N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 480: Application

§ 480. Application. 1. This article applies to any unincorporated

church affiliated with the Islamic faith, and to any heretofore

incorporated church or body, so affiliated, which desires to

reincorporate pursuant to this article. Independent churches may

incorporate or reincorporate under this article in the manner provided

in sections four hundred eighty-one and four hundred eighty-seven of

this article, and all the provisions of this article shall apply to such

churches as the context requires.

2. Nothing hereinafter provided shall prevent or prohibit any

heretofore incorporated church or body, affiliated with the Islamic

faith from maintaining and continuing the relationship which such church

or body enjoyed at the time of the effective date of this article should

such church or body determine not to reincorporate pursuant to this

article.