2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 5-C - (105 - 108) CHURCHES OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
106 - Incorporation of churches of Orthodox Church in America.

 
    §  106.  Incorporation  of churches of Orthodox Church in America.  An
  unincorporated  American  Orthodox  church  in   this   state   may   be
  incorporated  by  executing,  acknowledging  and filing a certificate of
  incorporation, stating the corporate name by which such church shall  be
  known and the county, town, city or village where its principal place of
  worship is or is intended to be located. There shall be attached to such
  certificate  the  permission  to  incorporate signed by the metropolitan
  archbishop or other primate  or  hierarch  of  the  Orthodox  Church  in
  America,  or  by the locum tenens acting in his place.  Such certificate
  of incorporation shall be executed and acknowledged by six  lay  members
  of such church.
    On  filing  such certificate such church shall be a corporation by the
  name stated in the certificate.