2015 New York Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 2 - (Religious Corporations) GENERAL PROVISIONS
24 - Government of churches incorporated prior to January first, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.

  24.  Government  of  churches  incorporated prior to January first,
  eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. Any provision of this  chapter  shall
  not  be  deemed to apply to any church incorporated under any general or
  special law, prior to January first, eighteen hundred and  twenty-eight,
  if  such  provision  is inconsistent with or in derogation of any of the
  rights and privileges of such corporation as they existed under the  law
  by  or  pursuant  to  which  such  corporation  was  formed, unless such
  corporation subsequent to such date, shall have lawfully  reincorporated
  under a law enacted since the first day of January, eighteen hundred and
  twenty-eight,  or  unless  the  trustees  of  such corporation shall, by
  resolution, determine that the provisions of this  chapter  applying  to
  churches  of  the  same  denomination  and to the trustees thereof shall
  apply to such church, and unless such resolution shall be  submitted  to
  the  next  ensuing  annual  meeting  of  such  church, and ratified by a
  majority of the  votes  of  the  qualified  voters  present  and  voting
  thereon.  Notice  of the adoption of such resolution and of the proposed
  submission thereof for ratification, shall be given with the  notice  of
  such  annual  meeting, and in addition thereto, mailed to each member of
  such church corporation at his last known post-office address, at  least
  two  weeks  prior  to such annual meeting, and published once a week for
  two successive weeks immediately preceding such meeting in a  newspaper,
  if  any,  published  in the city, village or town in which the principal
  place of worship of such corporation is  located,  and  otherwise  in  a
  newspaper  published  in  an  adjoining  town.  If such resolution is so
  ratified, the trustees of such church shall cause a certificate  setting
  forth  a  copy of such resolution, its adoption by the board of trustees
  and its due ratification by the members of such corporation, to be filed
  in the office of the clerk of the county in which the principal place of
  worship of such corporation is located. Such county  clerk  shall  cause
  such  certificate  to  be  recorded in the book in which certificates of
  incorporation of religious corporations are  recorded  in  pursuance  of
  law.