N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 193: The certificate of incorporation

§ 193. The certificate of incorporation. The presiding officer of

such meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat,

shall execute and acknowledge a certificate of incorporation, setting

forth the matters so determined at such meeting, the trustees elected

thereat and the terms of office for which they were respectively elected

and the county, town, city or village in which its principal place of

worship is or is intended to be located. On filing such certificate the

members of such church and the persons qualified to vote at such meeting

and 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 so elected.