2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 10 - (190 - 211) OTHER DENOMINATIONS
193 - The certificate of incorporation.

 
    §  193.  The  certificate of incorporation.   The presiding officer of
  such meeting and at least two other persons present and voting  thereat,
  shall  execute  and  acknowledge a certificate of incorporation, setting
  forth the matters so determined at such meeting,  the  trustees  elected
  thereat and the terms of office for which they were respectively elected
  and  the  county,  town, city or village in which its principal place of
  worship is or is intended to be located.  On filing such certificate the
  members of such church and the persons qualified to vote at such meeting
  and 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 so elected.