N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 265: The certificate of incorporation

§ 265. The certificate of incorporation. If the meeting shall decide

that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding

officer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall execute

a certificate setting forth the name of the proposed corporation, the

number of trustees thereof, the names of the persons elected as

trustees, the terms of office for which they were respectively elected,

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

worship is, or is intended to be located. The name of such church as

adopted shall bear the words "in connection with the General Assembly of

Spiritualists." On the filing and recording of such certificate, after

it shall have been acknowledged or proved as hereinbefore provided, the

persons qualified to vote at such meeting and those persons 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 respective successors shall be

elected.