N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 201-a: Incorporation of the Religious Society of Friends

§ 201-a Incorporation of the Religious Society of Friends. An

unincorporated meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in this state

may be incorporated by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate

of incorporation, stating the corporate name by which such meeting shall

be known, and the county, town, city or village where its principal

place of worship or principal office is or is intended to be located.

Such certificate of incorporation shall be executed and acknowledged by

the clerk of such meeting, and shall have attached thereto a statement,

duly executed and acknowledged by the secretary, assistant clerk or such

person as shall have the duty of recording the transactions of business

sessions of meetings of such meeting, certifying that at a business

session or meeting of such meeting, duly held and upon not less than

thirty days notice, to the members thereof, as hereinafter provided, by

a minute of the proceedings thereat, duly approved according to the

usage and custom of such meeting, the clerk of such meeting was

authorized and directed to execute and file such certificate of

incorporation. Such notice shall be in writing, shall be given by mail

addressed to the last known address of each member of such meeting

according to the records thereof, and shall state in substance that a

meeting of such unincorporated meeting will be held at its usual place

of convening at a specified date and hour for the purpose of

incorporating such meeting. On the filing of such certificate in

accordance with the provisions of this chapter, such meeting shall be a

corporation by the name stated in the certificate.