N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 162: The certificate of incorporation

§ 162. 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 trustees thereof, the names of the persons elected as

trustees, 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.