2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 11 - (220 - 221) UNION CHURCHES
220 - Joint meeting for the purposes of incorporation.

 
    §  220.  Joint  meeting for the purposes of incorporation. Two or more
  unincorporated churches, which separately agree on a plan of  union  and
  determine  to  meet  together for the purpose of being incorporated as a
  union church, may be incorporated as a union church in pursuance of  the
  provisions  of  article  ten,  and thereafter such union church shall be
  governed by the general provisions of such article, as near as  may  be,
  except  as  otherwise  provided  in this article. A notice of such joint
  meeting shall be given to the congregation of each church, in  pursuance
  of  the provisions of article ten of this chapter, relating to notice of
  meeting for incorporations, in every respect as if it were a notice of a
  meeting for  the  separate  incorporation  of  such  church  under  such
  article,  except  that  the notice shall state in substance that a joint
  meeting of such unincorporated churches, which shall be specified in the
  notice, will be held for the purpose of incorporating such churches as a
  union church,  and  electing  trustees  thereof  at  a  time  and  place
  specified  in  the notice, which place may be the usual place of worship
  of either of such churches or any  other  reasonably  convenient  place.
  Such  notice  must  be  signed by at least six persons from each of such
  churches who would be authorized to sign a notice  for  the  meeting  of
  each  church,  respectively,  for  the purpose of incorporating it under
  such article.
    The provisions of article  ten  hereof  shall  be  applicable  to  the
  organization  and  conduct of such meeting, the matters to be determined
  upon and the certificate of  incorporation  to  be  executed  and  filed
  accordingly,  except  that  the  presiding officer of such joint meeting
  shall be the oldest person present at such meeting who would be entitled
  to preside at a meeting of  either  of  such  churches  singly  for  the
  purposes  of incorporation in pursuance of such article. All persons who
  would be qualified to vote at such meeting of either  of  such  churches
  held  singly,  shall  be qualified voters at such joint meeting, and the
  number of trustees of  the  union  church  after  incorporation,  to  be
  selected  from each such church, may be agreed on by such unincorporated
  churches, and the trustees shall be selected by each  of  such  churches
  accordingly.
    The  certificate  of  incorporation  shall set forth the plan of union
  agreed on and the number of trustees of the incorporated union church to
  be selected by each unincorporated church.