2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 10 - (190 - 211) OTHER DENOMINATIONS
190 - Application of this article.

 
    § 190. Application of this article.  This article is not applicable to
  a  Baptist  church,  a Congregational Christian church, whether or not a
  part of the United Church of Christ, a church of the  United  Church  of
  Christ incorporated after September first, nineteen hundred seventy-one,
  an Independent church, a United Methodist church, a Protestant Episcopal
  church,  a  Roman  Catholic  church, a Presbyterian church in connection
  with the General Assembly of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United
  States  of  America, a Christian Orthodox Catholic church of the Eastern
  Confession, a Ruthenian Greek Catholic church, or a  Church  of  Christ,
  Scientist.  No  provision  of  this  article is applicable to a reformed
  church in America, a True Reformed Dutch church in the United States  of
  America,  a  Reformed Presbyterian church, or to an Evangelical Lutheran
  church,  incorporated  after  October  first,   eighteen   hundred   and
  ninety-five,  except  as  declared to be so applicable by article six of
  this chapter; this article is  applicable  to  an  Evangelical  Lutheran
  church  incorporated before October first, eighteen hundred ninety-five,
  if the trustees thereof were then elective as such and so long  as  they
  continue  to  be  elective  as  such.  Article  six  of  this chapter is
  applicable to an Evangelical Lutheran church incorporated before October
  first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, if its trustees were  not  then
  elective as such and so long as its trustees continue not to be elective
  as   such.   This  article  is  applicable  to  churches  of  all  other
  denominations.