2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 15 - (290 - 296)
293 - Provisions governing meetings for incorporation and resolutions to be adopted thereat.

 
    § 293. Provisions governing meetings for incorporation and resolutions
  to  be  adopted  thereat.  1.  At the meeting for incorporation, held in
  pursuance of such notice, qualified  voters  shall  be  those  qualified
  under  the  by-laws of such unincorporated church, congregation, parish,
  society or committee, or in the absence of  such  by-laws,  the  persons
  qualified  to  vote  in parish meetings in accordance with the rules and
  regulations or general usages of that jurisdiction of the Orthodox Greek
  Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church to which the proposed corporation  is
  to adhere.
    2. The meeting shall be called to order by the priest in charge of the
  parish,  congregation,  society, or committee or, in his absence, by one
  of the signers of the notice and shall elect  the  customarily  required
  officers  to  conduct  the  meeting.  In order to incorporate under this
  article the meeting shall adopt the following resolution by  a  majority
  of its qualified voters, present and voting, to wit:
    WHEREAS, this (congregation, parish, church, society or committee) was
  founded  and established, and thereby a permanent trust was created, for
  the purpose  and  intent  of  adhering  to,  maintaining  and  promoting
  religious  worship  and  teaching  according to the communion, doctrine,
  discipline, rite, canon law, traditions and usages of the Orthodox Greek
  Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church; and
    WHEREAS, such purpose and intent and the trust thereby created can  be
  fully  effected  and  safeguarded  only in complete canonical unity with
  Orthodox jurisdictions and  in  obedience  to  Orthodox  Greek  Catholic
  bishops  acknowledged  and  certified  by  the  Federated Orthodox Greek
  Catholic Primary Jurisdictions in America; and
    WHEREAS, the signers hereof are the trustees, duly elected as such  at
  a  meeting  duly  held  on  the ............. day of ........ , nineteen
  hundred ..... , in accordance with  article  fifteen  of  the  religious
  corporations law; and
    WHEREAS,  by  a  majority  vote  the  said  meeting  has determined to
  incorporate under said article as a (parish, society  or  committee)  of
  the  Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church under the name of
  ............................. (here give the  corporate  name  by  which
  such church, society or committee is to be known); and
    WHEREAS, permission and sanction for such incorporation has been given
  and  certified  in  accordance  with  the  provisions of said article by
  .............................  (here  name  the  appropriate   hierarch,
  bishop  or  administrator)  to  whose  jurisdiction  and  authority this
  corporation shall adhere,
    Therefore it is hereby
    RESOLVED,  that  this  (congregation,  parish,  church,   society   or
  committee)  shall  become and remain an incorporated (parish, society or
  committee) of the aforesaid jurisdiction in  full  unity  of  communion,
  faith  and discipline with the Federated Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary
  Jurisdictions in America.