2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 16 - (300 - 306) SPIRITUALIST CHURCHES CONNECTED WITH THE NATIONAL SPIRITUALIST ASSOCIATION
304 - Certificate of incorporation.

 
    §  304. Certificate of incorporation. The certificate of incorporation
  shall contain:
    1. The name by which the proposed corporation shall be known.
    2. The names and addresses of the officers and trustees elected at the
  incorporation meeting,  together  with  the  respective  terms  of  said
  officers and trustees.
    3.  The  name of the county and the city, town or village in which the
  proposed place of worship is or is intended to be located.
    4. The purpose and intent for which the corporation is created  to  be
  set forth as follows:
    "The  purpose  and  intent of this religious corporation is to promote
  the science and promulgate the philosophy and religion of  Spiritualism,
  as adopted and practiced by the National Spiritualist Association.
    This  corporation  is  subject  to the constitution and by-laws of the
  National Spiritualist Association, a religious body  incorporated  under
  the laws of the District of Columbia, to the extent that they may not be
  inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of this state."
    The certificate shall be executed and acknowledged by the duly elected
  officers  and  trustees  and,  together  with  the written permission to
  incorporate  granted  by  the  board  of  trustees   of   the   National
  Spiritualist  Association,  shall  be  filed in the office of the county
  clerk of the county in which the place of worship is or is  intended  to
  be  located.  On  such  filing the church shall be a corporation and the
  persons so elected to be officers and trustees shall  be  such  officers
  and trustees.