N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 323: Certificate of incorporation

§ 323. Certificate of incorporation. The presiding officer of such a

meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat shall

be appointed at such a meeting to execute and acknowledge, before any

person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate of

incorporation which shall have been submitted to and approved by such

meeting. Such certificate shall set forth: the place and date of said

meeting for incorporation; the name of said church; the township,

village or city, and the county in which said church shall be located;

the statement that there were six or more qualified voters present at

the meeting where this act of incorporation was authorized; the names

and respective periods of office of the trustees elected; the signatures

and residences of those authorized to execute and acknowledge the

certificate of incorporation; the approval of the district

superintendent of the district in which the church is located; and a

statement that the corporation shall support the doctrine and shall be

subject to the laws, usages and ministerial appointments of The United

Methodist Church as from time to time established, made and declared by

the lawful authority of said church. On the filing of such certificate

in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such church

shall be located the members of such church qualified to vote at such

meeting and those 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.