N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 106: Incorporation of churches of Orthodox Church in America

§ 106. Incorporation of churches of Orthodox Church in America. An

unincorporated American Orthodox church in this state may be

incorporated 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. There shall be attached to such

certificate the permission to incorporate signed by the metropolitan

archbishop or other primate or hierarch of the Orthodox Church in

America, or by the locum tenens acting in his place. Such certificate

of incorporation shall be executed and acknowledged by six lay members

of such church.

On filing such certificate such church shall be a corporation by the

name stated in the certificate.