2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 3-B - (50-AA - 50-MM) PARISHES OR CHURCHES OF THE HOLY ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
50-DD - Resolution to be adopted at incorporation meeting.

 
    §  50-dd.  Resolution  to be adopted at incorporation meeting. At such
  meeting  held  for  the  incorporation  of  such   parish,   church   or
  congregation  as  of  the  Holy  Orthodox Church in America, by whatever
  corporate name said church shall take, the following resolution shall be
  passed by a majority of the qualified voters of such meeting, to wit:
    "Resolved, that whereas, it has been decided by  a  majority  vote  to
  incorporate  said church under the name of (here give the corporate name
  by which such church is to be known)  as  a  congregation  of  the  Holy
  Orthodox  Church  in  America  and  under  the spiritual jurisdiction of
  Metropolitan Synod of such denomination; we likewise, by a majority vote
  of the duly qualified voters at this meeting, held for the incorporation
  of said church, now decide that the  clergymen  trustees  of  this  said
  church  shall be the archbishop who is the ecclesiastical administrator,
  the vicar-general and the chancellor of the aforesaid metropolitan synod
  and the rector or vicar of this church, and their successors in  office,
  shall  by  virtue  of  their  offices, be the clergymen trustees of this
  church, which said four  officers  together  with  the  ................
  laymen  trustees elected at this incorporation meeting, shall constitute
  the trustees thereof. Said clergymen  trustees'  term  of  office  shall
  continue  until  their  successors  in  said  office  are elected by the
  Metropolitan Synod Holy Orthodox Church  in  America,  and  said  laymen
  trustees term of office shall be that fixed by statute. "