N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 4: Property of unincorporated society transferred by its incorporation

§ 4. Property of unincorporated society transferred by its

incorporation. All the temporalities and property of an unincorporated

church, or of any unincorporated religious society, body, association or

congregation, shall, on the incorporation thereof, become the

temporalities and property of such corporation, whether such

temporalities or property be given, granted or devised directly to such

unincorporated church, society, body, association or congregation, or to

any other person for the use or benefit thereof.