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

 
    §  337.  Application  for incorporation. Any number of persons of full
  age, not less than ten,  who  are  communicants  in  canonical  standing
  within  the  Eastern  Orthodox  Church  may associate themselves for the
  purpose  of  founding  and  continuing  a  congregation   acknowledging,
  conforming  to  and  promoting  the  faith,  doctrine, discipline, rite,
  canons,  traditions,  usages  and  constitution  of   the   Byelorussian
  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church in America and apply to the archbishop or
  bishop, who is the ecclesiastical  administrator  of  said  church,  for
  permission  and  sanction  to  incorporate  such congregation. When such
  permission aforesaid has been obtained in writing over the signature and
  seal of such archbishop or  bishop,  such  congregation  may  become  an
  incorporated church by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate
  of incorporation as hereinafter provided.
    Any  religious  order,  theological  seminary  for  the preparation of
  candidates  for  ministry,  or   religious   society   established   for
  evangelical  efforts  or  the  relief  of  the  poor and needy, which is
  intended  to  be  an  auxiliary   organization   of   the   Byelorussian
  Autocephalic  Orthodox Church in America, where a chapel for the conduct
  of worship is provided shall be deemed a congregation to all intents and
  purposes, and may be incorporated  in  the  manner  prescribed  in  this
  article.