2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 2 - (3 - 27) GENERAL PROVISIONS
19 - Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and Sunday schools.

 
    § 19. Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and
  Sunday schools. Ten or more members of two or more incorporated churches
  may  become  a corporation for the purpose of organizing and maintaining
  mission churches and Sunday schools, and of acquiring property therefor,
  by executing a certificate stating the name  of  such  corporation,  the
  city in which its principal office or church or school is or is intended
  to be located; the number of trustees to manage its affairs, which shall
  be  three, six or nine, and the names of the trustees for the first year
  of its existence, which certificate shall be acknowledged or proved  and
  filed  as  hereinbefore provided.  Whenever a mission church established
  by such corporation becomes self-sustaining,  such  mission  church  may
  become  incorporated  and shall be governed under the provisions of this
  chapter for  the  incorporation  and  government  of  a  church  of  the
  religious denomination to which such mission church belongs, and thereon
  such  parent  corporation  may  convey  to  such incorporated church the
  property connected therewith.