2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 2 - General Provisions › 15-A - Consolidation of Incorporated Presbyteries.

§  15-a.  Consolidation  of  incorporated presbyteries. 1. Two or more
  incorporated  presbyteries  may  enter  into  an   agreement   for   the
  consolidation  or  merger of such corporations and such corporations may
  be consolidated or merged so as to form a single corporation  which  may
  be either a new corporation or one of the constituent corporations. Said
  agreement  shall  set  forth the name of the proposed new corporation or
  the name of the existing corporation if it is to become the consolidated
  or merged corporation, the method of choosing trustees, the names of the
  persons to  be  the  first  trustees  of  the  new  corporation  if  the
  consolidated  or  merged  corporation is to be a new corporation and the
  date of the first annual corporate meeting.
2. Such agreement must be authorized and approved by a  majority  vote
  of  the  members  of  each  contracting presbytery taken at a meeting at
  which a quorum is present duly called in accordance  with  the  form  of
  government  of  the  Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the notice of such
  meeting shall state the purpose of the meeting.
3. Before such agreement is approved as aforesaid, such  consolidation
  or  merger  must  be directed and approved by the Synod of the Northeast
  and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
4. Each presbytery shall thereafter join in a petition to the  supreme
  court  for  an  order  consolidating or merging the corporation, setting
  forth the agreement of the contracting presbyteries, the  direction  and
  approval  of  the  bodies  as  set  forth  in  subdivision three of this
  section, a statement of all the property and liabilities and the sources
  of the annual income  of  each  presbytery  and  a  description  of  any
  property  held  by  such presbyteries in trust for specific purposes. In
  its discretion the court may direct that notice of the hearing  of  such
  petition be given to the parties interested therein in such manner as it
  may prescribe.
5.  After  hearing all the parties interested, present and desiring to
  be heard, the court may make an order for the consolidation or merger of
  the presbyteries on the terms of such agreement and such other terms and
  conditions  as  it  may  prescribe,  specifying  the  name  of  the  new
  corporation  or  the name the continuing corporation will have if one of
  the constituent corporations is to become  the  consolidated  or  merged
  corporation,  the  first  trustees thereof if a new corporation is to be
  created and the method by which their successors shall be chosen and the
  date of the first annual corporate meeting if a new corporation is to be
  created.
6. When such order is made and duly entered, the persons  constituting
  such  corporate  presbyteries shall become one incorporated consolidated
  or merged presbytery by, and said petitioning presbyteries shall  become
  consolidated  or merged under, the name designated in the order, and the
  trustees therein named, if it is a new corporation, shall be  the  first
  trustees  thereof,  and  if it is a new corporation the trustees thereof
  shall be chosen by the method therein designated, and  all  the  estate,
  rights,  powers  and  property of whatsoever nature, belonging to either
  corporation shall without further  act  or  deed  be  vested  in  and/or
  transferred to the new corporation as effectually as they were vested in
  or  belonging  to  the  former  corporations,  and the new or continuing
  corporations shall be liable for all the debts and  liabilities  of  the
  former  corporations  in  the  same manner and as effectually as if said
  debts or  liabilities  had  been  contracted  or  incurred  by  the  new
  corporation.
7. The order or a certified copy thereof shall be recorded in the book
  for  recording  certificates  of  incorporation  in  each county clerk's
  office in which the certificate of  incorporation  of  each  constituent
  presbytery was recorded.
8.  Such  consolidated  or merged presbytery shall have all the powers
  and responsibilities conferred upon presbyteries by the constitution and
  form of government of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).