N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 293: Provisions governing meetings for incorporation and resolutions to be adopted thereat

§ 293. Provisions governing meetings for incorporation and resolutions

to be adopted thereat. 1. At the meeting for incorporation, held in

pursuance of such notice, qualified voters shall be those qualified

under the by-laws of such unincorporated church, congregation, parish,

society or committee, or in the absence of such by-laws, the persons

qualified to vote in parish meetings in accordance with the rules and

regulations or general usages of that jurisdiction of the Orthodox Greek

Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church to which the proposed corporation is

to adhere.

2. The meeting shall be called to order by the priest in charge of the

parish, congregation, society, or committee or, in his absence, by one

of the signers of the notice and shall elect the customarily required

officers to conduct the meeting. In order to incorporate under this

article the meeting shall adopt the following resolution by a majority

of its qualified voters, present and voting, to wit:

WHEREAS, this (congregation, parish, church, society or committee) was

founded and established, and thereby a permanent trust was created, for

the purpose and intent of adhering to, maintaining and promoting

religious worship and teaching according to the communion, doctrine,

discipline, rite, canon law, traditions and usages of the Orthodox Greek

Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church; and

WHEREAS, such purpose and intent and the trust thereby created can be

fully effected and safeguarded only in complete canonical unity with

Orthodox jurisdictions and in obedience to Orthodox Greek Catholic

bishops acknowledged and certified by the Federated Orthodox Greek

Catholic Primary Jurisdictions in America; and

WHEREAS, the signers hereof are the trustees, duly elected as such at

a meeting duly held on the ............. day of ........ , nineteen

hundred ..... , in accordance with article fifteen of the religious

corporations law; and

WHEREAS, by a majority vote the said meeting has determined to

incorporate under said article as a (parish, society or committee) of

the Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church under the name of

.............................. (here give the corporate name by which

such church, society or committee is to be known); and

WHEREAS, permission and sanction for such incorporation has been given

and certified in accordance with the provisions of said article by

.............................. (here name the appropriate hierarch,

bishop or administrator) to whose jurisdiction and authority this

corporation shall adhere,

Therefore it is hereby

RESOLVED, that this (congregation, parish, church, society or

committee) shall become and remain an incorporated (parish, society or

committee) of the aforesaid jurisdiction in full unity of communion,

faith and discipline with the Federated Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary

Jurisdictions in America.