N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 112: Incorporation of Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Evangelical Lutheran churches under this article

§ 112. Incorporation of Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and

Evangelical Lutheran churches under this article. If any unincorporated

church in connection with the Reformed church in America, the true

Reformed Dutch church in the United States of America, the Reformed

Presbyterian church, or with the Evangelical Lutheran church, determine

to incorporate in pursuance of this article, the minister or ministers

and the elders and deacons thereof shall execute, acknowledge and cause

to be filed and recorded, a certificate in pursuance of this article.

The deacons of a Reformed Presbyterian church may alone sign such

certificate if authorized so to do by such church. Such certificate of

incorporation shall state the name of the proposed corporation, the

county and town, city or village where its principal place of worship is

or is intended to be located, and, if it be an Evangelical Lutheran

church, the fact that a meeting of such church duly called decided that

it be incorporated under this article. If it be signed by the deacons

of a Reformed Presbyterian church, it shall state that they were

authorized so to do by such church. On filing such certificate such

church shall be a corporation by the name stated therein, and the

minister or ministers, if any, and the elders and deacons of such church

shall by virtue of their offices be the trustees of such corporation,

except that if it be a Reformed Presbyterian church, the certificate of

incorporation of which shall have been, in pursuance of law, signed by

its deacons only, the deacons of such church shall, by virtue of their

offices, be the trustees of such corporation.