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

 
    §  341.  Certificate  of incorporation. 1. If the meeting shall decide
  that such congregation  shall  become  an  incorporated  church  of  the
  Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox Church in America, a certificate of
  incorporation  therefor  shall  be  executed  and  acknowledged  by  the
  archbishop,   or  bishop,  who  is  administrator  of  the  Byelorussian
  Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America, the rector of the  congregation
  and  by  the laymen trustees that have been elected, and by the clerk of
  the corporation, and the said certificate of incorporation shall contain
  the following:
    (a) The name by which the proposed corporation shall be known;
    (b) The number of laymen trustees thereof; the names and addresses  of
  the  persons  elected as trustees; and the term of office for which they
  were respectively elected;
    (c) An exact copy of the resolution which provides  for  the  clerical
  trustees by virtue of their offices;
    (d)  The  name of county, town, city or village in which the principal
  place of worship or office is or is intended to be located;
    (e) The purpose and intent for which said corporation is  created,  to
  be set forth as follows:
    "The purpose and intent of this corporation is to maintain, propagate,
  practice  and forever perpetuate religious worship, services, sacraments
  and teaching in full accordance and unity  with  the  doctrine,  ritual,
  canon law, faith, practice, discipline, and traditions and usages of the
  Holy  Orthodox  Church; and for carrying out of said purpose and intent,
  to form and maintain a religious organization  of  church  adherent  and
  obedient  to  the  ecclesiastical  jurisdiction  and  authority  of  the
  archbishop, or bishop, or administrator of the Byelorussian Autocephalic
  Orthodox Church in America and certified by the governing ecclesiastical
  body of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church, as canonical  and
  duly appointed."
    (f) In the certificate of incorporation of societies or organizations,
  other  than  churches, special purposes, additional to the above, may be
  set forth.
    2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the
  county in which such church is or is intended to be located, such church
  shall be a corporation by the name stated in the  certificate,  and  the
  persons  therein  stated  to  be elected clerical and laymen trustees of
  such church shall be trustees therefor for their  respective  terms  and
  until their successors are elected.