2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 5-C - Churches of the Orthodox Church in America › 107 - Government of Incorporated Churches of Orthodox Church in America; Powers and Duties of Trustees.

§  107.  Government  of  incorporated  churches  of Orthodox Church in
  America; powers and duties  of  trustees.  1.  Every  American  Orthodox
  church  in  this  state,  whether  incorporated before or after the said
  proclamation of autocephaly, and whether incorporated or  reincorporated
  pursuant  to  this  article  or  any  other  article  of  the  religious
  corporations law, or any general or private law, shall recognize and  be
  and  remain  subject  to  the  jurisdiction and authority of the general
  council, metropolitan archbishop  or  other  primate  or  hierarch,  the
  council of bishops, the executive council and other governing bodies and
  authorities  of  the Orthodox Church in America, pursuant to the statute
  for the government thereof, and any amendments  thereto  and  any  other
  statutes or rules adopted by a general council of the Orthodox Church in
  America  and shall in all other respects conform to, maintain and follow
  the  faith,  doctrine,  ritual,  communion,   discipline,   canon   law,
  traditions  and  usages  of  the Eastern Confession (Eastern Orthodox or
  Greek Catholic Church); provided, however, that the provisions  of  this
  section shall not be applicable to any church incorporated in this state
  which  was  excluded  from  the  autocephaly  of  the Orthodox Church in
  America by  said  proclamation  of  autocephaly,  namely,  St.  Nicholas
  Cathedral  of  the Russian Orthodox Church in North America and St. Mark
  Chapel, both of the County of New York, City of New York, St.  John  the
  Baptist  Chapel, County of Bronx, City of New York, Church of St. George
  the Great Martyr, County of Queens, City of  New  York,  Church  of  All
  Saints  Glorified  in  the Russian Land, Village of Pine Bush, County of
  Orange, House Chapel of St. Seraphim  of  Sarov,  Village  of  Westtown,
  County  of  Orange,  and  Church of St. George the Great Martyr, City of
  Buffalo, County of Erie, unless  any  such  church  shall  reincorporate
  pursuant  to  this article and the certificate therefor shall set forth,
  in addition to the other statements required to be  set  forth  therein,
  that  the  corporation  is being reincorporated pursuant to this article
  with the permission of the governing authority of the  Russian  Orthodox
  Church.
2.  The  six lay members of every church incorporated pursuant to this
  article 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 Orthodox Church in America.
3.  The  trustees  of  every  American  Orthodox church shall have the
  custody  and  control  of  all  temporalities  and  property,  real  and
  personal,  belonging  to  such  church and of the revenues therefrom and
  shall administer the  same  in  accordance  with  the  by-laws  of  such
  church,,  and  any  amendments  thereto  and  all other rules, statutes,
  regulations and usages of the Orthodox Church in America.