2016 New York Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 3-A - (Religious Corporations) APOSTOLIC EPISCOPAL PARISHES OR CHURCHES
54 - Certificate of incorporation.

  54.  Certificate  of  incorporation. 1. If the meeting shall decide
  that such unincorporated church shall become an incorporated  church  or
  congregation  of  the  Apostolic  Episcopal  Church,  a  certificate  of
  incorporation therefor shall be executed and acknowledged by the  bishop
  who  is  the  ecclesiastical  administrator,  the  vicar-general and the
  chancellor of Metropolitan Synod Apostolic Episcopal Church, the  rector
  or  vicar  of the church or congregation and by the laymen trustees that
  have been elected, and by the clerk of the  corporation,  and  the  said
  certificate of incorporation shall contain the following:
(a) The name of the proposed corporation;
(b)  The  number  of laymen trustees thereof, the names of the persons
  elected as laymen trustees, the terms of  office  for  which  they  were
  respectively elected as laymen trustees;
(c)  An  exact  copy of the resolution which provides for the clerical
  trustees by virtue of their offices;
(d) The county and town, city or village in which the principal  place
  of worship is or is intended to be located.
2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the
  county in which such church is or is intended to be located, such church
  shall  be  a  corporation by the name stated in the certificate, and the
  persons therein stated to be elected clerical  and  laymen  trustees  of
  such  church  shall  be the trustees therefor for their respective terms
  and until their successors are elected.