2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 15 - (290 - 296)
290 - Application of article.

 
    §  290.  Application  of  article.  1.  This  article  applies  to all
  churches, congregations, societies, parishes, committees and other local
  organizations governed by jurisdictions, bishoprics, dioceses,  missions
  of  any  Orthodox Patriarchate, Synod or national church of the Orthodox
  Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church, recognized  by  the  apostolic
  historic  Orthodox  Patriarchates of Constantinople, Antioch, Moscow and
  Serbia (Jugoslavia), respectively, through their four  primary  Orthodox
  Greek  Catholic  jurisdictions  in  America as specified in subdivisions
  three and four of section fifteen of this chapter; also to any churches,
  parishes,  congregations,  societies  or  committees  of  the  Christian
  Orthodox  Catholic Churches of the Eastern Confession which are included
  under article five-a of said chapter and in  general  to  all  churches,
  parishes,  congregations,  committees or religious organizations founded
  or established with the intent and for the purpose of  adhering  to  and
  maintaining  the apostolic and historic communion, doctrine, discipline,
  canon law, tradition, worship and unity of the Eastern Confession  known
  as the Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church.
    2.  This  article  does not apply to the following churches, which are
  autogenic, to  wit:  American  Catholic  Church,  Old  Catholic  Church,
  Western Orthodox Church, Orthodox Old Catholic Church, American Catholic
  Orthodox  Church,  Apostolic  Episcopal  Church, Holy Orthodox Church in
  America, American Patriarchal Orthodox Church, African  Orthodox  Church
  or  any other organization, church, society or establishment by whatever
  name,  title  or  description  designated,  whose   names,   titles   or
  descriptions allude, relate or refer to the said Orthodox Greek Catholic
  (Eastern  Orthodox)  Church  but which are not recognized or accepted by
  said apostolic and historic Orthodox Greek Catholic Patriarchates.