2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 13 - (262 - 272) Spiritualist Churches.
265 - The certificate of incorporation.

 
    §  265.  The certificate of incorporation. If the meeting shall decide
  that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding
  officer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall execute
  a certificate setting forth the name of the  proposed  corporation,  the
  number  of  trustees  thereof,  the  names  of  the  persons  elected as
  trustees, the terms of office for which they were respectively  elected,
  and  the county or town, city or village in which its principal place of
  worship is, or is intended to be located. The name  of  such  church  as
  adopted shall bear the words "in connection with the General Assembly of
  Spiritualists."  On  the filing and recording of such certificate, after
  it shall have been acknowledged or proved as hereinbefore provided,  the
  persons  qualified  to  vote at such meeting and those persons 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 elected and until their respective successors shall be
  elected.