2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 9-A - (184 - 189-C) Churches of Christ, Scientist
187 - Certificate of incorporation.

 
    §  187. Certificate of incorporation. If the meeting shall decide that
  such unincorporated church or society  shall  become  incorporated,  the
  presiding  officer  of  such meeting and the two inspectors of election,
  shall execute and acknowledge a certificate  of  incorporation,  setting
  forth  the  name  of  the  proposed  corporation, the number of trustees
  thereof, the names of the persons elected  as  trustees,  the  terms  of
  office for which they were respectively elected and the county and town,
  city  or  village  in  which  its  principal  place of worship is, or is
  intended to be located. On the filing and recording of such certificate,
  as hereinbefore provided in this chapter, the persons qualified to  vote
  at  such  meeting  and  those persons who shall thereafter, from time to
  time be qualified voters at the corporate meetings thereof, shall  be  a
  corporation  by  the  name  stated  in such certificate, and the persons
  therein stated to be elected trustees of such church or society shall be
  the trustees thereof for the terms for which they were  respectively  so
  elected,  or until their respective successors shall be elected and take
  office.