N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 426: Certificate of incorporation

§ 426. Certificate of incorporation. 1. If at the meeting for

incorporation it shall be decided that such unincorporated church shall

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

inspectors of election shall execute and acknowledge a certificate of

incorporation, in which shall be stated the name or title by which such

body shall be known in the law; the purpose of its organization; the

names and addresses of the trustees elected thereat and the terms of

office for which they were respectively elected; the county, town or

city in which its principal place of worship is or is intended to be

located; and a statement that the corporation shall support the doctrine

and be subject to the constitution and by-laws of and be in conformity

with the principles of the general council of the Assemblies of God and

the New York district of the Assemblies of God as from time to time

established, made and declared by the lawful authority of said general

council of the Assemblies of God and New York district of the Assemblies

of God.

2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the

county in which such corporate body is or is intended to be located,

such church shall be a corporation by the name stated in the certificate

of incorporation; but such certificate shall not be filed, unless there

is affixed thereto the written permission of the New York district of

the Assemblies of God to incorporate, pursuant to section four hundred

twenty-two of this article.

3. The certificate of incorporation shall further contain a provision

that, in the event of dissolution of the corporation, all the remaining

assets and property of the corporation shall, after necessary expenses

thereof, be distributed to either the New York district of the

Assemblies of God, or to the general council of the Assemblies of God,

their successors and assigns, and that in the event said New York

district of the Assemblies of God or general council of the Assemblies

of God or if their successor is not in existence at the time of

dissolution, then such assets are to be distributed to such other

Assemblies of God organizations as shall qualify under section 501 (c)

(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, to be used in such

manner as in the judgment of a justice of the supreme court shall best

accomplish the general purposes for which the corporation was formed.