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2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 10 - Other Denominations › 210 - Incorporation of Church Connected With Supreme Council of Independent Associated Spiritualists.

§  210.  Incorporation  of  church  connected  with supreme council of
  Independent Associated Spiritualists.   A meeting for  incorporating  or
  reincorporating  a  church in connection with the supreme council of the
  Independent Associated Spiritualists, Incorporated,  shall  be  held  in
  pursuance  of  the  preceding  provisions  of this article. Such meeting
  shall be held  and  such  church  shall  be  subject  to  the  following
  provisions:
1.  Notice  of  meeting  for incorporation. Notice of the meeting must
  have attached thereto the endorsement and consent of the supreme council
  of the Independent Associated Spiritualists;
2. The meeting for incorporation. The meeting shall be called to order
  by a person  delegated  to  do  so  by  the  supreme  councilor  or  his
  representative;
3.  The certificate of incorporation. The certificate of incorporation
  shall have attached thereto the endorsement and consent of  the  supreme
  council of the Independent Associated Spiritualists and the name of such
  church  as adopted shall thereafter have affixed "In connection with the
  supreme   council   of   the   Independent   Associated   Spiritualists,
  Incorporated,"   or   "Affiliated   with  the  supreme  council  of  the
  Independent Associated Spiritualists, Incorporated," as the case may be;
4. Rules and regulations.  A  church  incorporated  or  reincorporated
  under  the  provisions of this section shall be subject to the rules and
  regulations  of  the  supreme  council  of  the  Independent  Associated
  Spiritualists;
5.  Trustees. The trustees of a church incorporated under this section
  shall also be the spiritual officers of such church;
6. Election of ministers. No church may engage or  retain  a  minister
  not certified as in good standing by the supreme council;
7.  Licenses  and  certificates.  Only  persons  holding  a minister's
  license or a certificate of proficiency from the supreme  council  shall
  conduct  services  or  classes  in  any  church, incorporated under this
  section.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 10 - Other Denominations › 211 - Incorporation of Church in Connection With Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc.

§  211.  Incorporation  of church in connection with Spiritual Science
  Mother Church, Inc. A meeting for  incorporating  or  reincorporating  a
  church  in  connection with Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc., shall
  be held in pursuance of the preceding provisions of this  article.  Such
  meeting  shall be held and such church shall be subject to the following
  provisions:
1. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice  of  the  meeting  must
  have  attached  thereto the endorsement and consent of Spiritual Science
  Mother Church, Inc.
2. The meeting for incorporation. The meeting shall be called to order
  by an authorized delegate of the board of directors of Spiritual Science
  Mother  Church,  Inc.,  the  supreme  ecclesiastical  council  governing
  Spiritual Science Mother Church and its branch churches.
3.  The certificate of incorporation. The certificate of incorporation
  shall have attached thereto the endorsement and consent of the board  of
  directors of Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc., and the name of such
  church  as  adopted  shall  thereafter  have  affixed: "Branch Church of
  Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc., of New York."
4. Rules and regulations.  A  church  incorporated  or  reincorporated
  under  the  provisions of this section shall be subject to the rules and
  regulations of the  board  of  directors  of  Spiritual  Science  Mother
  Church, Inc.
5.  Trustees.  The  trustees  of such branch church incorporated under
  this section shall also be the spiritual officers of such church.
6. Election of ministers. No branch church of  Spiritual  Science  may
  engage  or  retain, under this section, any minister not certified as in
  good standing by Spiritual Science Mother Church board of directors.
7. Licenses  and  certificates.  Only  persons  holding  a  minister's
  license  or a certificate of proficiency from the ecclesiastical council
  of Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc., shall conduct services in  any
  church incorporated under this section.
8.  Recording of licenses. Such license or certificate shall be made a
  matter of public record either in the office of the county clerk or such
  other place as by law may be provided for such record.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11 - Union Churches › 220 - Joint Meeting for the Purposes of Incorporation.

§  220.  Joint  meeting for the purposes of incorporation. Two or more
  unincorporated churches, which separately agree on a plan of  union  and
  determine  to  meet  together for the purpose of being incorporated as a
  union church, may be incorporated as a union church in pursuance of  the
  provisions  of  article  ten,  and thereafter such union church shall be
  governed by the general provisions of such article, as near as  may  be,
  except  as  otherwise  provided  in this article. A notice of such joint
  meeting shall be given to the congregation of each church, in  pursuance
  of  the provisions of article ten of this chapter, relating to notice of
  meeting for incorporations, in every respect as if it were a notice of a
  meeting for  the  separate  incorporation  of  such  church  under  such
  article,  except  that  the notice shall state in substance that a joint
  meeting of such unincorporated churches, which shall be specified in the
  notice, will be held for the purpose of incorporating such churches as a
  union church,  and  electing  trustees  thereof  at  a  time  and  place
  specified  in  the notice, which place may be the usual place of worship
  of either of such churches or any  other  reasonably  convenient  place.
  Such  notice  must  be  signed by at least six persons from each of such
  churches who would be authorized to sign a notice  for  the  meeting  of
  each  church,  respectively,  for  the purpose of incorporating it under
  such article.
The provisions of article  ten  hereof  shall  be  applicable  to  the
  organization  and  conduct of such meeting, the matters to be determined
  upon and the certificate of  incorporation  to  be  executed  and  filed
  accordingly,  except  that  the  presiding officer of such joint meeting
  shall be the oldest person present at such meeting who would be entitled
  to preside at a meeting of  either  of  such  churches  singly  for  the
  purposes  of incorporation in pursuance of such article. All persons who
  would be qualified to vote at such meeting of either  of  such  churches
  held  singly,  shall  be qualified voters at such joint meeting, and the
  number of trustees of  the  union  church  after  incorporation,  to  be
  selected  from each such church, may be agreed on by such unincorporated
  churches, and the trustees shall be selected by each  of  such  churches
  accordingly.
The  certificate  of  incorporation  shall set forth the plan of union
  agreed on and the number of trustees of the incorporated union church to
  be selected by each unincorporated church.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-A - Organization of a Free Methodist Church.

§  225-a.  Organization of a free Methodist church. It shall be lawful
  for any number of persons, not less than six, with the  consent  of  the
  district  superintendent of the district in which the proposed church is
  to be located, to organize a free Methodist church and  to  procure  its
  incorporation.  Said  church, when so organized, shall be subject in all
  matters  of  church  government  and  ecclesiastical   polity   to   the
  discipline,  rules,  usages  and  ministerial  appointments  of the Free
  Methodist Church of North America, as from time to time  authorized  and
  declared  by  the  general  conference  of  said  church  and the annual
  conference within the bounds of which such church may be situated.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-B - Meeting for Incorporation.

§  225-b.  Meeting  for  incorporation. 1. Notice of a meeting for the
  purpose of incorporating an unincorporated free Methodist  church  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 must be signed by at least six members, either in  full
  connection or on probation, of the local society of full age and in good
  and  regular  standing.  This notice shall be publicly read at a regular
  meeting of such unincorporated church for public worship, at  least  ten
  days,  and  not  more  than thirty days, before the date of such meeting
  upon Sunday, if such service be held on Sunday, by the pastor or by  one
  of  the  signers  thereof;  and  a  copy  of such notice shall be posted
  conspicuously on the outside of the  main  entrance  to  such  place  of
  worship at least fifteen days before the date of such meeting.
3.  At the meeting for incorporation held in pursuance of such notice,
  the following persons, and no others, shall be qualified voters, to wit:
  all persons of full age, who are then members of such church, either  in
  full  connection  or on probation, and in good and regular standing. The
  presence of the majority of such  qualified  voters,  at  least  six  in
  number,  shall  be  necessary  to  constitute  a quorum of such meeting,
  without which no action can be taken. Each action of  the  meeting  upon
  any  matter  or question shall be decided by a majority of the qualified
  voters present and voting thereon. At  such  meeting  the  pastor  shall
  preside,  or  in  the absence of a pastor or in case of his declining to
  preside, any qualified voter may be elected to  preside.  The  presiding
  officer  shall  be the judge of the qualifications of voters, subject to
  appeal to the vote of the members present whose qualifications as voters
  are not challenged, and shall receive the votes  cast  and  declare  the
  result of the same.
4.  If  such  meeting  shall decide to incorporate such unincorporated
  church,  it  shall  also  decide  upon  the   name   of   the   proposed
  incorporation, the number of trustees thereof, which shall be three, six
  or  nine.    Such  meeting  shall elect by ballot the number of trustees
  decided upon, at least two-thirds of  whom  shall  be  members  in  full
  connection  of  the  free  Methodist  church  and  in  good  and regular
  standing. One-third of these shall hold office until  the  first  annual
  election  of  trustees  thereafter,  one-third  until  the second annual
  election, and one-third until the third annual election.
5. The first annual meeting for the election of trustees shall be held
  at the date fixed for the annual society meeting which shall  be  within
  three months prior to the session of the annual conference.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-C - Certificate of Incorporation.

§  225-c.  Certificate  of  incorporation. 1. The presiding officer of
  such a meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat
  shall be appointed by such meeting to execute  and  acknowledge,  before
  any  person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate of
  incorporation whereby they shall agree to be governed by the discipline,
  rules and usages of the Free Methodist Church of North America. To  such
  certificate  of  incorporation  there  shall  be  attached a certificate
  signed by the district superintendent of  the  district  in  which  said
  church is to be located, stating that the said church is incorporated by
  and with the consent of said district superintendent.
2.  This  certificate  of  incorporation  shall  contain the following
  items: The name of said church; the township, village or city,  and  the
  county  in  which said church shall be located; and agreement to worship
  and labor together according to the discipline, rules and usages of  the
  Free  Methodist  Church  of North America; the statement that there were
  six or more qualified voters present at  the  meeting  where  they  were
  elected  and  this  act  of  incorporation was authorized; the names and
  respective periods of office of the trustees elected; the place and date
  of said meeting for incorporation; and the signatures and residences  of
  those   authorized  to  execute  and  acknowledge  this  certificate  of
  incorporation.
3. This certificate of incorporation shall be executed  in  duplicate.
  One  of  such duplicate copies shall be retained by such corporation and
  one copy shall be recorded in the office of  the  county  clerk  of  the
  county  where such corporation is formed. On filing such certificate the
  members either in  full  connection  or  on  probation  of  such  church
  qualified to vote at such meeting and 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 successors are elected.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-D - Amendment of Articles of Incorporation.

§ 225-d. Amendment of articles of incorporation. 1. It shall be lawful
  for any incorporated church coming under the provisions of this article,
  by  a  two-thirds  vote of the members present and voting at a regularly
  called society meeting, to alter or amend its articles of  incorporation
  in  any  manner not inconsistent with the provisions of this article, or
  the book of discipline of the Free Methodist Church  of  North  America;
  and  such  alteration  or  amendment  shall  become  operative when said
  society  shall  execute  and  acknowledge  said  amended   articles   of
  incorporation  as  provided for in section two hundred and twenty-five-c
  of this article, and with an attached  certificate  of  consent  by  the
  district superintendent as provided in said section.
2. Every free Methodist church organized and incorporated in the state
  of  New  York,  after  this article takes effect, shall be organized and
  incorporated under its provisions and be subject thereto.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-E - Effect Upon Existing Corporations.

§  225-e.  Effect  upon  existing  corporations.  Every free Methodist
  church heretofore incorporated in the state of  New  York  shall,  three
  months  after  this  article  takes effect, automatically come under its
  provisions, unless in the meantime it shall elect by a  two-thirds  vote
  of  all its members in full connection to remain under the provisions of
  the  general  or  special  law  applicable  thereto  at  such  time.   A
  certificate  of  such  vote shall be filed in the office of the clerk of
  the county in which the principal place of worship of  such  corporation
  is  located  and  shall  be  recorded by such clerk in the book in which
  certificates of religious corporations are recorded pursuant to law.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-F - Annual Election of Trustees.

§  225-f.  Annual election of trustees. 1. Trustees of an incorporated
  free Methodist church shall be elected at  the  annual  society  meeting
  held  within  three months prior to the session of the annual conference
  to which the society belongs.  Notice of such meeting shall be  publicly
  announced  at  a  regular meeting of such incorporated church for public
  worship upon Sunday, if such service be held on Sunday, and at least ten
  days, and not more than thirty days, before said meeting shall be  held.
  This notice shall be given by the pastor, the officiating minister or an
  officer  of  the  church.  At the said annual society meeting the pastor
  shall preside, or in  the  absence  of  a  pastor  or  in  case  of  his
  declining, any qualified voter therein may be elected to preside. During
  the election of the trustees the following persons, and no others, shall
  be  qualified  voters,  to wit: all persons who are then members in full
  connection or on probation of such church in good and regular  standing.
  Said  election  shall  be by ballot and on a majority vote, and at least
  six persons qualified to vote thereat shall be necessary to constitute a
  quorum. The trustees shall be so elected that the office of one-third of
  them shall continue for  three  years,  one-third  for  two  years,  and
  one-third  for  one  year. At least two-thirds of said trustees shall be
  members in full connection of the free  Methodist  church  in  good  and
  regular  standing.  All  trustees  shall  hold  their office until their
  successors are elected, unless their office shall terminate as  provided
  for in section two hundred and twenty-five-h of this article.
2. A special corporate meeting of any such church may be called by the
  trustees  thereof  on  their  own  motion,  and  must be called upon the
  written request of at least six qualified voters  of  such  church,  and
  shall  be  called  and notice thereof given in the same manner as for an
  annual corporate meeting.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-G - Changing Number of Trustees.

§  225-g.  Changing number of trustees. An incorporated church may, at
  its annual meeting where trustees are elected, by vote change the number
  of its trustees to three, six or nine by adding more trustees, one-third
  of which shall be elected for three years, one-third for two years,  and
  one-third  for  one  year;  or  by  voting to discontinue the offices of
  certain specified trustees as they expire, one-third of said offices  to
  be  discontinued  each year, until the number left is the number decided
  upon. Such changes in the board of trustees shall always provide that at
  least two-thirds of the trustees shall be members in full connection  of
  the  free  Methodist church in good and regular standing. No such change
  shall affect the terms of the trustees then in office,  but  each  shall
  hold  office  until  his  full  term  has  expired, unless his office is
  terminated according to section two hundred and  twenty-five-h  of  this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-H - Vacancies in Board of Trustees.

§  225-h.  Vacancies  in  board  of  trustees.  If any trustee of such
  incorporated church declines to act, resigns or dies; or, having been  a
  member  of  such  church,  ceases  to be a member; or removes beyond the
  bounds of the circuit in which he is elected, his office shall be vacant
  and a special corporate meeting may be called to fill that vacancy until
  the next annual  society  meeting  of  such  church  when  trustees  are
  elected,  at which meeting the vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired
  term.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-I - Trustee Meetings.

§  225-i.  Trustee  meetings.  1.  Meetings  of  the  trustees  of  an
  incorporated free Methodist church shall be called by  giving  at  least
  forty-eight  hours'  notice  thereof  personally  or  by mail to all the
  trustees, and such notice may be given by the pastor, the  secretary  of
  the  board  of  trustees  or  by  any  two  of  the trustees, but by the
  unanimous consent of the trustees a meeting may be held without previous
  notice thereof. The pastor may preside at a trustee meeting and  in  his
  absence  the  senior  trustee  in  service, or some member, the board of
  trustees elects for that purpose, shall be chairman. A majority  of  the
  whole  number  of trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
  of business at any meeting lawfully convened.
2. The effect of a tie vote creating a deadlock shall be to carry  the
  question involved (with all pending questions appertaining thereto) over
  to  the next sitting or meeting of the board. In case of such a deadlock
  extending beyond three successive sittings or meetings of the  board  of
  trustees, the whole matter involved shall be settled in a meeting of the
  corporate society.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-J - Powers of Incorporated Societies.

§  225-j.  Powers  of  incorporated societies. 1. An incorporated free
  Methodist church may, under  restrictions  hereinafter  provided,  sell,
  mortgage,  or  otherwise dispose of or encumber its real estate, but not
  for current expenses.
2. Said corporation shall at all times permit such ministers belonging
  to the free Methodist  church  as  shall  from  time  to  time  be  duly
  authorized  by  the  general  conference of said church or by the annual
  conference, within whose bounds the said corporation may be,  to  preach
  and  expound  God's  Holy  Word  therein;  and  shall permit pastors and
  district superintendents duly appointed, to execute  the  discipline  of
  said free Methodist church and to administer the sacraments therein.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-K - Powers and Duties of the Trustees.

§ 225-k. Powers and duties of the trustees. 1. The trustees shall have
  the  custody  of  all the temporalities and property, real and personal,
  belonging to the corporation and of the revenues  therefrom,  and  shall
  administer  the same in accordance with the discipline, rules and usages
  of the corporation and of the Free Methodist Church  of  North  America;
  but  shall  have  no  control  of  funds  raised  for  pastoral support,
  benevolent  enterprises  or  any  other  purpose  save  those   directly
  connected with the property of the church.
2.  A  society  meeting of an incorporated free Methodist church whose
  trustees are elective as such, may give direction, not inconsistent with
  law, as to the manner in which any of the temporal affairs of the church
  shall be administered by the trustees thereof; and such directions shall
  be followed by the trustees. The trustees shall have no  power,  without
  the  consent  of  such  a society 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 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-L - Conveyance of Property.

§  225-l.  Conveyance of property. Whenever it may become necessary or
  advisable to mortgage or dispose of any church  property,  the  trustees
  may mortgage or sell and convey the same by first securing the authority
  of  the  society  for  such  sale  or  mortgage  and the approval of the
  district superintendent of the district in which the church is  located,
  and  obtaining leave of the supreme or county court therefor pursuant to
  the provisions of this chapter; provided that in all cases the  proceeds
  of  such  sale or mortgage shall be used either for the payment of debts
  or for the purchase or improvement of property for  the  same  uses  and
  deeded to the same corporation; or if not so used, shall be held subject
  to  the  order of the annual conference in whose territory such property
  may be situated. Provided however that, if the deed of the  property  to
  be  sold  shall convey the property to the local corporate society to be
  held in trust for the use and benefit of  the  membership  of  the  Free
  Methodist  Church  of  North America, it shall also be necessary for the
  trustees to secure the consent of the free Methodist general  conference
  of North America, or in the intervals of its sessions, of such person or
  persons  as  are  authorized  by  said  general conference to grant such
  permission, in order to mortgage or sell and convey such property.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches. › 225-M - Property of Extinct Churches.

§  225-m.  Property  of  extinct  churches. 1. Any incorporated annual
  conference or other governing body of  the  free  Methodist  church  may
  decide  that a church society in connection with it or over which it has
  ecclesiastical jurisdiction, 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 governing body,
  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  religious
  society,  and manage the same; or may, in pursuance of the provisions of
  this act relating to the disposition of real property by free  Methodist
  corporations, sell or dispose of the same and apply the proceeds thereof
  to any of the purposes to which the property of such governing religious
  body  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  incorporated
  governing body, 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
  incorporated  governing body, 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 incorporated governing body,
  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 13 - Spiritualist Churches. › 263 - Incorporation of Unincorporated Spiritualist Churches and System of Incorporation and Government.

§  263.  Incorporation  of  unincorporated  Spiritualist  churches and
  system of incorporation and government. A meeting  for  the  purpose  of
  incorporating  an  unincorporated Spiritualist church in connection with
  the General Assembly  of  Spiritualists  must  be  called  and  held  in
  pursuance of the provisions of this article:
1.  The  notice and call of such meeting 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 and designating trustees thereof.
2. The notice must be signed at least by seven persons of full age who
  are  then  members  in  good  and  regular  standing  of  such church by
  admission into full membership therewith, in accordance with  the  rules
  and  regulations of such church, and who have in good faith expressed in
  open meeting their belief in the tenets of faith adopted by the  General
  Assembly of Spiritualists.
3.  The  notice must have endorsed thereon the approval of the body of
  the  General  Assembly  of  Spiritualists  governing  the  admission  of
  churches.
4.  A  copy of such notice with the approval endorsed thereon 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 any person qualified to sign such notice.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 13 - Spiritualist Churches. › 264 - .

* §  264.  At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance to such
  notice, the qualified voters unless  otherwise  decided  as  hereinafter
  provided  shall all be persons of full age who have worshipped with such
  church, and have regularly contributed to its support according  to  its
  usages,  for  at  least one year or since it was formed, and who have in
  good faith in open meeting expressed their belief in the tenets of faith
  adopted by the General Assembly of Spiritualists. At  such  meeting  the
  presence  of  a  majority  of  such  qualified voters, at least seven 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 a person  delegated  so
  to  do  by the president of the General Assembly of Spiritualists. There
  shall be elected at such 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 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 worshipped with such church but  who
  have  not  contributed  to  the financial support thereof, shall also be
  qualified voters at such meeting. Such meeting shall thereupon elect  by
  ballot  from  the  persons  qualified  to vote thereat, 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  or  secretary  of  the
  corporation,  who  shall  hold  his  office  until the close of the next
  annual meeting.
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2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 13 - Spiritualist Churches. › 265 - The Certificate of Incorporation.

§  265.  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 or town, city or village in which its principal place of
  worship is, or is intended to be located. The name  of  such  church  as
  adopted shall bear the words "in connection with the General Assembly of
  Spiritualists."  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 13 - Spiritualist Churches. › 266 - Time, Place and Notice of Corporate Meetings.

§  266.  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 shall be called  by  the  board  of
  trustees  thereof, on its own motion, and shall be called on the written
  request of at least seven 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 presiding officer 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 13 - Spiritualist Churches. › 267 - Organization and Conduct of Corporate Meetings; Qualifications of Voters.

§  267. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications
  of voters. At every corporate meeting of  a  church  incorporated  under
  this  article  all  persons who for one year next preceding such meeting
  have worshipped with such church and have regularly contributed  to  its
  financial  support,  according to its usages, shall be qualified voters;
  but, if so decided, by a two-thirds vote at the original meeting  or  at
  any  annual  corporate meeting thereof, after notice of such meeting all
  members of such church and in good and regular standing, by admission to
  membership therewith, who have worshipped with such church for one  year
  next  preceding  the meeting at which they vote, may also be admitted as
  qualified voters at corporate meetings. At such corporate meetings,  the
  presence  of  at  least seven 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 only be adopted or amended by a  two-thirds  vote.  The
  clerk  or  secretary 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 the voters. At such 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 or secretary of the corporation shall be elected  by  ballot,  who
  shall  hold office until the close of the next annual meeting, and until
  his successor shall be elected.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 13 - Spiritualist Churches. › 268 - Election and Salary of Ministers.

§  268. Election and salary of ministers. The ministerial and clerical
  attendants of any such church shall be called, elected and  removed  and
  their  salaries  fixed as such corporation in its by-laws shall provide,
  but no such church shall call, or elect any such person to  perform  any
  of  the  duties  of  minister  or  clerical  attendant  who has not been
  regularly commissioned so to act by the General Assembly of Spritualists
  according to  its  rules,  after  examination  into  the  character  and
  qualifications of such person by its committees regularly appointed, nor
  shall  any  such  church  retain  any person as its minister or clerical
  attendant after it has been regularly notified that such person has been
  suspended or removed according to  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the
  General Assembly of Spiritualists covering such matters.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 13 - Spiritualist Churches. › 269 - Duties of Ministers, Et Cetera.

§  269.  Duties  of  ministers,  et  cetera.  Ministers  and  clerical
  attendants shall perform such duties as  the  by-laws  shall  direct  in
  accordance  with  the  rules  and regulations of the General Assembly of
  Spiritualists.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 13 - Spiritualist Churches. › 270 - Reincorporation of Present Incorporated Spiritualist Churches.

§  270. Reincorporation of present incorporated Spiritualist churches.
  Any Spiritualist church heretofore incorporated may reincorporate  under
  the provisions of this article by filing in the county clerk's office of
  the  county  in  which  its  principal  place  of  worship is located, a
  certificate that at a special meeting held pursuant to the provisions of
  section two hundred and sixty-six of this article, that such church  had
  by  two-thirds  vote  of the members present and qualified to vote, duly
  voted to reincorporate under the  provisions  hereof.  Such  certificate
  shall  be signed by the presiding officer and two inspectors of election
  acting thereat and shall be acknowledged, and shall bear the indorsement
  and consent of  the  body  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Spiritualists
  governing   admission  of  churches.  The  name  of  such  church  shall
  thereafter have affixed  the  words  "in  connection  with  the  General
  Assembly of Spiritualists."
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 14 - Churches of the Nazarene › 274 - Incorporation.

§  274.  Incorporation.  An  unincorporated church of the Nazarene 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  unincorporated  churches  of  the
  Nazarene,   shall   be   executed   and  acknowledged  by  the  district
  superintendent of the district in which its principal place  of  worship
  is located, or in case of his absence or inability to act, by one of the
  general  superintendents  of  the  church  of the Nazarene of the United
  States, and by the laymen, members of such church, who shall be selected
  as the first trustees thereof by said official.
In filing the said certificate, said church shall be a corporation  by
  the name stated in the certificate.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 14 - Churches of the Nazarene › 275 - Government.

§  275.  Government.  The  district  superintendent of the district to
  which any incorporated church of the Nazarene belongs, and his successor
  in office, shall be by virtue of his office, a trustee of  said  church;
  and  the  laymen,  members of such church who signed said certificate of
  incorporation shall together constitute  the  first  board  of  trustees
  thereof.  The  term of office of the laymen trustees of the incorporated
  church of the Nazarene, shall be one year; the number of laymen trustees
  shall be three, six or nine. Whenever the  office  of  any  such  laymen
  trustees  shall  become  vacant  by  expiration  of  term  of  office or
  otherwise, his successor shall be elected by a majority vote of the duly
  qualified members of said church. No act or proceedings of the  trustees
  of  any  incorporated church shall be valid, without the sanction of the
  district superintendent of the district to which such church belongs, or
  in case of his absence or inability to act, without the sanction of  one
  of  the  general  superintendents  of  the church of the Nazarene of the
  United States.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 14 - Churches of the Nazarene › 276 - Reincorporation of Present Incorporated Churches of the Nazarene.

§  276.  Reincorporation  of  present  incorporated  churches  of  the
  Nazarene.  Any  church  of  the  Nazarene  heretofore  incorporated  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 district superintendent
  of  the  district in which its principal place of worship is located, or
  in case of his absence or inability  to  act,  by  one  of  the  general
  superintendents  of the church of the Nazarene of the United States, and
  by all the trustees in office  at  the  time  of  such  reincorporation,
  setting  forth that they desire to reincorporate under the provisions of
  this act, 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; the number and the names of the  laymen
  trustees  who  are  to hold office until the next annual meeting of said
  corporation. Immediately upon the filing of such certificate, the  board
  of trustees of said church, shall consist of the district superintendent
  of  the district in which the principal place of worship is located, and
  the laymen trustees selected as above provided, and the  office  of  the
  trustees  of  said  church heretofore appointed or selected shall become
  vacant and cease to exist.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 14 - Churches of the Nazarene › 278 - Corporations for Acquiring Camp Meeting Grounds for Camp Meeting Purposes.

§  278.  Corporations  for  acquiring  camp  meeting  grounds for camp
  meeting purposes. The district superintendent and  the  members  of  the
  camp  meeting board duly elected by a district assembly of the Church of
  the Nazarene may become incorporated  for  the  purposes  of  acquiring,
  maintaining  and improving real property to be used as a camp ground for
  camp  meeting  purposes,  by  executing,  acknowledging  and  filing   a
  certificate  stating the name and object of the corporation, the name of
  such district assembly and of such district, the names and residences of
  the signers thereof, the number of trustees of such  corporation,  which
  shall be three, or some multiple of three, not more than twenty-one, the
  names  of  such  trustees,  designating one-third to hold office for one
  year, one-third to hold office for  two  years  and  one-third  to  hold
  office  for  three  years.  On  filing  such  a certificate the district
  superintendent and the members of such camp meeting  board  shall  be  a
  corporation  by  the  name  and  for the purposes therein stated and the
  trustees therein named shall be the first trustees thereof.
A person holding property in trust for camp meeting purposes or  other
  religious purposes for the Church of the Nazarene may convey the same to
  a  corporation  organized  for  the  purpose  of acquiring such property
  within the district in which the property is situated.
Meetings held under the direction of such a corporation  upon  grounds
  owned  by it shall be deemed religious meetings within the provisions of
  the law relating to disturbance of religious meetings.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 14 - Churches of the Nazarene › 279 - Incorporation of Advisory Board of a District of the Church of the Nazarene.

§  279. Incorporation of advisory board of a district of the Church of
  the Nazarene. 1. The district superintendent  and  the  members  of  the
  advisory  board duly elected by a district assembly of the Church of the
  Nazarene may incorporate for the purpose of advancing the development of
  the Churches of Nazarene in such district.
2. The certificate of incorporation shall  state  the  object  of  the
  corporation,  the  name  of such district assembly and of such district,
  the names and residences of the signers thereof, the number of  trustees
  which  shall  be not less than three or more than five, designating them
  to hold office for one year. On executing, acknowledging and filing such
  certificate the advisory board of such district shall be  a  corporation
  and the trustees therein stated shall be the first trustees thereof.
3.  Such  corporation  may  acquire property for churches, parsonages,
  missions,  Sunday  schools,  denominational   educational   institutions
  (subject  to  the  consent of the university of New York), residences of
  church workers, dispensaries of medicine for  the  poor,  rescue  homes,
  homes  for  the  aged  or  for needy and orphan children, subject to the
  consent  of  the  state  board  of  social  welfare,  and  property  for
  cemeteries,  camp  grounds  or  for  other  religious  purposes.  Such a
  corporation shall have power to establish, maintain and  manage  by  its
  trustees  or other officers such institutions as a part of its religious
  purpose, and may take and  hold  by  conveyance,  donation,  bequest  or
  devise  real  and  personal property for such purposes, and may purchase
  and may erect suitable buildings therefor. Any such corporation may take
  and hold any grant, donation, bequest or  devise  of  real  or  personal
  property heretofore or hereafter made upon trust, and apply the same, or
  the  income  thereof,  under  the  direction  of  its  trustees or other
  officers. Such trustees or other officers shall have power  to  mortgage
  or  sell  and convey any property under the care, when directed so to do
  by the corporation that elected them, having first obtained leave of the
  supreme or county court therefor pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this
  chapter;  provided  that  in  all  cases  the  proceeds  of such sale or
  mortgage shall be used either for  the  payment  of  debts  or  for  the
  purchase  or improvement of property for the same uses and deeded to the
  same corporation; or if not used, shall be held subject to the order  of
  the annual assembly of the district.