N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 53: Resolution to be adopted at incorporation meeting

§ 53. Resolution to be adopted at incorporation meeting. At such

meeting held for the incorporation of such parish, church or

congregation as an Apostolic Episcopal Church, 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 Apostolic

Episcopal Church 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 bishop 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 Apostolic Episcopal

Church, and said laymen trustees term of office shall be that fixed by

statute."