2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 3-A - (50 - 59-B) APOSTOLIC EPISCOPAL PARISHES OR CHURCHES
50 - Application for incorporation.

 
    §  50.  Application  for  incorporation.  An  unincorporated Apostolic
  Episcopal Church, or a congregation acknowledging the historic apostolic
  eastern confession and order in this state, may apply to the bishop  who
  is  the  ecclesiastical  administrator  of  Metropolitan Synod Apostolic
  Episcopal Church for permission and sanction to incorporate such church.
  When such permission aforesaid has been obtained  in  writing  over  the
  signature   and   seal  of  such  bishop,  such  church  may  become  an
  incorporated church by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate
  of incorporation as hereinafter provided.
    Any  religious  order,  biblical  seminary  for  the  preparation   of
  candidates  for  the ministry, leading to ordination and the granting of
  credentials of ecclesiastical degrees of orders in sacred  theology,  or
  religious  society  established for evangelical efforts or the relief of
  the poor and needy, which is intended to be an auxiliary organization of
  the Apostolic Episcopal Church,  where  a  chapel  for  the  conduct  of
  worship  is  provided, shall be deemed a congregation to all intents and
  purposes, and may be incorporated  in  the  manner  prescribed  in  this
  article as a congregation of the Apostolic Episcopal Church.