N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 411: Real estate

§ 411. Real estate. (a) A society shall not sell or mortgage any of

its real property without applying for and obtaining leave of the court

therefor pursuant to the provisions of article five of the

not-for-profit corporation law.

(b) If a sale or mortgage of any real property of any such society has

been heretofore or shall be hereafter made and a conveyance or mortgage

executed and delivered without the authority of a court of competent

jurisdiction, obtained as required by law, or not in accordance with its

directions, the court may, thereafter, upon the application of the

corporation, or of the grantee or mortgagee in any such conveyance or

mortgage or of any person claiming through or under any such grantee or

mortgagee upon such notice to such corporation, or its successor, and

such other person or persons as may be interested in such property, as

the court may prescribe, confirm said previously executed conveyance or

mortgage, and order and direct the execution and delivery of a

confirmatory deed or mortgage, or the recording of such confirmatory

order in the office where deeds and mortgages are recorded in the county

in which the property is located; and upon compliance with the said

order such original conveyance or mortgage shall be as valid and of the

same force and effect as if it has been executed and delivered after due

proceedings had in accordance with the statute and the direction of the

court.

(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to real property

heretofore or hereafter acquired on a sale in an action or proceeding

for the foreclosure of a mortgage owned by a society or held by a

trustee for or in behalf of a society or to real property heretofore or

hereafter acquired by a society or held by a trustee for or in behalf of

a society by deed in lieu of the foreclosure of a mortgage owned, either

in whole or in part, whether in certificate form or otherwise, by a

society.