2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 2 - (3 - 27) GENERAL PROVISIONS
6 - Acquisition of property by religious corporations for branch institutions; establishment, maintenance and management thereof.

 
    §  6.  Acquisition  of  property  by religious corporations for branch
  institutions; establishment, maintenance  and  management  thereof.  Any
  religious  corporation may acquire property for associate houses, church
  buildings,  chapels,  mission-houses,  school-houses   for   Sunday   or
  parochial  schools, or dispensaries of medicine for its ministers, their
  wives, husbands and dependent children and for the poor, or property for
  the residence of its ministers,  their  wives,  husbands  and  dependent
  children,  teachers or employees, or property for a home for the aged or
  nursery school or day care center. The persons attending public  worship
  in  any  such associate house, mission-house, church building, or chapel
  connected therewith shall not by  reason  thereof  have  any  rights  as
  members  of  the  parent corporation. The persons statedly worshiping in
  any such house, mission-house, church building or chapel may,  with  the
  consent   of   the  trustees  of  such  corporation,  become  separately
  incorporated as a church, and the parent corporation may,  in  pursuance
  of  the provisions of law regulating the disposition of real property by
  religious corporations, rent or convey to the new corporation,  with  or
  without  consideration,  any  such  associate  house,  church  building,
  chapel, mission-house, school-house or dispensary and the lot  connected
  therewith,  subject  to  such  regulations as the trustees of the parent
  corporation may make. Any religious  corporation  shall  have  power  to
  establish,  maintain  and  manage by its trustees or other officers as a
  part of its religious purpose a home for the aged or nursery  school  or
  day  care center, and may take and hold by conveyance, donation, bequest
  or devise real and personal property for such purpose, and may  purchase
  and may erect suitable buildings therefor. Any such corporation may take
  and  hold  any  grant,  donation,  bequest or devise of real or personal
  property heretofore or hereafter made upon trust, and apply the same, or
  the income thereof,  under  the  direction  of  its  trustees  or  other
  officers, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and managing such
  a  home,  school or center and for the erection, preservation, repair or
  extension of any building or buildings for such purpose.