N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 340: Resolutions to be adopted at the meeting for incorporation

§ 340. Resolutions to be adopted at the meeting for incorporation. 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 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 Byelorussian Autocephalic 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

jurisdictions and in obedience to bishops acknowledged and certified by

the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America; and

Whereas, the signors thereof are the trustees, duly elected as such at

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

hundred .......... , in accordance with article eighteen of the

religious corporations law; and

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

incorporate as a Church of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church

in America under the name of (here give the corporate name by which such

church 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 archbishop, bishop or administrator) to whose

jurisdiction and authority this corporation shall adhere.

Therefore it is hereby resolved, that this congregation shall become

and remain an incorporated church of the aforesaid jurisdiction in full

unity of communion, faith and discipline with the Byelorussian

Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America and that the clergymen trustees

of this said church shall be the archbishop, or bishop, who is the

administrator of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in

America and rector of this church, and their successors in office, shall

by virtue of their offices, be the clergymen trustees of this church,

which said two officers together, with the .......... laymen trustees

elected at this incorporation meeting, shall constitute the trustees

thereof. Said clergymen trustees' term of office shall continue until

their successors in said office are elected by the governing

ecclesiastical body of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church,

and said laymen trustees' term of office shall be that fixed by statute.