N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 19: Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and Sunday schools

§ 19. Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and

Sunday schools. Ten or more members of two or more incorporated churches

may become a corporation for the purpose of organizing and maintaining

mission churches and Sunday schools, and of acquiring property therefor,

by executing a certificate stating the name of such corporation, the

city in which its principal office or church or school is or is intended

to be located; the number of trustees to manage its affairs, which shall

be three, six or nine, and the names of the trustees for the first year

of its existence, which certificate shall be acknowledged or proved and

filed as hereinbefore provided. Whenever a mission church established

by such corporation becomes self-sustaining, such mission church may

become incorporated and shall be governed under the provisions of this

chapter for the incorporation and government of a church of the

religious denomination to which such mission church belongs, and thereon

such parent corporation may convey to such incorporated church the

property connected therewith.