N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 50-dd: Resolution to be adopted at incorporation meeting

§ 50-dd. Resolution to be adopted at incorporation meeting. At such

meeting held for the incorporation of such parish, church or

congregation as of the Holy Orthodox Church in America, by whatever

corporate name said church shall take, the following resolution shall be

passed by a majority of the qualified voters of such meeting, to wit:

"Resolved, that whereas, it has been decided by a majority vote to

incorporate said church under the name of (here give the corporate name

by which such church is to be known) as a congregation of the Holy

Orthodox Church in America and under the spiritual jurisdiction of

Metropolitan Synod of such denomination; we likewise, by a majority vote

of the duly qualified voters at this meeting, held for the incorporation

of said church, now decide that the clergymen trustees of this said

church shall be the archbishop who is the ecclesiastical administrator,

the vicar-general and the chancellor of the aforesaid metropolitan synod

and the rector or vicar of this church, and their successors in office,

shall by virtue of their offices, be the clergymen trustees of this

church, which said four officers together with the ................

laymen trustees elected at this incorporation meeting, shall constitute

the trustees thereof. Said clergymen trustees' term of office shall

continue until their successors in said office are elected by the

Metropolitan Synod Holy Orthodox Church in America, and said laymen

trustees term of office shall be that fixed by statute. "