N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 187: Certificate of incorporation

§ 187. Certificate of incorporation. If the meeting shall decide that

such unincorporated church or society shall become incorporated, the

presiding officer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election,

shall execute and acknowledge a certificate of incorporation, 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,

as hereinbefore provided in this chapter, 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 or society shall be

the trustees thereof for the terms for which they were respectively so

elected, or until their respective successors shall be elected and take

office.