N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-e: Effect upon existing corporations

§ 225-e. Effect upon existing corporations. Every free Methodist

church heretofore incorporated in the state of New York shall, three

months after this article takes effect, automatically come under its

provisions, unless in the meantime it shall elect by a two-thirds vote

of all its members in full connection to remain under the provisions of

the general or special law applicable thereto at such time. A

certificate of such vote shall be filed in the office of the clerk of

the county in which the principal place of worship of such corporation

is located and shall be recorded by such clerk in the book in which

certificates of religious corporations are recorded pursuant to law.