2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 15 - (290 - 296)
292 - Notice of meeting for incorporation.

 
    §  292.  Notice  of meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for
  the purpose of incorporating  an  unincorporated  parish,  congregation,
  church,  society  or committee to which this article is applicable shall
  be given as follows:
    1. The notice shall be in writing and shall state in substance that  a
  meeting  of the members of such church, congregation, parish, society or
  committee will be held at a stated place, date and hour for the  purpose
  of incorporating, electing trustees and selecting a corporate name.
    2.  The  notice  shall  also state that the appropriate ecclesiastical
  authority  has  given  sanction  and  permission,  required  under  this
  article, for the incorporation.
    3. The notice must be signed by at least six persons of legal age who,
  either  from the time of the formation of said church or for a period of
  at least one year have been communicants in  canonical  standing  within
  the  Eastern  Orthodox communion and are resident members of the parish,
  church, society or committee which proposes to incorporate.
    4. Such notice shall be publicly read, by the minister  in  charge  of
  such church or by one of the members signing the same, at two successive
  regular  meetings  for  public  worship  or  at special meetings of said
  parish or society on the two Sundays immediately preceding  the  meeting
  for  incorporation;  and  at  least  fifteen days before the meeting for
  incorporation, a copy of such notice shall be posted  at  the  place  of
  worship or at the place where such special meetings are to be held.