2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 18 - (336 - 352) CHURCHES OF THE BYELORUSSIAN AUTOCEPHALIC ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
340 - Resolutions to be adopted at the meeting for incorporation.

 
    §  340. Resolutions to be adopted at the meeting for incorporation. In
  order to incorporate under this article, the  meeting  shall  adopt  the
  following  resolution by a majority of its qualified voters, present and
  voting, to wit:
    Whereas, this congregation was founded and established, and thereby  a
  permanent  trust was created, for the purpose and intent of adhering to,
  maintaining and promoting religious worship and  teaching  according  to
  the  communion,  doctrine,  discipline,  rite, canon law, traditions and
  usages of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church; and
    Whereas, such purpose and intent and the trust thereby created can  be
  fully  effected  and  safeguarded  only in complete canonical unity with
  jurisdictions and in obedience to bishops acknowledged and certified  by
  the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America; and
    Whereas, the signors thereof are the trustees, duly elected as such at
  a  meeting  duly  held  on the ............ day of .......... , nineteen
  hundred  ..........  ,  in  accordance  with  article  eighteen  of  the
  religious corporations law; and
    Whereas,  by  a  majority  vote  the  said  meeting  has determined to
  incorporate as a Church of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church
  in America under the name of (here give the corporate name by which such
  church is to be known); and
    Whereas, permission and sanction for such incorporation has been given
  and certified in accordance with the provisions of said article by (here
  name the appropriate  archbishop,  bishop  or  administrator)  to  whose
  jurisdiction and authority this corporation shall adhere.
    Therefore  it  is hereby resolved, that this congregation shall become
  and remain an incorporated church of the aforesaid jurisdiction in  full
  unity   of   communion,  faith  and  discipline  with  the  Byelorussian
  Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America and that the clergymen  trustees
  of  this  said  church  shall  be  the archbishop, or bishop, who is the
  administrator  of  the  Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church  in
  America and rector of this church, and their successors in office, shall
  by  virtue  of  their offices, be the clergymen trustees of this church,
  which said two officers together, with the  ..........  laymen  trustees
  elected  at  this  incorporation  meeting, shall constitute the trustees
  thereof. Said clergymen trustees' term of office  shall  continue  until
  their   successors   in   said  office  are  elected  by  the  governing
  ecclesiastical body of the Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church,
  and said laymen trustees' term of office shall be that fixed by statute.