N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 50: Application for incorporation

§ 50. Application for incorporation. An unincorporated Apostolic

Episcopal Church, or a congregation acknowledging the historic apostolic

eastern confession and order in this state, may apply to the bishop who

is the ecclesiastical administrator of Metropolitan Synod Apostolic

Episcopal Church for permission and sanction to incorporate such church.

When such permission aforesaid has been obtained in writing over the

signature and seal of such bishop, such church may become an

incorporated church by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate

of incorporation as hereinafter provided.

Any religious order, biblical seminary for the preparation of

candidates for the ministry, leading to ordination and the granting of

credentials of ecclesiastical degrees of orders in sacred theology, or

religious society established for evangelical efforts or the relief of

the poor and needy, which is intended to be an auxiliary organization of

the Apostolic Episcopal Church, where a chapel for the conduct of

worship is provided, shall be deemed a congregation to all intents and

purposes, and may be incorporated in the manner prescribed in this

article as a congregation of the Apostolic Episcopal Church.