2017 New York Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 2 - General Provisions
3 - Filing and Recording Certificates of Incorporation of Religious Corporations.

  3.  Filing and recording certificates of incorporation of religious
  corporations.  The  certificate  of   incorporation   of   a   religious
  corporation shall be acknowledged or proved before an officer authorized
  to  take  the  acknowledgment  or  proof of deeds or conveyances of real
  estate, to be recorded in the county in which the  principal  office  or
  place  of  worship of said corporation is or is intended to be situated,
  and shall be filed and recorded in the  office  of  the  clerk  of  said
  county.  If  there  is not, or is not intended to be, any such office or
  place of worship, the certificate shall be filed  and  recorded  in  the
  office  of the secretary of state. Where a religious corporation removes
  to another county within the state a duplicate copy of  its  certificate
  of  incorporation  together with a statement of such removal duly signed
  and acknowledged by the directors and officers of said  corporation  may
  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the clerk of said county to which it has
  removed.
The recording of any certificate of a religious corporation  organized
  under  provisions  of  "An  act  to  provide  for  the  incorporation of
  religious societies," passed April fifth, eighteen hundred and thirteen,
  and of the acts amending the same, in the office of a clerk of a  county
  prior  to  the  passage  of  chapter thirty-five of the laws of eighteen
  hundred and ninety-seven, instead of in the office of  the  register  of
  such  county,  shall  be  regarded  and  construed and such recording is
  hereby declared to be of the same validity, force and  effect  as  would
  have  been  the  recording of such certificate in the proper office. And
  every act, deed, matter and  thing  done  or  performed  by  every  such
  religious  society or corporation since the recording of its certificate
  in the office of said county clerk is  hereby  ratified,  confirmed  and
  declared  to  be as valid in all respects as if the said certificate had
  been properly and appropriately recorded in the office of  the  register
  of  the  county  in  which  said  religious  society  or corporation was
  organized; but this section shall not  affect  any  suit  or  proceeding
  already commenced arising out of such original mistake.