2016 New York Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 8-A - (Religious Corporations) CHURCHES OF THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHES OF AMERICA
169-E - Reincorporation of existing corporations.

  169-e.  Reincorporation  of  existing  corporations.  Any Ukrainian
  Orthodox church of the Greek rite heretofore  incorporated,  other  than
  those incorporated under the provisions of article five of the religious
  corporations  law,  may  reincorporate  under  the  provisions  of  this
  article, by filing in the county clerk's office in the county  in  which
  its  principal place of worship is located, a certificate, signed by the
  trustees in office at the  time  of  such  reincorporation,  or  by  the
  majority  of them, setting forth that they desire to reincorporate under
  the provisions of this act, the corporate  name  by  which  such  church
  shall  be  known,  the  county, town, city or village where its place of
  worship is or is intended to be located, and the number and the names of
  the trustees who are to hold office until the  next  annual  meeting  of
  said  corporation.  If  the  bishop  or archbishop having ecclesiastical
  jurisdiction over such church is not one of  the  trustees  signing  the
  certificate  of  reincorporation,  such  certificate  shall not be valid
  until said bishop or archbishop has given his assent in writing to  such
  reincorporation  and  the  same  is  made  a  part  of  the certificate.
  Immediately upon the filing of such certificate all the right, title and
  interest of such organization or corporation  in  any  estate,  real  or
  personal,  shall,  with  all  franchise and charter rights, be vested in
  said body corporate and politic  so  created  under  this  act  and  the
  original incorporation of such organization shall be null and void.
The  incorporation of a new church or reincorporation of an old church
  under this article shall not be valid until the same has  been  approved
  by a justice of the supreme court.