2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 3-C - (51-A - 54-A) PARISHES OR CHURCHES OF THE AMERICAN PATRIARCHAL ORTHODOX CHURCH
53-A - Provisions governing meetings for incorporation.

 
    §  53-a.  Provisions  governing  meetings for incorporation. 1. If the
  meeting shall decide that such unincorporated  church  shall  become  an
  incorporated church or congregation of the American Patriarchal Orthodox
  Church,  a  certificate  of incorporation therefor shall be executed and
  acknowledged by the archbishop who is the ecclesiastical  administrator,
  the vicar-general and the chancellor of Patriarchal Synod, the rector or
  vicar of the church or congregation and by the laymen trustees that have
  been  elected,  and  by  the  clerk  of  the  corporation,  and the said
  certificate of incorporation shall contain the following:
    (a) The name of the proposed corporation;
    (b) The number of laymen trustees thereof, the names  of  the  persons
  elected  as  laymen  trustees,  the  terms of office for which they were
  respectively elected as laymen trustees;
    (c) An exact copy of the resolution which provides  for  the  clerical
  trustees by virtue of their offices;
    (d)  The county and town, city or village in which the principal place
  of worship is or is intended to be located.
    2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the
  county in which such church is or is intended to be located, such church
  shall be a corporation by the name stated in the  certificate,  and  the
  persons  therein  stated  to  be elected clerical and laymen trustees of
  such church shall be the trustees therefor for  their  respective  terms
  and until their successors are elected.