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

 
    §  351.  Conveyance  of  property. Whenever it may become necessary or
  advisable to mortgage or dispose of any church  property,  the  trustees
  may mortgage or sell and convey the same by first securing the authority
  of  the  society  for  such  sale  or  mortgage  and the approval of the
  archbishop,  or  bishop,  who  is  administrator  of  the   Byelorussian
  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church  in  America,  and obtaining leave of the
  supreme or county court therefor pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this
  chapter;  provided  that  in  all  cases  the  proceeds  of such sale or
  mortgage shall be used either for  the  payment  of  debts  or  for  the
  purchase  or improvement of property for the same uses and deeded to the
  same corporation; or if not so used, shall be held subject to the  order
  of the diocesan council of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church
  in America which has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over such church.