N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-c: Certificate of incorporation

§ 225-c. Certificate of incorporation. 1. The presiding officer of

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

shall be appointed by such meeting to execute and acknowledge, before

any person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate of

incorporation whereby they shall agree to be governed by the discipline,

rules and usages of the Free Methodist Church of North America. To such

certificate of incorporation there shall be attached a certificate

signed by the district superintendent of the district in which said

church is to be located, stating that the said church is incorporated by

and with the consent of said district superintendent.

2. This certificate of incorporation shall contain the following

items: The name of said church; the township, village or city, and the

county in which said church shall be located; and agreement to worship

and labor together according to the discipline, rules and usages of the

Free Methodist Church of North America; the statement that there were

six or more qualified voters present at the meeting where they were

elected and this act of incorporation was authorized; the names and

respective periods of office of the trustees elected; the place and date

of said meeting for incorporation; and the signatures and residences of

those authorized to execute and acknowledge this certificate of

incorporation.

3. This certificate of incorporation shall be executed in duplicate.

One of such duplicate copies shall be retained by such corporation and

one copy shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the

county where such corporation is formed. On filing such certificate the

members either in full connection or on probation of such church

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

elected, and until their successors are elected.