N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 181: Rights, powers and limitations

§ 181. Rights, powers and limitations. Upon the filing of such

certificate the persons named therein as trustees, and their successors,

being citizens of the United States and residents of this state, shall

be a body politic and corporate, with all the rights, powers and duties,

and subject to all the restrictions and obligations and other

provisions, so far as the same may be applicable and consistent with

this article, specified and contained in the act entitled "An act for

the incorporation of benevolent, charitable, scientific and missionary

societies," passed April twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and

the act amending the same, passed April seventh, eighteen hundred and

forty-nine, except that the limitation in the first of the said acts of

the value of real estate that may be held by any society in the city or

county of New York, incorporated under this article, shall not be

applicable to any church edifice erected or owned by such society, or

the lot of ground on which the same may be built; and except that the

provision in the first of the said acts, in relation to the personal

liability of the trustees, shall be applicable only to the trustees who

shall have assented to the creation of any debt.