2023 New York Laws › BNK - Banking › Article 15 - General Provisions Applicable to Banking Stock Corporations, Limited Liability Investment Companies, and Limited Liability Trust Companies › Title 1 - Definitions; Application; Certificates; Miscellaneous › 1003 - Certificates; Requirements, Signing, Filing, Effectiveness.

§ 1003. Certificates; requirements, signing, filing, effectiveness. 1.
  Every  certificate  or  other  instrument  relating  to a corporation or
  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. This requirement shall be  satisfied,
  in  the  case  of a corporation created by special act, by setting forth
  the chapter number and year of passage of such act.
4. Every such instrument required under this chapter to be signed  and
  delivered  to the superintendent shall, except as otherwise specified in
  the section providing for such instrument, 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 a 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 a
  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 stockholder 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 or anyone acting in  his  stead  under
  subdivision  three  of  section  six  thousand fifteen. 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.
7.  The superintendent shall make, certify and transmit a copy of each
  such instrument to the clerk of the county in which the  office  of  the
  corporation  or  foreign corporation is or is to be located.  The county
  clerk shall file and index such copy.