2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 18 - (336 - 352) CHURCHES OF THE BYELORUSSIAN AUTOCEPHALIC ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
336 - Definitions.

 
    §  336. Definitions. 1. The "Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church
  in America," as that term is used anywhere in this  article,  refers  to
  the  churches,  cathedrals, chapels, congregations, societies, parishes,
  committees and other religious organizations  of  the  Eastern  Orthodox
  Church   which   are   subject   to  ecclesiastical  and  administrative
  jurisdiction and authority of the archbishop,  or  bishop,  who  is  the
  ecclesiastical administrator of the American diocese of the Byelorussian
  Autocephalic  Orthodox Church created pursuant to resolutions adopted at
  a diocesan convention (sobor) of said  diocese  held  at  Brooklyn,  New
  York,  on May twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred sixty and
  subject  to  the  ecclesiastical  jurisdiction   of   the   metropolitan
  archbishop,  or  other  primate, or the locum tenens acting in his place
  and the council of bishops of  the  Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox
  Church.
    2.   Every   church,   parish,  congregation,  society,  or  committee
  incorporated or reincorporated, pursuant to this article, shall  in  all
  respects  conform  to, maintain, and follow the faith, doctrine, ritual,
  communion, discipline, canon law, traditions and usages of  the  Eastern
  Orthodox  Church  as such are determined by the governing ecclesiastical
  body  of  the  Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church,  and  shall
  recognize and be and remain subject to the jurisdiction and authority of
  the  duly  appointed  archbishop,  bishop  or other administrator of the
  American Diocese  of  the  Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church,
  hereinafter called Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America,
  or  his  successor  in  office,  and shall accept, secure or receive the
  sacramental, pastoral, or ministerial services of such  clergy  only  as
  are  so  certified  to be of lawful and canonical status or authority in
  the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America, and retain  or
  secure  as pastors only such clergy as have, in addition, the permission
  of the said archbishop, bishop, or  administrator  of  the  Byelorussian
  Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America.