2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 11-A - (225 - 225-O) FREE METHODIST CHURCHES.
225-A - Organization of a free Methodist church.

 
    §  225-a.  Organization of a free Methodist church. It shall be lawful
  for any number of persons, not less than six, with the  consent  of  the
  district  superintendent of the district in which the proposed church is
  to be located, to organize a free Methodist church and  to  procure  its
  incorporation.  Said  church, when so organized, shall be subject in all
  matters  of  church  government  and  ecclesiastical   polity   to   the
  discipline,  rules,  usages  and  ministerial  appointments  of the Free
  Methodist Church of North America, as from time to time  authorized  and
  declared  by  the  general  conference  of  said  church  and the annual
  conference within the bounds of which such church may be situated.