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2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 3-B - Parishes or Churches of the Holy Orthodox Church in America › 50-KK - Rector; Vicar; Ministers; Their Appointment, Removal and Compensation.

§  50-kk.  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
  archbishop who is the ecclesiastical administrator of Metropolitan Synod
  Holy Orthodox Church in America, given in writing. A rector or vicar  or
  other  minister  so  called,  with  the  sanction  of  the archbishop 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 Holy Orthodox Church in America, subject to  the
  archbishop and Metropolitan Synod.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 3-B - Parishes or Churches of the Holy Orthodox Church in America › 50-LL - Additional Qualifications of Voters at Annual and Special Corporate Meetings.

§  50-ll.  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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 3-B - Parishes or Churches of the Holy Orthodox Church in America › 50-MM - Transfer of Property of Extinct Parishes and Churches.

§  50-mm.  Transfer  of property of extinct parishes and churches. The
  Metropolitan Synod Holy Orthodox Church in America  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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 3-C - Parishes or Churches of the American Patriarchal Orthodox Church › 51-A - Application for Incorporation.

§  51-a. 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 ecclesiastical administrator of American Patriarchal Synod,
  Holy Orthodox 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 patriarch, 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 of the American Patriarchate,  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 American Patriarchal
  Orthodox Church.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 3-C - Parishes or Churches of the American Patriarchal Orthodox Church › 52-A - Notice of Meeting for Incorporation.

§ 52-a. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice of meeting for the
  purpose  of  incorporating  an  unincorporated  parish  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  archbishop  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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 3-C - Parishes or Churches of the American Patriarchal Orthodox Church › 53-A - Provisions Governing Meetings for Incorporation.

§  53-a.  Provisions  governing  meetings for incorporation. 1. If the
meeting shall decide that such unincorporated  church  shall  become  an
incorporated church or congregation of the American Patriarchal Orthodox
Church,  a  certificate  of incorporation therefor shall be executed and
acknowledged by the archbishop who is the ecclesiastical  administrator,
the vicar-general and the chancellor of Patriarchal Synod, 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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 3-C - Parishes or Churches of the American Patriarchal Orthodox Church › 54-A - Rector; Vicar; Ministers; Their Appointment, Removal and Compensation.

§  54-a.  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
  ecclesiastical administrator of Patriarchal Synod, given in writing.   A
  rector  or  vicar  or other minister so called, with the sanction of the
  archbishop 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  American  Patriarchal  Orthodox
  Church, subject to the patriarch.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 4 - Presbyterian Churches › 61 - Creation and Termination of Pastoral Relation.

§  61.  Creation  and termination of pastoral relation.  The election,
  calling,  settlement,  installation,  dismissal,  removal,  translation,
  constituting  or  dissolving  of  the  pastoral  relation,  or fixing or
  changing of the salary of a minister or pastor of a Presbyterian  church
  in  connection  with  the  General  Assembly  of the Presbyterian Church
  (U.S.A.), or taking any action for or toward any such purpose,  and  the
  calling  and  conduct  of  a  meeting  of  any  such church for any such
  purpose, and the qualification of voters at any such  meeting,  are  not
  authorized  or regulated or controlled by any provision of this chapter,
  but the same shall be in all respects,  done,  and  regulated,  and  any
  meeting  therefor  called, conducted, and controlled, only in accordance
  with the constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 4 - Presbyterian Churches › 62 - Worship.

§  62. Worship.  Nothing in this chapter contained shall authorize the
  fixing or changing of the times, nature or order of  public  worship  of
  any  particular Presbyterian church in any other manner, or by any other
  authority than in the manner  and  by  the  authority  provided  in  the
  constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 4 - Presbyterian Churches › 65 - Corporate Meetings.

§  65.  Corporate meetings.   1. In every incorporated church to which
  this article applies and in which  the  trustees  thereof  as  such  are
  elective,  there  shall be held an annual corporate meeting. Such annual
  corporate meeting of every incorporated church to which this article  is
  applicable  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 and in accordance with the
  constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
2. A special corporate meeting of any such church  may  be  called  by
  trustees  thereof  on  their  own  motion,  and must be so called on the
  written request of at least ten qualified voters of such church,  or  on
  the  request  of  the  session  thereof,  and shall be called and notice
  thereof given in the same manner as for an annual corporate meeting.
3. The trustees shall cause notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  its
  corporate  meetings  to  be given at a regular meeting of the church for
  public worship, at morning service, if such service be held, on each  of
  the  two  successive  Sundays  next  preceding  such  meeting, if public
  worship be had thereon, or otherwise on each of two days, at  least  one
  week apart, next preceding such meeting; or if no such public worship be
  held  during  such  period,  by  conspicuously  posting  such notice, in
  writing, upon the outer entrance to the principal place  of  worship  of
  such  church.  Such notice shall be given by the minister of the church,
  if there be one, or by the officiating minister  thereof,  if  there  be
  one,  or  by  any officer of such church. If such notice be of an annual
  corporate meeting it shall specify  the  names  of  the  trustees  whose
  successors  are  to  be  elected thereat; if such notice be of a special
  corporate meeting, it  shall  specify  the  particular  business  to  be
  transacted  thereat,  and  no other business shall be transacted at such
  special corporate meeting.
4. Whenever in any  such  incorporated  church,  by  virtue  of  their
  offices, any of the spiritual officers thereof are the trustees thereof,
  they  may  in  their  discretion call special corporate meetings of such
  incorporated church; and in such case such meetings shall be  called  by
  the  same  notice  published  or  posted  in  the  same manner as herein
  provided for the notice of such a meeting by  the  trustees  of  such  a
  church  elected  as such; and in each such case such notice must specify
  the particular business to be transacted at such meeting, and  no  other
  business shall be transacted at such special corporate meeting.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 4 - Presbyterian Churches › 66 - Organization and Conduct of Corporate Meetings; Qualifications of Voters Thereat.

§  66.  Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications
  of voters thereat. 1. At a corporate meeting of an  incorporated  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 and membership therewith, in accordance with the  constitution
  of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
2.  The presence at any corporate meeting of an incorporated church of
  at least six communicant members of  full  age  shall  be  necessary  to
  constitute  a  quorum.  The  action  of  the  meeting upon any matter or
  question shall be decided by a majority of the qualified voters present.
3. At any corporate meeting of an incorporated church  to  which  this
  article  is  applicable,  the  pastor  of  such  church, the officiating
  minister thereof, or the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  shall
  preside thereat.
4.  Nothing  contained  in  this  article  shall prevent the qualified
  voters at any meeting held pursuant to  this  article  from  choosing  a
  person  to  preside at any corporate meeting of any incorporated church,
  other than the person or officer designated in this article  to  preside
  thereat,  and  when  such other person shall be chosen he shall exercise
  all the powers in this article conferred upon the presiding  officer  of
  such meeting.
5.  The  presiding  officer  of  a corporate meeting shall receive the
  votes, be the judge of the qualifications of  voters,  and  declare  the
  result of the votes cast on any matter. The polls of an annual corporate
  meeting  shall  continue  open  until all qualified voters present shall
  have had a full opportunity to vote.
6. At each annual corporate meeting successors to those trustees whose
  terms of office then expire shall be elected from the  qualified  voters
  by  ballot  for  a  term  of  three years thereafter. The nomination and
  election of trustees shall be conducted as provided in the  constitution
  of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 4 - Presbyterian Churches › 67 - Changing Date of Annual Corporate Meetings.

§ 67. Changing date of annual corporate meetings.  An annual corporate
  meeting  of  an incorporated church to which this article is applicable,
  may change the date of its annual meeting thereafter. If such date 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 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 4 - Presbyterian Churches › 68 - Changing Number of Trustees.

§  68.  Changing  number  of trustees. An incorporated church to which
  this article is applicable, may, at an annual corporate meeting,  change
  the  number  of  its  trustees  to  three,  six,  nine, twelve, fifteen,
  eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four, and classify them so that the terms
  of one-third expire each year. No such change shall affect the terms  of
  the  trustees  then  in  office, and if the change reduces the number of
  trustees it shall not take effect until the  number  of  trustees  whose
  terms of office continue for one or more years after an annual election,
  is less than the number determined upon. Whenever the number of trustees
  so holding over is less than the number so determined on, trustees shall
  be  elected  in addition to those so holding over sufficient to make the
  number of  trustees  for  the  ensuing  year  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 4 - Presbyterian Churches › 69 - Trustees, Their Meetings, Vacancies and Filling Thereof, Their Powers.

§  69.  Trustees, their meetings, vacancies and filling thereof, their
  powers.   1. Two trustees of  an  incorporated  church,  to  which  this
  article  is applicable, may call a meeting of such trustees by giving at
  least twenty-four hours' notice thereof personally or  by  mail  to  the
  other  trustees.  A  majority  of  the  trustees lawfully convened shall
  constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. In case  of  a  tie
  vote at a meeting of the trustees, the presiding officer of such meeting
  shall,  notwithstanding  he  has  voted once, have an additional casting
  vote.
2. If any trustee of an incorporated church to which this  article  is
  applicable,  declines  to  act,  resigns  or  dies, or ceases to be such
  member, his office shall be vacant. Such vacancy may be filled at a duly
  called special meeting of the corporation.
3. Subject to the  authority  of  the  session,  the  trustees  of  an
  incorporated  church  to which this article is applicable shall have the
  custody and control of all the temporalities and property  belonging  to
  the  corporation  and  of  the  revenues  from  such  property and shall
  administer  the  same  in  accordance  with  the  constitution  of   the
  Presbyterian  Church  (U.S.A.),  and with the provisions of law relating
  thereto, for the support and maintenance of the church  corporation  or,
  providing  the  members  thereof at a corporate meeting thereof shall so
  authorize, of some  religious,  charitable,  benevolent  or  educational
  object  conducted  by  such  church  or  connected  with  it or with the
  denomination with which it is connected, and they  shall  not  use  such
  property  or  revenue for any other purpose or divert the same from such
  uses.
4. The words "temporalities," "property," "revenue" and "revenues," as
  used in this section,  or  elsewhere  in  this  article,  shall  not  be
  construed  to  include the contributions in such church or elsewhere for
  benevolent or other purposes, which shall be contributed and paid to the
  pastor or pastors, ruling elders, the church session, or the deacons  of
  any  such  church,  either  in  the  church services or otherwise, to be
  distributed, or used, or administered, by them, or  any,  or  either  of
  them,  nor  to any funds or property devised, bequeathed or contributed,
  to be administered or expended by such pastor or pastors, ruling elders,
  church session, deacons or other spiritual officers of such church.
5. The trustees of any such church shall have no  power,  without  the
  consent  of a corporate meeting, to incur debts beyond what is necessary
  for the care of the property of the corporation.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 5 - Roman Catholic Churches › 90 - Incorporation of Roman Catholic Churches.

§  90.  Incorporation  of Roman Catholic churches.   An unincorporated
  Roman Catholic church in this state may become incorporated as a  church
  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.
A certificate of incorporation of  an  unincorporated  Roman  Catholic
  church  shall  be  executed  and  acknowledged  by  the  Roman  Catholic
  archbishop or bishop, and the vicar-general of the diocese in which  its
  place of worship is, and by the rector of the church, and by two laymen,
  members  of such church who shall be selected by such officials, or by a
  majority of such officials.
On filing such certificate such church shall be a corporation  by  the
  name stated in the certificate.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 5 - Roman Catholic Churches › 91 - Government of Incorporated Roman Catholic Churches.

§  91.  Government  of  incorporated  Roman  Catholic  churches.   The
  archbishop or bishop and the vicar-general of the diocese to  which  any
  incorporated  Roman  Catholic church belongs, the rector of such church,
  and their successors in office shall, by virtue  of  their  offices,  be
  trustees  of  such  church.  Two  laymen,  members  of such incorporated
  church, selected by such officers or by a majority of them,  shall  also
  be  trustees  of  such  incorporated  church, and such officers and such
  laymen trustees shall together constitute the board of trustees thereof.
  The  two  laymen  signing  the  certificate  of  incorporation   of   an
  incorporated  Roman  Catholic  church  shall  be the two laymen trustees
  thereof during the first year of its corporate existence.  The  term  of
  office  of  the  two  laymen  trustees of an incorporated Roman Catholic
  church shall be one year. Whenever the office of any such layman trustee
  shall become vacant by expiration of term of office  or  otherwise,  his
  successor  shall  be  appointed  from  members  of  the  church, by such
  officers or a majority of them. No act or proceeding of the trustees  of
  any  such incorporated church shall be valid without the sanction of the
  archbishop or bishop of the diocese to which such church belongs, or  in
  case  of  their absence or inability to act, without the sanction of the
  vicar-general or of the administrator of such diocese.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 5 - Roman Catholic Churches › 92 - Division of Roman Catholic Parish; Disposition of Property.

§  92.  Division  of  Roman  Catholic parish; disposition of property.
  Wherever a Roman Catholic parish has been heretofore or shall  hereafter
  be  duly  divided  by the Roman Catholic bishop having jurisdiction over
  said parish, and the original Roman Catholic church corporation is given
  one part of the old parish, and a new or second  Roman  Catholic  church
  corporation  is  given  the  remaining  part  of  the old parish, and it
  further appears that by reason of the said division the  original  Roman
  Catholic  church corporation holds title to real property situate within
  the part of the old parish that was given to the  new  or  second  Roman
  Catholic  church corporation, then the said Roman Catholic bishop or his
  successor shall have the right and power, of himself,  independently  of
  any  action or consent on the part of the trustees of the original Roman
  Catholic church corporation, to transfer the  title  of  the  said  real
  property,  with  or  without  valuable consideration, to the said new or
  second Roman Catholic church corporation. Said transfer shall be made by
  the said Roman Catholic bishop or his successor  after  having  complied
  with the requirements of this chapter in the same manner as the trustees
  of  any  religious  corporation  are  compelled  to  do  before making a
  transfer of church property. If a valuable consideration is paid for the
  transfer the same shall be received by the said Roman Catholic bishop or
  his successor and distributed between the said original  Roman  Catholic
  church   corporation  and  the  new  or  second  Roman  Catholic  church
  corporation in such proportions as in the discretion of the said  bishop
  or his successor may seem proper.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 5-A - Christian Orthodox Catholic Churches of the Eastern Confession › 95 - Incorporation of Christian Orthodox Catholic Churches of the Eastern Confession.

§  95.  Incorporation  of  Christian Orthodox Catholic churches of the
  Eastern Confession. An unincorporated Christian Orthodox Catholic church
  of the Eastern Confession in this state may  become  incorporated  as  a
  church   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.
A certificate of incorporation of an unincorporated Christian Orthodox
  Catholic  church  of  the  Eastern  Confession  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.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 5-A - Christian Orthodox Catholic Churches of the Eastern Confession › 96 - Government of Incorporated Christian Orthodox Catholic Churches of the Eastern Confession.

§  96. Government of incorporated Christian Orthodox Catholic churches
  of the Eastern Confession. The six lay  members  of  every  incorporated
  Christian  Orthodox  Catholic  church  of the Eastern Confession in this
  state,  incorporated  on  or  after  April   ninth,   nineteen   hundred
  twenty-three,  signing  the certificate of incorporation, and the rector
  shall be the trustees of such church for the first year or  until  their
  successors  are  selected according to the by-laws of such church or the
  rules and usages of the denomination to which such church  belongs.  The
  trustees  of every such church incorporated before April ninth, nineteen
  hundred twenty-three, shall consist of the rector and such other persons
  as may be selected according to the by-laws of such church or the  rules
  and usages of the denomination to which such church belongs.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 5-B - Ruthenian Greek Catholic Churches. › 100 - Incorporation of Ruthenian Greek Catholic Churches.

§   100.  Incorporation  of  Ruthenian  Greek  Catholic  churches.  An
  unincorporated Ruthenian Greek Catholic church of the Greek rite in this
  state may become incorporated as a church  by  executing,  acknowledging
  and filing a certificate of incorporation, stating the corporate name by
  which  said church shall be known, and the county, town, city or village
  where its principal place of worship is or is intended to be located.
A certificate of incorporation of an  unincorporated  Ruthenian  Greek
  Catholic  church  shall  be  executed  and acknowledged by the Ruthenian
  Catholic bishop, appointed by the pope of Rome to have supervision  over
  Ruthenian  Catholics  of the Greek rite in the United States, or in case
  of a vacancy in the office of bishop by reason of death, resignation  or
  otherwise, the Ruthenian administrator of the Ruthenian Catholic diocese
  duly  appointed  and  recognized by the apostolic delegate in the United
  States, and the chancellor of the diocese in which its place of  worship
  is,  and  by the pastor of the church and by two laymen, members of such
  church, who shall be elected by such officers or by a majority  of  such
  officers. On filing such certificate, said church shall be a corporation
  by the name stated in the certificate.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 5-B - Ruthenian Greek Catholic Churches. › 101 - Government of Incorporated Ruthenian Greek Catholic Churches.

§  101.  Government of incorporated Ruthenian Greek Catholic churches.
  The bishop, or in case of vacancy in the office of the bishop, then  the
  administrator,  the  chancellor of the diocese to which any incorporated
  Ruthenian Greek Catholic church belongs, together  with  the  pastor  of
  said church, shall by virtue of their office be trustees of such church;
  two  laymen  members  of  such  incorporated  church  selected  by  such
  officers, or by a majority of them,  shall  also  be  trustees  of  such
  incorporated  church, and such officers, pastor and such laymen trustees
  shall together constitute the board of trustees thereof.  The two laymen
  signing the certificate of incorporation of a Ruthenian  Greek  Catholic
  church shall be the two laymen trustees thereof during the first year of
  its  corporate  existence. The term of office of the two laymen trustees
  of an incorporated Ruthenian Greek Catholic church shall  be  one  year.
  Whenever  the  office  of any such layman trustee shall become vacant by
  expiration of term  of  office  or  otherwise  his  successor  shall  be
  appointed  from  members of the church by such officers or a majority of
  them. No act or proceeding of the  trustees  of  any  such  incorporated
  church shall be valid without the sanction or approval in writing of the
  bishop  of  the diocese to which said church belongs, or, in case of his
  absence  or  disability  to  act,  of  his  vicar-general  or   of   the
  administrator of such diocese.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 5-B - Ruthenian Greek Catholic Churches. › 102 - Transfer of Other Religious Organizations to Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church; Disposition of Property.

§  102.  Transfer  of other religious organizations to Ruthenian Greek
  Catholic church; disposition of property. Any religious organization  or
  organizations incorporated under and by virtue of any law of this state,
  whether  incorporated  under  article five of the religious corporations
  law, or otherwise, shall be and they are hereby authorized  to  organize
  under  the provisions of this act relating to incorporation of Ruthenian
  Greek Catholic churches of the Greek rite, and  upon  the  filing  of  a
  certificate to be signed by the trustees of such existing association or
  organization  or  a majority of them, consenting to such organization or
  incorporation, under this act, all the right, title and interest of such
  association or corporation in any estate, real or personal, shall,  with
  all  franchises and charter rights, be vested in said body corporate and
  politic so created under this act and the original incorporation of such
  association or organization shall then be null and void.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.