2006 New York Code - Certificate Of Incorporation.

 
    §  323.  Certificate of incorporation. The presiding officer of such a
  meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat  shall
  be  appointed  at  such a meeting to execute and acknowledge, before any
  person authorized to take acknowledgment  of  deeds,  a  certificate  of
  incorporation  which  shall  have been submitted to and approved by such
  meeting. Such certificate shall set forth: the place and  date  of  said
  meeting  for  incorporation;  the  name  of  said  church; the township,
  village or city, and the county in which said church shall  be  located;
  the  statement  that  there were six or more qualified voters present at
  the meeting where this act of incorporation was  authorized;  the  names
  and respective periods of office of the trustees elected; the signatures
  and  residences  of  those  authorized  to  execute  and acknowledge the
  certificate   of   incorporation;   the   approval   of   the   district
  superintendent  of  the  district  in which the church is located; and a
  statement that the corporation shall support the doctrine and  shall  be
  subject  to  the laws, usages and ministerial appointments of The United
  Methodist Church as from time to time established, made and declared  by
  the  lawful  authority of said church. On the filing of such certificate
  in the office of the county clerk of the county  in  which  such  church
  shall  be  located  the members of such church qualified to vote at such
  meeting and those who shall thereafter, from time to time, be  qualified
  voters, at the corporate meetings thereof, shall be a corporation by the
  name  stated  in  such certificate, and the persons therein stated to be
  elected trustees of such church shall be the trustees thereof,  for  the
  terms  for  which  they  were  respectively  elected,  and  until  their
  successors are elected.