2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 15 - (290 - 296)
294 - Certificate of incorporation.

 
    §   294.   Certificate   of  incorporation.     1.  A  certificate  of
  incorporation for a church, society, or committee, to which this article
  is applicable shall be executed and acknowledged  by  the  trustees  who
  sign the resolution for incorporation.
    The said certificate of incorporation shall contain the following:
    (a) the name by which the proposed corporation shall be known.
    (b)  the  number  of  trustees thereof; the names and addresses of the
  persons elected as trustees; and the term of office for which they  were
  respectively elected.
    (c)  the  name of county, town, city or village in which the principal
  place of worship or office is or is intended to be located.
    (d) the purpose and intent for which said corporation is  created,  to
  be set forth as follows:
    "The purpose and intent of this corporation is to maintain, propagate,
  practice  and forever perpetuate religious worship, services, sacraments
  and teaching in full accordance and unity  with  the  doctrine,  ritual,
  canon law, faith, practice, discipline, and traditions and usages of the
  Orthodox  Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church; and for the carrying
  out of said purpose  and  intent,  to  form  and  maintain  a  religious
  organization   or   church   adherent   and  obedient  to  the  Orthodox
  ecclesiastical jurisdiction and authority, and to the Orthodox hierarch,
  bishop  or  administrator,  selected  by  the   members   applying   for
  incorporation,  and  certified  by  the  Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary
  Jurisdictions in America, through the secretariat thereof, as  canonical
  and  appropriate  for  the  Orthodox communicant members comprising this
  corporation."
    (e) In the certificate of incorporation of societies or organizations,
  other than parishes, special purposes, additional to the above,  may  be
  set forth.
    2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the
  county in which the place of worship or office of such corporation is or
  is  intended to be located, such church, society or committee shall be a
  corporation by the name  stated  in  the  certificate  and  the  persons
  therein  declared  to  be trustees of such corporation shall be trustees
  until their successors are elected.