2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 6 - (110 - 116) REFORMED DUTCH, REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN AND LUTHERAN CHURCHES
112 - Incorporation of Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Evangelical Lutheran churches under this article.

 
    §  112.  Incorporation  of  Reformed  Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and
  Evangelical Lutheran churches under this article. If any  unincorporated
  church  in  connection  with  the  Reformed  church in America, the true
  Reformed Dutch church in the United  States  of  America,  the  Reformed
  Presbyterian  church, or with the Evangelical Lutheran church, determine
  to incorporate in pursuance of this article, the minister  or  ministers
  and  the elders and deacons thereof shall execute, acknowledge and cause
  to be filed and recorded, a certificate in pursuance  of  this  article.
  The  deacons  of  a  Reformed  Presbyterian  church  may alone sign such
  certificate if authorized so to do by such church. Such  certificate  of
  incorporation  shall  state  the  name  of the proposed corporation, the
  county and town, city or village where its principal place of worship is
  or is intended to be located, and, if  it  be  an  Evangelical  Lutheran
  church,  the fact that a meeting of such church duly called decided that
  it be incorporated under this article.  If it be signed by  the  deacons
  of  a  Reformed  Presbyterian  church,  it  shall  state  that they were
  authorized so to do by such church.  On  filing  such  certificate  such
  church  shall  be  a  corporation  by  the  name stated therein, and the
  minister or ministers, if any, and the elders and deacons of such church
  shall by virtue of their offices be the trustees  of  such  corporation,
  except  that if it be a Reformed Presbyterian church, the certificate of
  incorporation of which shall have been, in pursuance of law,  signed  by
  its  deacons  only, the deacons of such church shall, by virtue of their
  offices, be the trustees of such corporation.