N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law § 1407: Alumni corporations

§ 1407. Alumni corporations.

(a) Alumni may be incorporated.

The alumni of any college or university, or of one or more colleges or

schools of any university, may be incorporated by executing and filing a

certificate pursuant to article 4 of this chapter.

(b) Type of corporation.

An alumni corporation is a charitable corporation.

(c) Powers.

An alumni corporation may create, manage and control a fund, to be

known as the alumni fund, and for that purpose acquire and hold real and

personal property. The principal of such fund, or the income derived

therefrom, may be transferred to the college or university with which

such corporation is identified, or used for and applied to such object

or objects connected with such college or university as such alumni

corporation shall direct.

(d) Alumni fund.

The directors of an alumni corporation shall have the custody and

management of the alumni fund but shall not dispose of the whole or any

part of the principal of any invested fund except as authorized by a

two-thirds vote of the members of such corporation, present at an annual

meeting thereof.