2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 15 - (290 - 296)
296 - Re-incorporation of existing corporations.

 
    §  296.  Re-incorporation  of  existing  corporations.  Any heretofore
  incorporated church, congregation, parish,  society,  or  committee,  to
  which   this   article  is  applicable,  may  re-incorporate  under  the
  provisions of this article by the same procedure hereinbefore set  forth
  for   incorporation   substituting,  at  appropriate  places,  the  word
  "re-incorporate"  for  "incorporate"  and  filing  the  certificate   of
  re-incorporation  in  the  office  of  the county clerk in the county in
  which its principal place of worship or office is  located.  Immediately
  upon  the  filing  of  such certificate all the right, title, equity and
  interest of such organization or corporation  in  any  estate,  real  or
  personal,  together  with  all  franchise  and  charter rights, shall be
  vested in the  corporation  so  created  under  this  article,  and  the
  original corporation shall be null and void.