2019 New York Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 24 - Organizations of the Islamic Faith
487 - Reincorporation of Present Incorporated Churches.

§ 487. Reincorporation of present incorporated churches. 1. Any church
  heretofore  incorporated may, subject to restrictions and limitations of
  existing laws, 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 and acknowledged by
  all the  trustees  of  said  church  in  office  at  the  time  of  such
  reincorporation,  setting  forth that the said church by a majority vote
  of the members present at a duly called meeting of  the  membership,  as
  determined  by  the  by-laws  of  the  existing  corporation, desires to
  reincorporate under the provisions of  this  article.  Such  certificate
  shall set forth those items specified in section four hundred eighty-six
  of this article.
2.  The  reincorporated  corporation shall be deemed a continuation of
  the previously organized corporation, but thereafter it shall have  only
  such  rights  and  powers and be subject only to such obligations as any
  corporation created under this  article,  provided,  however,  that  all
  property  rights and liabilities of the previously organized corporation
  shall be vested in and assumed by the  reincorporated  corporation.  The
  corporate  by-laws  and officers of the reincorporated corporation shall
  be the same as those of its predecessor until changed  pursuant  to  the
  said  by-laws,  provided  they conform to the provisions of section four
  hundred eighty-five of this article.