2021 New York Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 3-B - Parishes or Churches of the Holy Orthodox Church in America
50-EE - Certificate of Incorporation.

§  50-ee. Certificate of incorporation. 1. If the meeting shall decide
that such unincorporated church shall become an incorporated  church  or
congregation  of  the  Holy Orthodox Church in America, a certificate of
incorporation  therefor  shall  be  executed  and  acknowledged  by  the
archbishop  who  is  the ecclesiastical administrator, the vicar-general
and the  chancellor  of  Metropolitan  Synod  Holy  Orthodox  Church  in
America,  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.