N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 53-a: Provisions governing meetings for incorporation

§ 53-a. Provisions governing meetings for incorporation. 1. If the

meeting shall decide that such unincorporated church shall become an

incorporated church or congregation of the American Patriarchal Orthodox

Church, a certificate of incorporation therefor shall be executed and

acknowledged by the archbishop who is the ecclesiastical administrator,

the vicar-general and the chancellor of Patriarchal Synod, the rector or

vicar of the church or congregation and by the laymen trustees that have

been elected, and by the clerk of the corporation, and the said

certificate of incorporation shall contain the following:

(a) The name of the proposed corporation;

(b) The number of laymen trustees thereof, the names of the persons

elected as laymen trustees, the terms of office for which they were

respectively elected as laymen trustees;

(c) An exact copy of the resolution which provides for the clerical

trustees by virtue of their offices;

(d) The county and town, city or village in which the principal place

of worship is or is intended to be located.

2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the

county in which such church is or is intended to be located, such church

shall be a corporation by the name stated in the certificate, and the

persons therein stated to be elected clerical and laymen trustees of

such church shall be the trustees therefor for their respective terms

and until their successors are elected.