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

§ 50-aa. Application for incorporation. An unincorporated congregation

of the Holy Orthodox Church in America, or a congregation acknowledging

the historic apostolic eastern confession and order in this state, may

apply to the archbishop who is the ecclestiastical administrator of

Metropolitan Synod, Holy Orthodox Church in America for permission and

sanction to incorporate such church. When such permission aforesaid has

been obtained in writing over the signature and seal of such archbishop,

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 Holy Orthodox Church in America, 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 Holy Orthodox Church in America.