2006 New York Code - Consolidation.

 
    § 7-a. Consolidation.  Any two or more of the bodies enumerated in the
  preceding section, having the  same  parent  governing  body,  organized
  under  section two of this chapter may consolidate by taking such action
  at any regular communication, convocation, encampment or  other  regular
  meeting  thereof,  by  whatever  name known, held in accordance with the
  constitution and general rules and regulations of the governing body  to
  which it is subordinate, and in conformity to its own by-laws, and shall
  thereupon proceed to effect such organization in the manner provided for
  in  section  two, as if neither body had heretofore been organized under
  its provisions. When the certificate required to be filed by  such  body
  in  the  office  of  the secretary of state under the provisions of this
  article shall be so filed such separate bodies  shall  thereupon  become
  one  body,  and  all  the  temporalities,  and property, whether real or
  personal,  now  vested  in  the  trustees  of  each  of  the  bodies  so
  consolidated, in accordance with the provisions of section three of this
  chapter  shall  be  vested  in  the  trustees  of the body formed by the
  consolidation, which shall be subject to  all  the  liabilities  of  the
  former  bodies  to  the  same  extent  as  if  such liabilities had been
  contracted or incurred by it.