2015 New York Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 8 - (Religious Corporations) Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches
162 - The certificate of incorporation.

  162. The certificate of incorporation.  If the meeting shall decide
  that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding
  officer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall execute
  a certificate 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, after it shall have been  acknowledged  or  proved  as
  hereinbefore provided, 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 shall be the trustees  thereof  for  the
  terms   for  which  they  were  respectively  elected  and  until  their
  respective successors shall be elected.