2016 New York Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 23 - (Religious Corporations) ORGANIZATIONS OF THE SIKH FAITH
470 - Application.

  470.  Application.  1.  This  article applies to any unincorporated
  church  affiliated  with  the  Sikh  faith,  and   to   any   heretofore
  incorporated   church   or   body,   so  affiliated,  which  desires  to
  reincorporate  pursuant  to  this  article.  Independent  churches   may
  incorporate  or  reincorporate under this article in the manner provided
  in sections four hundred seventy-one and four hundred  seventy-seven  of
  this article, and all the provisions of this article shall apply to such
  churches as the context requires.
2.   Nothing  hereinafter  provided  shall  prevent  or  prohibit  any
  heretofore incorporated church or body, affiliated with the  Sikh  faith
  from  maintaining  and  continuing the relationship which such church or
  body enjoyed at the time of the effective date of  this  article  should
  such  church  or  body  determine  not to reincorporate pursuant to this
  article.