N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 190: Application of this article

§ 190. Application of this article. This article is not applicable to

a Baptist church, a Congregational Christian church, whether or not a

part of the United Church of Christ, a church of the United Church of

Christ incorporated after September first, nineteen hundred seventy-one,

an Independent church, a United Methodist church, a Protestant Episcopal

church, a Roman Catholic church, a Presbyterian church in connection

with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United

States of America, a Christian Orthodox Catholic church of the Eastern

Confession, a Ruthenian Greek Catholic church, or a Church of Christ,

Scientist. No provision of this article is applicable to a reformed

church in America, a True Reformed Dutch church in the United States of

America, a Reformed Presbyterian church, or to an Evangelical Lutheran

church, incorporated after October first, eighteen hundred and

ninety-five, except as declared to be so applicable by article six of

this chapter; this article is applicable to an Evangelical Lutheran

church incorporated before October first, eighteen hundred ninety-five,

if the trustees thereof were then elective as such and so long as they

continue to be elective as such. Article six of this chapter is

applicable to an Evangelical Lutheran church incorporated before October

first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, if its trustees were not then

elective as such and so long as its trustees continue not to be elective

as such. This article is applicable to churches of all other

denominations.