N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 54: Certificate of incorporation

§ 54. Certificate of incorporation. 1. If the meeting shall decide

that such unincorporated church shall become an incorporated church or

congregation of the Apostolic Episcopal Church, a certificate of

incorporation therefor shall be executed and acknowledged by the bishop

who is the ecclesiastical administrator, the vicar-general and the

chancellor of Metropolitan Synod Apostolic Episcopal Church, 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.