N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 403: Certificate of incorporation

§ 403. Certificate of incorporation. (a) If the meeting held pursuant

to section four hundred two shall decide that the unincorporated society

shall become incorporated, the presiding officer of such meeting and the

two inspectors of election shall execute a certificate entitled

"Certificate of Incorporation pursuant to article nineteen of the

Religious Corporations Law." This certificate shall state:

(1) the name of the proposed corporation,

(2) a statement that it is a member of the Unitarian Universalist

Association,

(3) the number of trustees thereof or that the number of trustees

shall not be less than a stated minimum nor more than a stated maximum,

(4) the names and residences of the trustees until the first annual

meeting,

(5) the terms of office for which the trustees were respectively

elected,

(6) the county, town, city or village in which the principal place of

worship or office is or is intended to be located.

(b) On the filing and recording of such certificate the persons

qualified to vote at such meeting and those persons 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 society shall be

the trustees thereof for the terms for which they were respectively

elected and until their respective successors shall be elected.