2023 New York Laws › BNK - Banking › Article 16 - General Provisions Applicable to Banking Non-Stock Corporations › 9003 - Certificates; Requirements, Signing, Filing, Effectiveness.

§ 9003. Certificates; requirements, signing, filing, effectiveness. 1.
  Every  certificate  or  other  instrument relating to a corporation or a
  foreign corporation which is delivered to the superintendent for  filing
  under  this  chapter  shall  be in the English language, except that the
  corporate name may be in another language if written in English  letters
  or characters.
2.  Whenever  such  instrument is required to set forth an address, it
  shall include the street and number,  or  other  particular  description
  instead  of a street and number. This requirement does not apply where a
  post office address is specified to be set forth.
3. Whenever such instrument is required to set forth the date when  an
  organization  certificate  was filed by the superintendent, the original
  organization certificate is meant.
4. Every such instrument required under this chapter to be signed  and
  delivered  to  the  superintendent,  except as otherwise provided in the
  section providing for such instrument, shall be signed either (a) by the
  holders of all outstanding shares entitled to vote thereon,  or  (b)  by
  the  chairman  of  the board, the president or vice president and by the
  secretary or an assistant secretary or, in the  case  of  a  corporation
  which  does  not  have  a  secretary  or  an assistant secretary, by the
  cashier or an assistant cashier, or (c) if there are no  such  officers,
  by  a  majority  of the directors or such directors as are designated by
  the majority of the directors in office, or (d) if  also  there  are  no
  directors,  by  the  holders,  or  such of them as are designated by the
  holders of record of a majority of all outstanding  shares  entitled  to
  vote  thereon,  or  (e)  if also there is no shareholder of record, by a
  subscriber for shares  whose  subscription  has  been  accepted  or  his
  successor  in  interest,  or  (f) if also no subscription for shares has
  been accepted, by an incorporator. His name and the  capacity  in  which
  any person signs such instrument shall be stated beneath or opposite his
  signature.  The  person  signing  such  instrument, or, if more than one
  person signs it, one of such persons shall  verify  or  acknowledge  the
  instrument if required by the section providing for such instrument.
5.  No  such  instrument  shall be filed unless it shall have endorsed
  thereon  the  approval  of  the  superintendent.   No   certificate   of
  authentication  or  conformity  or  other  proof  shall be required with
  respect to any verification, oath or acknowledgment  of  any  instrument
  delivered   to   the   superintendent   under   this  chapter,  if  such
  verification, oath or acknowledgment purports to have been made before a
  notary public, or person performing the equivalent function, of  one  of
  the  states,  or  any  subdivision  thereof, of the United States or the
  District of Columbia.
6. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, such instrument shall
  become effective upon the filing thereof by the superintendent.