2006 New York Code - Certificate Of Incorporation.



 
    §  426.  Certificate  of  incorporation.  1.  If  at  the  meeting for
  incorporation it shall be decided that such unincorporated church  shall
  become  incorporated,  the presiding officer of such meeting and the two
  inspectors of election shall execute and acknowledge  a  certificate  of
  incorporation,  in which shall be stated the name or title by which such
  body shall be known in the law; the purpose  of  its  organization;  the
  names  and  addresses  of  the trustees elected thereat and the terms of
  office for which they were respectively elected;  the  county,  town  or
  city  in  which  its  principal place of worship is or is intended to be
  located; and a statement that the corporation shall support the doctrine
  and be subject to the constitution and by-laws of and be  in  conformity
  with  the principles of the general council of the Assemblies of God and
  the New York district of the Assemblies of God  as  from  time  to  time
  established,  made  and declared by the lawful authority of said general
  council of the Assemblies of God and New York district of the Assemblies
  of God.
    2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the
  county in which such corporate body is or is  intended  to  be  located,
  such church shall be a corporation by the name stated in the certificate
  of  incorporation; but such certificate shall not be filed, unless there
  is affixed thereto the written permission of the New  York  district  of
  the  Assemblies  of God to incorporate, pursuant to section four hundred
  twenty-two of this article.
    3. The certificate of incorporation shall further contain a  provision
  that,  in the event of dissolution of the corporation, all the remaining
  assets and property of the corporation shall, after  necessary  expenses
  thereof,  be  distributed  to  either  the  New  York  district  of  the
  Assemblies of God, or to the general council of the Assemblies  of  God,
  their  successors  and  assigns,  and  that  in  the event said New York
  district of the Assemblies of God or general council of  the  Assemblies
  of  God  or  if  their  successor  is  not  in  existence at the time of
  dissolution, then such assets  are  to  be  distributed  to  such  other
  Assemblies  of  God organizations as shall qualify under section 501 (c)
  (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, to be used in such
  manner as in the judgment of a justice of the supreme court  shall  best
  accomplish the general purposes for which the corporation was formed.

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