N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 6: Acquisition of property by religious corporations for branch institutions; establishment, maintenance and management thereof

§ 6. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for branch

institutions; establishment, maintenance and management thereof. Any

religious corporation may acquire property for associate houses, church

buildings, chapels, mission-houses, school-houses for Sunday or

parochial schools, or dispensaries of medicine for its ministers, their

wives, husbands and dependent children and for the poor, or property for

the residence of its ministers, their wives, husbands and dependent

children, teachers or employees, or property for a home for the aged or

nursery school or day care center. The persons attending public worship

in any such associate house, mission-house, church building, or chapel

connected therewith shall not by reason thereof have any rights as

members of the parent corporation. The persons statedly worshiping in

any such house, mission-house, church building or chapel may, with the

consent of the trustees of such corporation, become separately

incorporated as a church, and the parent corporation may, in pursuance

of the provisions of law regulating the disposition of real property by

religious corporations, rent or convey to the new corporation, with or

without consideration, any such associate house, church building,

chapel, mission-house, school-house or dispensary and the lot connected

therewith, subject to such regulations as the trustees of the parent

corporation may make. Any religious corporation shall have power to

establish, maintain and manage by its trustees or other officers as a

part of its religious purpose a home for the aged or nursery school or

day care center, and may take and hold by conveyance, donation, bequest

or devise real and personal property for such purpose, and may purchase

and may erect suitable buildings therefor. Any such corporation may take

and hold any grant, donation, bequest or devise of real or personal

property heretofore or hereafter made upon trust, and apply the same, or

the income thereof, under the direction of its trustees or other

officers, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and managing such

a home, school or center and for the erection, preservation, repair or

extension of any building or buildings for such purpose.