2006 New York Code - Laws: Religious Corporations : (3 - 27) General Provisions

Article 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
3 - Filing and recording certificates of incorporation of religious corporations.
4 - Property of unincorporated society transferred by its incorporation.
4-A - Age qualifications of voters.
5 - General powers and duties of trustees of religious corporations.
5-A - Investment of funds.
5-B - (Enacted without section heading).
6 - Acquisition of property by religious corporations for branch institutions; establishment, maintenance and management thereof.
7 - Acquisition of property by religious corporations for cemetery purposes; management thereof.
7-A - Deeds for cemetery purposes; presumption.
8 - Lot owners' rights.
9 - Removal of human remains from one cemetery of a religious corporation to another cemetery owned by it.
10 - Acquisition of property by two or more religious corporations for a common parsonage.
11 - Correction and confirmation of conveyances to religious corporations.
12 - Sale, mortgage and lease of real property of religious corporations.
13 - Consolidation of incorporated churches.
14 - Judicial investigation of amount of property of religious corporations.
15 - Corporations with governing authority over, or advisory relations with, churches or synods, or both.
15-A - Consolidation of incorporated presbyteries.
15-B - Consolidation or merger of incorporated Presbyterian and Lutheran synods.
16 - Property of extinct churches.
17 - Property of extinct Free Baptist churches.
17-A - Property of extinct Seventh Day Baptist churches and Seventh Day Baptist religious societies.
17-B - Property of extinct Presbyterian churches in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
17-C - Property of Lutheran congregations.
18 - Dissolution of religious corporations.
19 - Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and Sunday schools.
20 - Corporations for acquiring parsonages for district superintendents and camp-meeting grounds.
21 - Corporations for acquiring camp-meeting grounds for the Reformed Methodist denomination.
21-A - Corporations for acquiring lands for parsonage or camp-meeting purposes for the Free Methodist denomination.
22 - Establishing and maintaining a home for aged poor.
23 - Powers of churches created by special laws.
24 - Government of churches incorporated prior to January first, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.
25 - Pastoral relation.
26 - Worship.
27 - Reservation as to Baptist churches, churches of the United Church of Christ and Congregational Christian churches.

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