N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 294: Certificate of incorporation

§ 294. Certificate of incorporation. 1. A certificate of

incorporation for a church, society, or committee, to which this article

is applicable shall be executed and acknowledged by the trustees who

sign the resolution for incorporation.

The said certificate of incorporation shall contain the following:

(a) the name by which the proposed corporation shall be known.

(b) the number of trustees thereof; the names and addresses of the

persons elected as trustees; and the term of office for which they were

respectively elected.

(c) the name of county, town, city or village in which the principal

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

(d) the purpose and intent for which said corporation is created, to

be set forth as follows:

"The purpose and intent of this corporation is to maintain, propagate,

practice and forever perpetuate religious worship, services, sacraments

and teaching in full accordance and unity with the doctrine, ritual,

canon law, faith, practice, discipline, and traditions and usages of the

Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church; and for the carrying

out of said purpose and intent, to form and maintain a religious

organization or church adherent and obedient to the Orthodox

ecclesiastical jurisdiction and authority, and to the Orthodox hierarch,

bishop or administrator, selected by the members applying for

incorporation, and certified by the Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary

Jurisdictions in America, through the secretariat thereof, as canonical

and appropriate for the Orthodox communicant members comprising this

corporation."

(e) In the certificate of incorporation of societies or organizations,

other than parishes, special purposes, additional to the above, may be

set forth.

2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the

county in which the place of worship or office of such corporation is or

is intended to be located, such church, society or committee shall be a

corporation by the name stated in the certificate and the persons

therein declared to be trustees of such corporation shall be trustees

until their successors are elected.