2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 11 - (220 - 221) UNION CHURCHES
221 - Government of incorporated union churches.

 
    §  221. Government of incorporated union churches. Any union church or
  society having a common place of worship or holding  property  belonging
  jointly  to the several societies composing the same, but the sole right
  of occupancy of which is reserved to each of them in proportion to their
  interest in such property, or the  money  originally  paid  therefor  by
  each,  or  in accordance with their plan of union agreed on, may, if any
  one or more of the churches or societies comprising such union church or
  society has ceased to exist, on the request of such  remaining  churches
  or  society,  redistribute  and  divide the time of occupancy among such
  remaining  societies  in  proportion  to  their  contributions  to  such
  property  respectively, or in accordance with a new plan of union agreed
  on by them. Such redistribution shall be made by the  trustees  of  said
  union  church  or society on written notice to the societies which it is
  alleged have ceased to exist; but no such society  shall  be  deemed  to
  have  ceased  to exist unless it has failed or neglected for a period of
  five consecutive years next preceding such request  for  redistribution,
  to  hold  meetings  and  have  a  clerk or secretary, and keep a list or
  registry of its members, or to  have  preaching,  prayer  or  conference
  meetings,  or other religious services in keeping with the usages of the
  denomination to which it belongs.
    Any one of the societies composing a union church  or  society,  which
  shall have built a church edifice in the same village or neighborhood in
  which it holds its religious services, shall not thereby lose or forfeit
  in  any  way  any of its rights or privileges in such union society, and
  the maintaining of divine worship, or contributing to its support in its
  own building, shall be regarded the same as if it held its  meetings  in
  the  church  building of such union society. Any notice for the election
  of trustees of the union society or for any other purpose which the  law
  requires  to be read or given at the time of divine service, may be read
  or given in the church edifice so built by any one of such societies, if
  at the time religious services are not held in  the  church  edifice  of
  such  union society. But such notice must be posted on the outer door of
  such union church edifice at least fifteen days before the  meeting.  If
  any  society  composing  any  such church union or society has a greater
  interest in the occupancy of the church building than others, unless the
  several churches composing the  union  church  or  society  have  agreed
  otherwise,  the  number of trustees shall be odd, and the trustees shall
  be elected  from  such  societies  in  proportion  to  their  respective
  interests  in  the  union,  church  or society, as nearly as may be. Any
  society composing such union church or  society,  which  has  built  for
  itself  a  church edifice and become incorporated, may sell its interest
  and right of occupancy in such union society, and convey the same,  when
  authorized so to do by a two-thirds vote of the voters thereof qualified
  to  vote  for  union  trustees,  at  a  special  meeting called for that
  purpose. The proceeds of such sale shall be used for the benefit of  its
  church property.