; or to fix or change the time, nature or order of the
  public or social worship of such church.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 170 - Election and Salary of Ministers.

§  170.  Election  and salary of ministers.  The ministers of any such
  church 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   specially   called   for   that  purpose,  in  the  manner
  hereinbefore provided for the call of special  meetings;  and  any  such
  corporation may, by its by-laws, make the call, settlement or removal of
  its  ministers  dependent  upon  a concurrent vote of the unincorporated
  church connected with such corporation; and in that case the concurrence
  of a majority of the members of such unincorporated church, present  and
  voting at a meeting thereof, called for that purpose, shall be necessary
  to the call, settlement or removal of such ministers.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 171 - Transfer of Property.

§  171.  Transfer  of  property. Any incorporated church of the United
  Church of Christ and any incorporated  Congregational  Christian  church
  which  is  a  member  of the New York Conference of the United Church of
  Christ, created by or existing under the laws of the state of New  York,
  having  its  principal  office  or  place of worship in the state of New
  York, or whose last place of worship was within the state of  New  York,
  is hereby authorized and empowered, by the concurrent vote of two-thirds
  of  its  qualified  voters  present  and  voting  therefor, at a meeting
  regularly called  for  that  purpose,  and  of  two-thirds  of  all  its
  trustees,  to direct the transfer and conveyance of any of its property,
  real or personal, which it now has or  may  hereafter  acquire,  to  any
  religious,  charitable  or  missionary  corporation  connected  with the
  United Church of Christ and incorporated by or organized under  any  law
  of  the  state  of  New York, either solely, or among other purposes, to
  establish or maintain, or  to  assist  in  establishing  or  maintaining
  churches,  schools  or  mission  stations,  or to erect or assist in the
  erection of such buildings as may be necessary for any of such purposes,
  with or  without  the  payment  of  any  money  or  other  consideration
  therefor; and upon such concurrent votes being given, the trustees shall
  execute  such  transfer or conveyance; and upon the same being made, the
  title to and the ownership and right of possession of  the  property  so
  transferred  and  conveyed  shall  be  vested  in  and  conveyed to such
  grantee; provided, however, that nothing herein contained  shall  impair
  or  affect  in  any  way  any  existing  claim  upon or lien against any
  property so transferred or conveyed, or  any  action  at  law  or  legal
  proceeding; and such transfer shall be subject, in respect to the amount
  of  property the said grantee may take and hold, to the restrictions and
  limitations of all laws then in force.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches › 172 - Application of This Article.

§  172.  Application  of  this  article.  This article applies only to
  churches of  the  United  Church  of  Christ,  Congregational  Christian
  churches,  whether  or  not  part  of  the  United Church of Christ, and
  Independent churches.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8-A - Churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of America › 169-A - Application for Incorporation.

§  169-a. Application for incorporation. Any Ukrainian Orthodox church
  of the Greek rite may become incorporated in this state as a  church  of
  the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America by executing, acknowledging and
  filing a certificate of incorporation as hereinafter provided.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8-A - Churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of America › 169-B - Notice of Meeting for Incorporation and Provisions Governing Meetings for Incorporation.

§  169-b. Notice of meeting for incorporation and provisions governing
  meetings for incorporation. 1. Notice of a meeting for  the  purpose  of
  incorporating  an  unincorporated Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Greek
  rite 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 a church
  and selecting a name therefor and electing trustees thereof.
2.  Such  notice  shall  be publicly read at a regular service of such
  unincorporated church on a Sunday next preceding such meeting and a copy
  of such notice shall be sent by mail postpaid at least ten days prior to
  the date fixed for such meeting to each member of such  church  in  good
  and  regular  standing  at his last known address as same appears in the
  church record.
3. At the meeting for incorporation held in pursuance of such  notice,
  all  persons  of  full  age,  who  are  then members in good and regular
  standing of such  church,  shall  be  qualified  voters.  All  the  duly
  qualified  voters present at such meeting, at least six in number, shall
  constitute a quorum, and all matters or questions shall be decided by  a
  majority of the qualified voters voting thereon.
4.  There  shall  be elected at such meeting from the qualified voters
  then present a presiding officer and a clerk to keep the records of  the
  proceedings  of  the  meeting.  The  presiding  officer shall decide the
  results of the votes cast on any matter and shall be the  judge  of  the
  qualifications of the voters.
5.  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  trustees thereof which shall be
  either three, five or seven, and the date, not more than fifteen  months
  thereafter,  on which the first annual election of the trustees shall be
  held.
6. Such meeting shall thereupon elect from the  persons  qualified  to
  vote  thereat  the trustees who shall hold office until the first annual
  election of the trustees  thereafter,  or  until  their  successors  are
  elected and take office.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8-A - Churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of America › 169-C - Certification of Incorporation.

§  169-c.  Certification of incorporation. 1. The presiding officer of
such meeting and at least two other persons present and  voting  thereat
shall execute and acknowledge a certificate of incorporation which shall
set forth the following:
(a) The name of the proposed corporation.
(b) The number of trustees thereof.
(c) The names of the trustees elected for the first year.
(d)  The county and town, city or village in which the principal place
of worship is or is intended to be located.
(e) The date of its annual meeting for the election of trustees.
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  of
incorporation.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8-A - Churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of America › 169-D - Government; Powers and Duties of the Trustees.

§  169-d.  Government;  powers  and  duties of the trustees. 1.  Every
  Ukrainian Orthodox church incorporated pursuant to  this  article  shall
  recognize  and  be  subject  to  the  jurisdiction of the duly appointed
  bishop or archbishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America, or his
  lawful successor in office, and shall conform to and  adopt  the  faith,
  doctrine, discipline, canons and constitution of the said church.
2.  The  trustees  of  every  such  incorporated church shall have the
  custody and control of all the  temporalities  and  property,  real  and
  personal,  belonging  to the corporation and the revenues therefrom, and
  shall administer the same strictly in accordance with the by-laws of the
  corporation and the rules,  regulations  and  usages  of  the  governing
  diocesan council of the said Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8-A - Churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of America › 169-E - Reincorporation of Existing Corporations.

§  169-e.  Reincorporation  of  existing  corporations.  Any Ukrainian
  Orthodox church of the Greek rite heretofore  incorporated,  other  than
  those incorporated under the provisions of article five of the religious
  corporations  law,  may  reincorporate  under  the  provisions  of  this
  article, by filing in the county clerk's office 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 act, the corporate  name  by  which  such  church
  shall  be  known,  the  county, town, city or village where its place of
  worship is or is intended to be located, and the number and the names of
  the trustees who are to hold office until the  next  annual  meeting  of
  said  corporation.  If  the  bishop  or archbishop having ecclesiastical
  jurisdiction over such church is not one of  the  trustees  signing  the
  certificate  of  reincorporation,  such  certificate  shall not be valid
  until said bishop or archbishop has given his assent in writing to  such
  reincorporation  and  the  same  is  made  a  part  of  the certificate.
  Immediately upon the filing of such certificate all the right, title and
  interest of such organization or corporation  in  any  estate,  real  or
  personal,  shall,  with  all  franchise and charter rights, be vested in
  said body corporate and politic  so  created  under  this  act  and  the
  original incorporation of such organization shall be null and void.
The  incorporation of a new church or reincorporation of an old church
  under this article shall not be valid until the same has  been  approved
  by a justice of the supreme court.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8-B - Churches of the Holy Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in Exile › 175 - Application for Incorporation.

§  175.  Application  for incorporation. Any Ukrainian Orthodox church
  may become incorporated in this state as a church of the Holy  Ukrainian
  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church  in Exile by executing, acknowledging and
  filing a certificate of incorporation as hereinafter provided.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8-B - Churches of the Holy Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in Exile › 176 - Notice of Meeting for Incorporation and Provisions Governing Meetings for Incorporation.

§  176.  Notice  of meeting for incorporation and provisions governing
  meetings for incorporation. 1. Notice of a meeting for  the  purpose  of
  incorporating  an  unincorporated  Ukrainian  Orthodox church under this
  article 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 a
  church and selecting a name therefor and electing trustees thereof.
2. Such notice shall be publicly read at a  regular  service  of  such
  unincorporated church on a Sunday next preceding such meeting and a copy
  of such notice shall be sent by mail postpaid at least ten days prior to
  the  date  fixed  for such meeting to each member of such church in good
  and regular standing at his last known address as same  appears  in  the
  church record.
3.  At the meeting for incorporation held in pursuance of such notice,
  all persons of full age, who  are  then  members  in  good  and  regular
  standing  of  such  church,  shall  be  qualified  voters.  All the duly
  qualified voters present at such meeting, at least six in number,  shall
  constitute  a quorum, and all matters or questions shall be decided by a
  majority of the qualified voters voting thereon.
4. There shall be elected at such meeting from  the  qualified  voters
  then  present a presiding officer and a clerk to keep the records of the
  proceedings of the meeting.  The  presiding  officer  shall  decide  the
  results  of  the  votes cast on any matter and shall be the judge of the
  qualifications of the voters.
5. 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  trustees  thereof  which  shall  be
  either  three, five or seven, and the date, not more than fifteen months
  thereafter, on which the first annual election of the trustees shall  be
  held.
6.  Such  meeting  shall thereupon elect from the persons qualified to
  vote thereat the trustees who shall hold office until the  first  annual
  election  of  the  trustees  thereafter,  or  until their successors are
  elected and take office.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8-B - Churches of the Holy Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in Exile › 177 - Certificate of Incorporation.

§  177. Certificate of incorporation. 1. The presiding officer of such
meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat  shall
execute  and  acknowledge a certificate of incorporation which shall set
forth the following:
(a) The name of the proposed corporation.
(b) The number of trustees thereof.
(c) The names of the trustees elected for the first year.
(d) The county and town, city or village in which the principal  place
of worship is or is intended to be located.
(e) The date of its annual meeting for the election of trustees.
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 of
incorporation.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8-B - Churches of the Holy Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in Exile › 178 - Government; Powers and Duties of the Trustees.

§  178.  Government;  powers  and  duties  of  the  trustees. 1. Every
  Ukrainian Orthodox church incorporated pursuant to  this  article  shall
  recognize  and  be  subject  to  the  jurisdiction of the duly appointed
  bishop or archbishop of the Holy Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox  Church
  in  Exile,  or  his lawful successor in office, and shall conform to and
  adopt the faith, doctrine, discipline, canons and  constitution  of  the
  said church.
2.  The  trustees  of  every  such  incorporated church shall have the
  custody and control of all the  temporalities  and  property,  real  and
  personal,  belonging  to the corporation and the revenues therefrom, and
  shall administer the same strictly in accordance with the by-laws of the
  corporation and the rules,  regulations  and  usages  of  the  governing
  diocesan council of the said Holy Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church
  in Exile.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 8-B - Churches of the Holy Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in Exile › 179 - Reincorporation of Existing Corporations.

§   179.  Reincorporation  of  existing  corporations.  Any  Ukrainian
  Orthodox church heretofore incorporated, other than  those  incorporated
  under  the provisions of article five of the religious corporations law,
  may reincorporate under the provisions of this article, by filing in the
  county clerk's office 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  place of worship is or is
  intended to be located, and the number and the names of the trustees who
  are to hold office until the next annual meeting of said corporation. If
  the bishop or archbishop having ecclesiastical  jurisdiction  over  such
  church   is   not  one  of  the  trustees  signing  the  certificate  of
  reincorporation, such certificate shall not be valid until  said  bishop
  or  archbishop  has  given his assent in writing to such reincorporation
  and the same is made a part of the  certificate.  Immediately  upon  the
  filing  of  such  certificate  all the right, title and interest of such
  organization or corporation in any estate, real or personal, shall, with
  all franchise and charter rights, be vested in said body  corporate  and
  politic  so created under this article and the original incorporation of
  such organization shall be null and void.
The incorporation of a new church or reincorporation of an old  church
  under  this  article shall not be valid until the same has been approved
  by a justice of the supreme court.