N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 132: The certificate of incorporation

§ 132. The certificate of incorporation. If the meeting shall decide

that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding

officer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall execute

a certificate setting forth the name of the proposed corporation, the

number of the trustees thereof, the names of the persons elected as

trustees and the terms of office for which they were respectively

elected and the county and town, city or village in which its principal

place of worship is or is intended to be located. On the filing and

recording of such certificate after it shall have been acknowledged or

proved as hereinbefore provided, 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 church shall be the

trustees thereof, for the terms for which they were respectively elected

and until their respective successors shall be elected.