2006 New York Code - Trusts For Shakers And Friends.

 
    §  202.  Trusts for Shakers and Friends.  All deeds or declarations of
  trust of real  or  personal  property,  executed  and  delivered  before
  January first, eighteen hundred and thirty, or since May fifth, eighteen
  hundred  and  thirty-nine, to any person in trust for any United Society
  of Shakers, or heretofore  executed  and  delivered  to  any  person  or
  persons in trust for any meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, or
  any of the purposes thereof, and the legal estates, interests and trusts
  purported  to  be conveyed, created or declared thereby, shall be valid.
  Trusts of real or personal property, for the  benefit  and  use  of  the
  members  of  any  United  Society  of  Shakers, or of any meeting of the
  Religious Society of Friends,  or  any  of  the  purposes  thereof,  may
  hereafter  be  created,  according to the religious constitution of such
  society of Shakers, or the regulations and rules of discipline  of  such
  Society  of Friends.  Such deeds or declarations of trust, heretofore or
  hereafter executed and delivered, shall vest in the trustees  the  legal
  estates  and  interests purported to be conveyed or declared thereby, to
  and for the uses and purposes declared therein; and such  legal  estates
  and  trusts,  and  all  legal authority with which the original trustees
  were vested by virtue of their appointment and conferred  powers,  shall
  descend  to  their  successors  in office or trust, who may be chosen in
  conformity to the constitution of such society,  or  the  directions  of
  such meeting.  In case of the death of all the trustees of any trust for
  the benefit of any meeting of the Religious Society of Friends or any of
  the  purposes  thereof,  heretofore  appointed,  or who may be hereafter
  appointed by virtue of this section, any  such  meeting  may  appoint  a
  trustee  or  trustees in place of such person or persons, and the person
  or persons thus appointed by such  meeting  shall  succeed  to,  and  be
  invested  with,  all  the  powers,  rights  and duties conferred by this
  section and the deed  or  declaration  of  trust  upon  the  trustee  or
  trustees.  In  case  of the consolidation of two or more meetings of the
  Religious Society of Friends into one meeting,  all  real  and  personal
  property   held   in  trust  for  either  or  any  of  the  meetings  so
  consolidated, or any of the  purposes  thereof,  shall  continue  to  be
  vested   in   the  trustees  holding  the  same  at  the  time  of  such
  consolidation, until their successors shall be chosen as above provided.
  Such consolidated meeting shall have the same rights, powers and  duties
  in  respect  to  such property, estates and trusts and in respect to the
  appointment of such trustees and their successors  as  the  meetings  so
  consolidated  or  either  of  them previously had. This section does not
  impair or diminish the rights of  any  person,  meeting  or  association
  claiming to be a meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, which such
  person,  meeting,  or  association  claiming to be a meeting, had to any
  real or personal property held in trust for the use and benefit  of  any
  meeting  of such society, before the division of such society which took
  place at the annual meeting held  in  the  city  of  New  York  in  May,
  eighteen  hundred  and twenty-eight.   An incorporated or unincorporated
  society or meeting of Shakers or the Religious Society  of  Friends  may
  take  and  hold  property  of  the  value  or yearly income permitted by
  statute to a corporation other than a stock corporation. No person shall
  be a trustee at the same time of more than one  society  of  Shakers  or
  meeting  of  Friends.  A  society of Shakers includes all persons of the
  religious belief of the people called Shakers, resident within the  same
  county.