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2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 340 - Resolutions to Be Adopted at the Meeting for Incorporation.

§  340. Resolutions to be adopted at the meeting for incorporation. In
  order to incorporate under this article, the  meeting  shall  adopt  the
  following  resolution by a majority of its qualified voters, present and
  voting, to wit:
Whereas, this congregation was founded and established, and thereby  a
  permanent  trust was created, for the purpose and intent of adhering to,
  maintaining and promoting religious worship and  teaching  according  to
  the  communion,  doctrine,  discipline,  rite, canon law, traditions and
  usages of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church; and
Whereas, such purpose and intent and the trust thereby created can  be
  fully  effected  and  safeguarded  only in complete canonical unity with
  jurisdictions and in obedience to bishops acknowledged and certified  by
  the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America; and
Whereas, the signors thereof are the trustees, duly elected as such at
  a  meeting  duly  held  on the ............ day of .......... , nineteen
  hundred  ..........  ,  in  accordance  with  article  eighteen  of  the
  religious corporations law; and
Whereas,  by  a  majority  vote  the  said  meeting  has determined to
  incorporate as a Church of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church
  in America under the name of (here give the corporate name by which such
  church is to be known); and
Whereas, permission and sanction for such incorporation has been given
  and certified in accordance with the provisions of said article by (here
  name the appropriate  archbishop,  bishop  or  administrator)  to  whose
  jurisdiction and authority this corporation shall adhere.
Therefore  it  is hereby resolved, that this congregation shall become
  and remain an incorporated church of the aforesaid jurisdiction in  full
  unity   of   communion,  faith  and  discipline  with  the  Byelorussian
  Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America and that the clergymen  trustees
  of  this  said  church  shall  be  the archbishop, or bishop, who is the
  administrator  of  the  Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church  in
  America and rector of this church, and their successors in office, shall
  by  virtue  of  their offices, be the clergymen trustees of this church,
  which said two officers together, with the  ..........  laymen  trustees
  elected  at  this  incorporation  meeting, shall constitute the trustees
  thereof. Said clergymen trustees' term of office  shall  continue  until
  their   successors   in   said  office  are  elected  by  the  governing
  ecclesiastical body of the Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church,
  and said laymen trustees' term of office shall be that fixed by statute.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 341 - Certificate of Incorporation.

§  341.  Certificate  of incorporation. 1. If the meeting shall decide
that such congregation  shall  become  an  incorporated  church  of  the
Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox Church in America, a certificate of
incorporation  therefor  shall  be  executed  and  acknowledged  by  the
archbishop,   or  bishop,  who  is  administrator  of  the  Byelorussian
Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America, the rector of the  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 by which the proposed corporation shall be known;
(b) The number of laymen trustees thereof; the names and addresses  of
the  persons  elected as trustees; and the term of office for which they
were respectively elected;
(c) An exact copy of the resolution which provides  for  the  clerical
trustees by virtue of their offices;
(d)  The  name of county, town, city or village in which the principal
place of worship or office is or is intended to be located;
(e) The purpose and intent for which said corporation is  created,  to
be set forth as follows:
"The purpose and intent of this corporation is to maintain, propagate,
practice  and forever perpetuate religious worship, services, sacraments
and teaching in full accordance and unity  with  the  doctrine,  ritual,
canon law, faith, practice, discipline, and traditions and usages of the
Holy  Orthodox  Church; and for carrying out of said purpose and intent,
to form and maintain a religious organization  of  church  adherent  and
obedient  to  the  ecclesiastical  jurisdiction  and  authority  of  the
archbishop, or bishop, or administrator of the Byelorussian Autocephalic
Orthodox Church in America and certified by the governing ecclesiastical
body of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church, as canonical  and
duly appointed."
(f) In the certificate of incorporation of societies or organizations,
other  than  churches, special purposes, additional to the above, may be
set forth.
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 trustees therefor for their  respective  terms  and
until their successors are elected.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 342 - Reincorporation of Existing Corporations.

§  342.  Reincorporation  of  existing  corporations.  Any  heretofore
  incorporated  church,  to  which  this  article   is   applicable,   may
  reincorporate under the provisions of this article by the same procedure
  hereinbefore  set  forth  for incorporation substituting, at appropriate
  places, the  word  "reincorporate"  for  "incorporate"  and  filing  the
  certificate  of reincorporation in the office of the county clerk in the
  county in which its principal place of worship is located.   Immediately
  upon  the  filing  of  such certificate all the right, title, equity and
  interest of such corporation in any estate, real or  personal,  together
  with   all  franchise  and  charter  rights,  shall  be  vested  in  the
  corporation so created under this article, and the original  corporation
  shall be null and void.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 343 - Time, Place and Notice of Corporate Meetings.

§  343.  Time,  place  and notice of corporate meetings. 1. 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.
2. A special corporate meeting of any such church may be called by the
  board of trustees thereof, on its own motion, and shall be called on the
  written request of at least ten qualified voters of such church.
3. The trustees shall cause notice of  the  time  and  place  of  such
  annual  corporate meeting, therein specifying the names of any trustees,
  whose successors are to be  elected  thereat  and  the  business  to  be
  transacted thereat, and, if a special meeting, specifying business to be
  transacted  thereat,  to  be  publicly  read  at  two successive regular
  meetings for public worship or at special meetings of such church on the
  two Sundays  immediately  preceding  the  annual  or  special  corporate
  meeting,  by  the  rector  of  such  church or if there be none or he be
  necessarily absent, by the officiating minister  thereof,  if  there  be
  one,  or  if not, or if any such minister refuse to give such notice, by
  any officer of such church. If no public worship  be  held  during  said
  period,  or  if it be the notice of special corporate meeting, a copy of
  such notice shall be posted conspicuously on the  outside  of  the  main
  entrance  to  the  usual  or principal place of worship at least fifteen
  days before such meeting and a copy of such notice shall be sent by mail
  postpaid at least ten days prior to the date set  for  such  meeting  to
  each  member  of  such  church in good and regular standing by admission
  into full communion and membership therewith,  in  accordance  with  the
  rules  and regulations thereof, and of the governing ecclesiastical body
  of the Byelorussian Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church,  and  who  has  been
  stated  attendant  at  divine  worship  in such church and has regularly
  contributed to the  financial  support  thereof  during  the  year  next
  preceding such meeting, at his last known address as same appears in the
  records of the church.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 345 - Change of Date of Annual Corporate Meetings.

§  345.  Change  of  date  of  annual  corporate  meetings.  An annual
  corporate meeting of an incorporated church to  which  this  article  is
  applicable  may, by a majority vote of the duly qualified voters at such
  meeting, change the date of the annual meeting thereafter. If such  date
  as so changed 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 period of time elapsing
  between the date of 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 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 346 - Changing Number of Laymen Trustees.

§  346.  Changing number of laymen trustees. An incorporated church to
  which this article is applicable may, at its  annual  corporate  meeting
  where  trustees  are  elected,  by a majority vote of the duly qualified
  voters at such meeting, change the number of its trustees 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.  No  such  changes  shall affect the terms of the
  trustees then in office, but each shall hold office until his full  term
  has  expired unless his office shall terminate as provided for elsewhere
  in this article.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 347 - The Powers and Duties of Trustees.

§  347.  The  powers  and  duties  of  trustees. 1. The trustees of an
  incorporated church to which this article is applicable shall  have  the
  custody  and  control  of  all  the  temporalities and property, real or
  personal, belonging to the corporation and of all the revenues therefrom
  and  shall  administer  the  same  strictly  in  accordance   with   the
  discipline,  rules,  usages,  laws  and constitution of the Byelorussian
  Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America, 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
  the governing  ecclesiastical  body  of  the  Byelorussian  Autocephalic
  Orthodox  Church  in  America,  and  they shall not use such property or
  revenue for any other purpose or divert the same from such uses.
2. By-laws or directions adopted at any corporate meeting of any  such
  incorporated church shall control the subsequent action of its trustees,
  as  to  the  temporalities and property or revenues therefrom, and as to
  the care thereof, and changes in either thereof and disposition thereof.
3. 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.
4. The trustees shall not prevent or  interfere  with  the  rector  or
  other  duly  authorized  ministers  in  the  use  of  said  property for
  religious services or other proper meetings recognized by  the  law  and
  usages of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America.
5.  The  trustees  of  an incorporated church to which this article is
  applicable, shall have no power to settle or remove or fix the salary of
  the minister. The trustees shall also have no power to fix or change the
  time, nature or order of the public or social worship  of  such  church,
  except  when  such  trustees  are  also  the  spiritual officers of such
  church.
6. The trustees of  any  such  church  shall  be  responsible  to  the
  diocesan  council or the convention (sobor) of the diocese within bounds
  of which such church is situated  in  accordance  with  the  discipline,
  rules,  usages,  laws  and constitution of the Byelorussian Autocephalic
  Orthodox Church in America and  shall  make  reports  to  said  diocesan
  council  or convention (sobor) which reports shall include all the items
  required.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 348 - Meetings of Trustees.

§  348.  Meetings  of  trustees.  1.  Meetings  of  the trustees of an
  incorporated church to which this article is applicable may be  held  at
  stated  intervals,  or  shall  be called by the chairman of the board of
  trustees on his own motion, or upon request  of  one  of  the  clergymen
  trustees  or  any  two  of  the  laymen  trustees  by  giving  at  least
  twenty-four hours notice thereof personally or by mail to all  trustees,
  but  by  the  unanimous  consent  of  the trustees a meeting may be held
  without previous notice thereof.
2. To duly constitute such regular or special meeting of the  trustees
  for the transaction of business, at any meeting lawfully convened, there
  shall  be  present a majority of the laymen trustees, the archbishop, or
  bishop, who is administrator of the Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox
  Church  in  America, the rector of the church, unless there is no rector
  at that time, or he shall be necessarily absent, and the  clerk  of  the
  corporation.  If  the  archbishop,  or bishop, cannot be present, he may
  send his proxy to one of the laymen trustees.
3. The chairman of the board of trustees shall preside or if he  shall
  be necessarily absent, the rector shall preside at the meeting.
4. No act or procedure other than regular routine matters in regard to
  the  administration  of  the  temporal affairs of the church and for the
  care of the property of the  corporation,  as  included  in  the  budget
  items, shall be valid without the sanction of the archbishop, or bishop,
  who is administrator of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in
  America.
5.  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 meeting of the board. In case of such a  deadlock  extending
  beyond  three  successive  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 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 349 - Vacancies Among Layman Trustees.

§  349.  Vacancies  among layman trustees. If any layman trustee of an
  incorporated church to which this article is applicable declines to act,
  resigns or dies, or ceases to  be  a  qualified  voter  at  a  corporate
  meeting  thereof,  or has his trusteeship terminated by any other means,
  his office shall be vacant; and  such  vacancy  may  be  filled  by  the
  remaining  trustees  until  the  next  annual  corporate meeting of such
  church; at which meeting the vacancy shall be filled for  the  unexpired
  term.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 350 - Pastoral Relations.

§   350.   Pastoral  relations.  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 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  laws, regulations, practice, discipline, books of government,
  rules  and  usages  of  the  ecclesiastical  governing   body   of   the
  Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church, except that the salary of any
  such  minister  may  be  increased  at any corporate meeting of any such
  church.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 351 - Conveyance of Property.

§  351.  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
  archbishop,  or  bishop,  who  is  administrator  of  the   Byelorussian
  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church  in  America,  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 diocesan council of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church
  in America which has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over such church.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 18 - Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America › 352 - Property of Extinct Churches.

§  352.  Property  of  extinct  churches.  The diocesan council of the
  Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America may decide  that  a
  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 the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church, 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  diocesan council 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 diocesan council, 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  diocesan  council,  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 diocesan council, 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 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 400 - Application of Article.

§  400.  Application  of article. 1. This article applies to religious
  societies which are members of the Unitarian Universalist Association at
  the time of incorporation under this article.
The term "society" includes churches and fellowships.
2. Incorporation under this article does not confer any ecclesiastical
  or denominational authority upon the Unitarian Universalist  Association
  in respect to the societies so incorporated.
3.  The general provisions of this chapter shall be applicable only in
  those circumstances where the provisions of this article do not apply.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 401 - Incorporation of an Unincorporated Society.

§ 401. Incorporation of an unincorporated society. Any five members of
  an  unincorporated  religious  society,  who are of full age, may call a
  meeting for  the  purpose  of  incorporating  such  society  under  this
  article.  The  notice  of such meeting shall be mailed at least fourteen
  days prior to the date of the  meeting.    The  notice  shall  state  in
  substance that a meeting of the unincorporated society will be held at a
  specified  place,  day  and  hour  for  the purpose of incorporating the
  society, electing trustees and selecting a corporate name.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 402 - Meeting for Incorporation of Unincorporated Society.

§  402.  Meeting  for  incorporation  of  unincorporated society. At a
  meeting for incorporation held pursuant to section four hundred one, the
  qualified voters, until otherwise decided as hereafter  provided,  shall
  be  all  persons  of  full  age  who  are  members of the unincorporated
  society, according to its rules or usages, for at least one  year  prior
  to the meeting or since it was formed.
At  such  meeting the presence of a majority of such qualified voters,
  in person, at least six 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 one of the signers of the call. There shall be elected at such
  meeting, from the qualified voters then present, a presiding officer,  a
  clerk  to  keep  the  record  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 society shall
  become incorporated, the meeting shall also decide upon the name of  the
  proposed corporation, the number of the trustees thereof, which shall be
  not  less  than  three  and not more than twelve, and the date, not more
  than fifteen months thereafter, on which the first  annual  election  of
  the trustees thereof shall be held.
Such  meeting  shall  also  adopt  by-laws  and  then  elect by ballot
  trustees in accordance with the provisions of such by-laws.
Thereafter, the officers  of  the  corporation  shall  be  elected  in
  accordance with the by-laws.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 403 - Certificate of Incorporation.

§  403. Certificate of incorporation. (a) If the meeting held pursuant
to section four hundred two shall decide that the unincorporated society
shall become incorporated, the presiding officer of such meeting and the
two  inspectors  of  election  shall  execute  a  certificate   entitled
"Certificate  of  Incorporation  pursuant  to  article  nineteen  of the
Religious Corporations Law."  This certificate shall state:
(1) the name of the proposed corporation,
(2) a statement that it is a  member  of  the  Unitarian  Universalist
Association,
(3)  the  number  of  trustees  thereof or that the number of trustees
shall not be less than a stated minimum nor more than a stated maximum,
(4) the names and residences of the trustees until  the  first  annual
meeting,
(5)  the  terms  of  office  for  which the trustees were respectively
elected,
(6) the county, town, city or village in which the principal place  of
worship or office is or is intended to be located.
(b)  On  the  filing  and  recording  of  such certificate 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 society  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 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 404 - Formation of a New Society.

§  404.  Formation  of a new society. Five or more persons of full age
  may form a corporation under this  article  by  holding  a  meeting  for
  incorporation  in  accordance  with  section four hundred two hereof, at
  which all of them shall be qualified voters. If the  majority  of  those
  attending  such  meeting decide in favor of incorporation, a certificate
  of incorporation may be filed in accordance with  section  four  hundred
  three hereof.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 405 - Re-Incorporation of Existing Corporation.

§  405.  Re-incorporation  of  existing  corporation.  Any  previously
  incorporated  society,  to  which  this  article  is   applicable,   may
  re-incorporate  it  under  the  provisions  of  this article by the same
  procedure set  forth  for  incorporation,  substituting  at  appropriate
  places  the  word  "re-incorporate"  for "incorporate" and by filing the
  certificate of incorporation in the office of the county  clerk  in  the
  county  in  which  its  principal place of worship or office is located.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of  section  four  hundred  two  of  this
  article,  the  requirements  for a quorum for the general transaction of
  business as set forth in the by-laws of the existing corporation,  shall
  determine   the   requirements   for   a   quorum   at   a  meeting  for
  re-incorporation pursuant to this section, unless there shall be no such
  provision in the said by-laws, in which  case  the  requirements  for  a
  quorum set forth in section four hundred two shall govern.
The  re-incorporated corporation shall be deemed a continuation of the
  previously organized corporation, but thereafter it shall have only such
  rights and powers and be subject only to such obligations as  any  other
  corporation created under this article nineteen, provided, however, that
  all   property  rights  and  liabilities  of  the  previously  organized
  corporation shall be  vested  in  and  assumed  by  the  re-incorporated
  corporation.  The  corporate by-laws and officers of the re-incorporated
  corporation shall be the same as those of its predecessor until  changed
  pursuant to the said by-laws.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 406 - Time, Place and Notice of Corporate Meetings.

§  406.  Time,  place and notice of corporate meetings. (a) The annual
corporate meeting of every society 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 of any such society may be called by the
board of trustees thereof, on its own motion, and shall be called on the
written request of at least ten qualified voters of such society and  in
such other manner as the by-laws may prescribe.
(b)  The notices of any annual or special meeting shall state the time
and place where it is to be held and shall  be  mailed  to  each  member
entitled  to  vote not less than ten nor more than fifty days before the
meeting. Notices shall be mailed to each member  at  the  address  which
appears  on  the  books  or records of the corporation.  The by-laws may
provide for additional methods of giving notice.
(c) Notice of any special meeting shall state the purpose or  purposes
for  which  the meeting is called and no business shall be transacted at
such special meeting except that contained in such notice.
(d) Any provision in the statute or a by-law that a particular  action
can be taken only at a meeting "called for that purpose" shall be deemed
to  require  notice  of  such  purpose  as provided in this section four
hundred six. This does not preclude the transaction of other business at
the same meeting if the notice so states.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 407 - Qualifications of Members and Voters.

§  407. Qualifications of members and voters. (a) Each person admitted
to membership  pursuant  to  the  by-laws  shall  be  a  member  of  the
corporation  until  his membership shall terminate by death, resignation
or as otherwise provided in the by-laws.
(b) Every member of the society  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  unless
otherwise provided in the by-laws. Every voting member shall be entitled
to one vote. Voting shall be in person only and not by proxy.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 408 - Trustees.

§  408.  Trustees.  (a)  The  society  shall  be  administered  by its
trustees.  The trustees shall be responsible to the members.
(b) The by-laws shall provide for the term of office of  the  trustees
and may provide for the division of the trustees into classes.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 409 - Ministers.

§  409.  Ministers.  Any  minister  shall be called or removed and the
  salary fixed or changed by a vote of the majority of the members present
  and voting at a meeting of such corporation  called  for  that  purpose,
  unless the by-laws provide otherwise.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 410 - By-Laws.

§  410. By-laws. (a) The initial by-laws of a society shall be adopted
at the meeting for incorporation. By-laws  may  thereafter  be  amended,
repealed  or  adopted  as provided in the by-laws. But in the absence of
such provision, by-laws may be amended, repealed or adopted by a vote of
two-thirds of the members present and voting at a meeting of the members
called for that purpose.
(b) The substance of any proposed by-law change shall be stated in the
notice to members of the meeting.
(c) The by-laws may contain any provision relating to the business  of
the  society, the conduct of its affairs and the rights or powers of its
members, trustees and officers, not inconsistent with  this  article  or
any other applicable statute, or the certificate of incorporation.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 411 - Real Estate.

§  411.  Real  estate. (a) A society shall not sell or mortgage any of
its real property without applying for and obtaining leave of the  court
therefor   pursuant   to   the   provisions   of  article  five  of  the
not-for-profit corporation law.
(b) If a sale or mortgage of any real property of any such society has
been heretofore or shall be hereafter made and a conveyance or  mortgage
executed  and  delivered  without  the authority of a court of competent
jurisdiction, obtained as required by law, or not in accordance with its
directions, the court may,  thereafter,  upon  the  application  of  the
corporation,  or  of  the grantee or mortgagee in any such conveyance or
mortgage or of any person claiming through or under any such grantee  or
mortgagee  upon  such  notice to such corporation, or its successor, and
such other person or persons as may be interested in such  property,  as
the  court may prescribe, confirm said previously executed conveyance or
mortgage,  and  order  and  direct  the  execution  and  delivery  of  a
confirmatory  deed  or  mortgage,  or the recording of such confirmatory
order in the office where deeds and mortgages are recorded in the county
in which the property is located; and  upon  compliance  with  the  said
order  such original conveyance or mortgage shall be as valid and of the
same force and effect as if it has been executed and delivered after due
proceedings had in accordance with the statute and the direction of  the
court.
(c)  The  provisions  of this section shall not apply to real property
heretofore or hereafter acquired on a sale in an  action  or  proceeding
for  the  foreclosure  of  a  mortgage  owned  by a society or held by a
trustee for or in behalf of a society or to real property heretofore  or
hereafter acquired by a society or held by a trustee for or in behalf of
a society by deed in lieu of the foreclosure of a mortgage owned, either
in  whole  or  in  part,  whether in certificate form or otherwise, by a
society.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 413 - Dissolution.

§  413.  Dissolution. (a) Whenever two-thirds of the voting members of
the society, present at a meeting called for  that  purpose,  decide  to
dissolve  the  corporation,  they  may,  by its duly elected officers or
trustees or such agents as may  be  elected  at  such  meeting,  make  a
petition to the supreme court for an order of dissolution.
(b) Such petition shall state:
(1) The particular reasons or causes why dissolution is sought.
(2)  The  location,  extent and estimated value of the property of the
society.
(3) The particular object or purposes  to  which  it  is  proposed  to
devote any surplus of the proceeds of such property, such purposes to be
consistent  with  the  general  purposes  of  the Unitarian Universalist
Association.
(4) The due compliance with the provisions of this section as  to  the
authorization of the filing of the certificate of amendment.
(c)  Copy  of  the  petition  shall  be  mailed  to all members of the
corporation and shall be published at  least  once  in  a  newspaper  of
general circulation in the county where the society is located.
(d)  A  copy of the petition shall also be mailed, by registered mail,
to the Unitarian Universalist Association.  The  dissolution  shall  not
require  the  consent of the Unitarian Universalist Association, but the
Unitarian Universalist Association shall have a right to be heard in the
proceedings.
(e) Proof of the notices required by subdivisions (c) and  (d)  hereof
shall  be  filed  with  the supreme court and no hearing on the petition
shall be held by the supreme court until four weeks have  elapsed  after
the giving of all such notices.
(f)  Upon  consideration  of  the petition presented to the court, and
after any hearing which the court may  in  its  discretion  deem  to  be
necessary  or appropriate to determine any facts pertinent to the relief
requested in the petition, the court may order the  dissolution  of  the
society,  and for that purpose and upon such terms and conditions deemed
appropriate order and direct a  sale  and  conveyance  of  any  and  all
property   belonging   to  such  society.     After  providing  for  the
ascertaining and payment of the debts of the society and  the  necessary
costs  and  expenses  of  such sale and proceedings for dissolution, the
court may direct any surplus of the  proceeds  of  such  sale  remaining
after  paying  such debts, costs and expenses, to be devoted and applied
to any such religious, benevolent, educational or charitable objects  or
purposes   consistent   with  the  general  purposes  of  the  Unitarian
Universalist Association as the petitioners may suggest  and  the  court
may approve.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 19 - Unitarian and Universalist Societies › 414 - Amendment.

§ 414. Amendment. A society may amend its certificate of incorporation
at  any time, provided that such amendment contains only such provisions
as  might  be  properly  contained  in  an   original   certificate   of
incorporation  filed  at  the  time  of  making such amendment. Any such
amendment must be authorized by vote of two-thirds of the members of the
society present and voting at a  meeting  called  for  that  purpose.  A
certificate  amending  the  certificate of incorporation shall be signed
and verified by the president or chairman  of  the  board  of  trustees,
shall  be  filed  in  the  same  manner  as  an  original certificate of
incorporation and shall contain the following:
(1) The name of the society and, if it  has  been  changed,  the  name
under which it was originally incorporated.
(2)  The  date  and  place  of  filing  of the original certificate of
incorporation and any subsequent amendments thereto.
(3) Each amendment effected thereby.
(4) A statement as to due  compliance  with  the  provisions  in  this
section  as  to  the  authorization  of the filing of the certificate of
amendment.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 20 - Assemblies of God Churches › 420 - Application.

§  420.  Application.  1.  This  article applies to any unincorporated
  church, church school, seminary or other  organization  affiliated  with
  the  New  York  district  of  the  Assemblies of God or with the general
  council of the Assemblies  of  God  with  headquarters  at  Springfield,
  Missouri,  and  to  any  heretofore  incorporated  church  or  body,  so
  affiliated, which desires to reincorporate pursuant to this article.
2.  Nothing  hereinafter  provided  shall  prevent  or  prohibit   any
  heretofore  incorporated  church  or  body, affiliated with the New York
  district of the Assemblies of God or with the  general  council  of  the
  Assemblies  of  God,  from  maintaining  and continuing the relationship
  which such church or body enjoyed at the time of the effective  date  of
  this  article  should such church or body determine not to reincorporate
  pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 20 - Assemblies of God Churches › 421 - Assemblies of God Schools; Seminaries and Agencies of Social Relief.

§  421.  Assemblies  of God schools; seminaries and agencies of social
  relief. 1. Any church school, biblical seminary for the  preparation  of
  candidates  for  the  ministry leading to ordination and the granting of
  credentials of ecclesiastical degrees  in  theology,  other  than  those
  authorized  by  the  rules  of  the  board  of  regents,  or association
  established for evangelical efforts or for the relief of  the  poor  and
  the socially needy, which is intended to be an auxiliary organization of
  the  Assemblies  of God and where a chapel for the conduct of worship is
  provided, shall be deemed a church to all intents and  purposes  and  be
  subject  thereby  to  all  the  provisions of this article, except where
  otherwise indicated, and may be incorporated or  reincorporated  in  the
  manner prescribed in this article as a church of the Assemblies of God.
2.  Such  church  school,  biblical  seminary or association, shall be
  required to adopt a constitution and by-laws not inconsistent  with  the
  provisions  of  this  article.  The  constitution  and  by-laws  must be
  submitted to the New York district of the Assemblies of God for approval
  in writing, and become effective and binding only upon receipt  of  such
  approval.  All  future  amendments to the constitution and by-laws shall
  not be inconsistent with the provisions of this article.
3. In  any  case  where  such  church  school,  biblical  seminary  or
  association  does  not  have  within its organization the positions of a
  minister or officiating minister and where the provisions of any section
  of this article designate such person or persons to fulfill any function
  pertaining  to  incorporation  or  corporate  affairs,  there  shall  be
  substituted  therefor  the  names  of  whatever persons or positions are
  designated in the organization's duly approved constitution and  by-laws
  to fulfill functions of leadership.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 20 - Assemblies of God Churches › 422 - Approval for Incorporation.

§  422.  Approval for incorporation. Any unincorporated church wishing
  to incorporate as an Assemblies of God church under this  article  shall
  first apply to the presbytery of the New York district of the Assemblies
  of God for written approval. Upon receipt of such approval, the applying
  church may become an incorporated church by executing, acknowledging and
  filing  a  certificate  of  incorporation as hereinafter provided. There
  shall  be  attached  to  such  certificate  the  written  permission  to
  incorporate  by the New York district of the Assemblies of God, or their
  successor.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 20 - Assemblies of God Churches › 423 - Qualification of Voters.

§ 423. Qualification of voters. 1. The following persons and no others
  shall be qualified voters for all purposes under this article, except as
  set  forth in subdivision two of this section. All persons sixteen years
  of age or over who are members in  good  and  regular  standing  of  the
  church  or  body  by  admission into membership therewith, in accordance
  with the standard for membership in the local church  as  determined  by
  the  local church itself, or with the standard set by agreement with the
  New York district of the Assemblies of God.
2. In the case of a church school, biblical seminary or association of
  the type set forth in subdivision one of section four hundred twenty-one
  of this  article  the  by-laws  and  constitution  of  such  body  shall
  determine  the qualifications of voters, providing such constitution and
  by-laws have received the written approval of the New York  district  of
  the  Assemblies  of  God, as provided in subdivision two of section four
  hundred twenty-one of this article.
2023 New York Laws › RCO - Religious Corporations › Article 20 - Assemblies of God Churches › 424 - Notice of Meeting for Incorporation.

§  424.  Notice  of meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for
  the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated church shall be given  as
  follows:
1.  The notice 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 electing any multiple of three trustees thereof but  not
  to exceed twenty-four.
2.  The notice must by signed by at least six qualified voters. A copy
  of such notice shall be publicly read at each  of  the  two  consecutive
  Sunday  mornings, or main worship services of such unincorporated church
  preceding the  meeting  to  incorporate,  by  the  first  named  of  the
  following  persons  who is present thereat, to wit: the minister of such
  church, the officiating minister thereof, the members of the  church  in
  the  order  of  their  age  beginning  with  the  oldest,  or any person
  qualified to sign such notice.
3. In the case where a church school, biblical seminary or association
  of the type set  forth  in  subdivision  one  of  section  four  hundred
  twenty-one  of  this  article  does  not  hold  regular  Sunday  worship
  services, written notice of the  time  and  place  of  the  meeting  for
  incorporation  shall  be  delivered  or  read  according  to  the manner
  prescribed by the duly approved constitution and by-laws  of  such  body
  intending to incorporate.