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N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 208 Consolidation
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§ 208. Consolidation. Any two or more religious corporations of the Jewish faith, incorporated under or by general or special laws, may enter into an agreement for the consolidation or merger of such corporations, setting forth the terms and conditions of consolidation, the name…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 209 Effect of consolidation
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§ 209. Effect of consolidation. The consolidated or merged corporation shall possess all the powers of the constituent corporations and shall have the power and be subject to the duties and obligations of a congregation of the Jewish faith formed for like purposes under the reli…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 21 Corporations for acquiring camp-meeting grounds for the Reformed Methodist denomination
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§ 21. Corporations for acquiring camp-meeting grounds for the Reformed Methodist denomination. The visiting elder of a visiting elder's district, erected by an annual conference of the Reformed Methodist denomination, and three members or more in good and regular standing of thr…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 21-A Corporations for acquiring lands for parsonage or camp-meeting purposes for the Free Methodist denomination
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§ 21-a. Corporations for acquiring lands for parsonage or camp-meeting purposes for the Free Methodist denomination. The district elder and a majority of the stewards residing in the district elder's district, elected by an annual conference of the Free Methodist Church denomina…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 210 Incorporation of church connected with supreme council of Independent Associated Spiritualists
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§ 210. Incorporation of church connected with supreme council of Independent Associated Spiritualists. A meeting for incorporating or reincorporating a church in connection with the supreme council of the Independent Associated Spiritualists, Incorporated, shall be held in pursu…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 211 Incorporation of church in connection with Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc
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§ 211. Incorporation of church in connection with Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc. A meeting for incorporating or reincorporating a church in connection with Spiritual Science Mother Church, Inc., shall be held in pursuance of the preceding provisions of this article. Such …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 22 Establishing and maintaining a home for aged poor
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§ 22. Establishing and maintaining a home for aged poor. An incorporated church or congregation in this state, either by itself or in conjunction with other incorporated churches or congregations, shall have power to establish and maintain by its or their trustees or other offic…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 220 Joint meeting for the purposes of incorporation
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§ 220. Joint meeting for the purposes of incorporation. Two or more unincorporated churches, which separately agree on a plan of union and determine to meet together for the purpose of being incorporated as a union church, may be incorporated as a union church in pursuance of th…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 221 Government of incorporated union churches
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§ 221. Government of incorporated union churches. Any union church or society having a common place of worship or holding property belonging jointly to the several societies composing the same, but the sole right of occupancy of which is reserved to each of them in proportion to…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225 Application of this article
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§ 225. Application of this article. This article applies only to churches, societies, districts, conferences, and such other authorized religious organizations of the Free Methodist Church of North America as are or shall be situated in the state of New York.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-A Organization of a free Methodist church
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§ 225-a. Organization of a free Methodist church. It shall be lawful for any number of persons, not less than six, with the consent of the district superintendent of the district in which the proposed church is to be located, to organize a free Methodist church and to procure it…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-B Meeting for incorporation
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§ 225-b. Meeting for incorporation. 1. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated free Methodist church shall be in writing and shall state in substance, that a meeting of such unincorporated church will be held at its usual place of worship at a spec…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-C Certificate of incorporation
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§ 225-c. Certificate of incorporation. 1. The presiding officer of such a meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat shall be appointed by such meeting to execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-D Amendment of articles of incorporation
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§ 225-d. Amendment of articles of incorporation. 1. It shall be lawful for any incorporated church coming under the provisions of this article, by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting at a regularly called society meeting, to alter or amend its articles of incorpo…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-E Effect upon existing corporations
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§ 225-e. Effect upon existing corporations. Every free Methodist church heretofore incorporated in the state of New York shall, three months after this article takes effect, automatically come under its provisions, unless in the meantime it shall elect by a two-thirds vote of al…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-F Annual election of trustees
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§ 225-f. Annual election of trustees. 1. Trustees of an incorporated free Methodist church shall be elected at the annual society meeting held within three months prior to the session of the annual conference to which the society belongs. Notice of such meeting shall be publicly…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-G Changing number of trustees
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§ 225-g. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated church may, at its annual meeting where trustees are elected, by vote change the number of its trustees to three, six or nine by adding more trustees, one-third of which shall be elected for three years, one-third for two yea…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-H Vacancies in board of trustees
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§ 225-h. Vacancies in board of trustees. If any trustee of such incorporated church declines to act, resigns or dies; or, having been a member of such church, ceases to be a member; or removes beyond the bounds of the circuit in which he is elected, his office shall be vacant an…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-I Trustee meetings
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§ 225-i. Trustee meetings. 1. Meetings of the trustees of an incorporated free Methodist church shall be called by giving at least forty-eight hours' notice thereof personally or by mail to all the trustees, and such notice may be given by the pastor, the secretary of the board …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-J Powers of incorporated societies
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§ 225-j. Powers of incorporated societies. 1. An incorporated free Methodist church may, under restrictions hereinafter provided, sell, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of or encumber its real estate, but not for current expenses. 2. Said corporation shall at all times permit such…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-K Powers and duties of the trustees
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§ 225-k. Powers and duties of the trustees. 1. The trustees shall have the custody of all the temporalities and property, real and personal, belonging to the corporation and of the revenues therefrom, and shall administer the same in accordance with the discipline, rules and usa…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-L Conveyance of property
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§ 225-l. Conveyance of property. Whenever it may become necessary or advisable to mortgage or dispose of any church property, the trustees may mortgage or sell and convey the same by first securing the authority of the society for such sale or mortgage and the approval of the di…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-M Property of extinct churches
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§ 225-m. Property of extinct churches. 1. Any incorporated annual conference or other governing body of the free Methodist church may decide that a church society in connection with it or over which it has ecclesiastical jurisdiction, has become extinct, if it has failed for two…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-N Corporations for acquiring property for special religious purposes
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§ 225-n. Corporations for acquiring property for special religious purposes. 1. An annual conference, a district quarterly conference, a circuit consisting of two or more organized churches or any other regularly organized free Methodist body may incorporate for the purpose of c…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-O Saving clause
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§ 225-o. Saving clause. Article ten of this chapter is not applicable to corporations of the free Methodist church incorporated under the provisions of this article.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 23 Powers of churches created by special laws
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§ 23. Powers of churches created by special laws. If a church be incorporated by special law, it and its trustees shall have, in addition to the powers conferred on it by such law, all the powers and privileges conferred on incorporated churches and the trustees thereof respecti…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 24 Government of churches incorporated prior to January first, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight
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§ 24. Government of churches incorporated prior to January first, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. Any provision of this chapter shall not be deemed to apply to any church incorporated under any general or special law, prior to January first, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight,…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 25 Pastoral relation
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§ 25. Pastoral relation. No provision of this chapter authorizes the calling, settlement, dismissal or removal of a minister, or the fixing or changing of his salary, and a meeting of a church corporation for any such purpose shall be called, held, moderated, conducted, governed…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 26 Worship
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§ 26. Worship. No provision of this chapter authorizes the fixing or changing of the times, nature or order of public or social or other worship of any church, in any other manner or by any other authority than in the manner and by the authority provided in the laws, regulations…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 260 Laws repealed
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§ 260. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 261 When to take effect
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§ 261. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect immediately.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 262 This article applies only to a Spiritualist church in connection with the General Assembly of Spiritualists
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* § 262. This article applies only to a Spiritualist church in connection with the General Assembly of Spiritualists. * NB Enacted without section heading.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 263 Incorporation of unincorporated Spiritualist churches and system of incorporation and government
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§ 263. Incorporation of unincorporated Spiritualist churches and system of incorporation and government. A meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated Spiritualist church in connection with the General Assembly of Spiritualists must be called and held in pursuance…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 264 At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance to such notice, the qualified voters unless otherwise decided as hereinafter provided...
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* § 264. At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance to such notice, the qualified voters unless otherwise decided as hereinafter provided shall all be persons of full age who have worshipped with such church, and have regularly contributed to its support according to it…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 265 The certificate of incorporation
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§ 265. The certificate of incorporation. If the meeting shall decide that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding officer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall execute a certificate setting forth the name of the proposed corporation…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 266 Time, place and notice of corporate meetings
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§ 266. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings. The annual corporate meeting of every church incorporated under this article shall be held at the time and place fixed by its by-laws, or if no time and place be so fixed then at a time and place to be first fixed by its trust…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 267 Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters
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§ 267. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters. At every corporate meeting of a church incorporated under this article all persons who for one year next preceding such meeting have worshipped with such church and have regularly contributed to its…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 268 Election and salary of ministers
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§ 268. Election and salary of ministers. The ministerial and clerical attendants of any such church shall be called, elected and removed and their salaries fixed as such corporation in its by-laws shall provide, but no such church shall call, or elect any such person to perform …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 269 Duties of ministers, et cetera
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§ 269. Duties of ministers, et cetera. Ministers and clerical attendants shall perform such duties as the by-laws shall direct in accordance with the rules and regulations of the General Assembly of Spiritualists.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 27 Reservation as to Baptist churches, churches of the United Church of Christ and Congregational Christian churches
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§ 27. Reservation as to Baptist churches, churches of the United Church of Christ and Congregational Christian churches. Sections twenty-five and twenty-six are not applicable to a Baptist church, a church of the United Church of Christ, a Congregational Christian church or to a…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 270 Reincorporation of present incorporated Spiritualist churches
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§ 270. Reincorporation of present incorporated Spiritualist churches. Any Spiritualist church heretofore incorporated may reincorporate under the provisions of this article by filing in the county clerk's office of the county in which its principal place of worship is located, a…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 271 Any church incorporating or reincorporating under this article shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the General Assembly of S...
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* § 271. Any church incorporating or reincorporating under this article shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the General Assembly of Spiritualists relating to affiliated churches. * NB Enacted without section heading.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 272 The word church as used herein shall mean any church or society organized for the purpose of worshipping as Spiritualists as a religion
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* § 272. The word church as used herein shall mean any church or society organized for the purpose of worshipping as Spiritualists as a religion. * NB Enacted without section heading.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 273 Application of article
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§ 273. Application of article. This article applies only to churches of the Nazarene in connection with the general assembly of the church of the Nazarene.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 274 Incorporation
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§ 274. Incorporation. An unincorporated church of the Nazarene may become incorporated as a church, by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate of incorporation, stating the corporate name by which such church shall be known, and the county, town, city or village where …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 275 Government
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§ 275. Government. The district superintendent of the district to which any incorporated church of the Nazarene belongs, and his successor in office, shall be by virtue of his office, a trustee of said church; and the laymen, members of such church who signed said certificate of…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 276 Reincorporation of present incorporated churches of the Nazarene
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§ 276. Reincorporation of present incorporated churches of the Nazarene. Any church of the Nazarene heretofore incorporated 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 loc…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 277 Rules and regulations
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§ 277. Rules and regulations. Any church incorporated or reincorporated under this article, shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the general assembly of the church of the Nazarene.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 278 Corporations for acquiring camp meeting grounds for camp meeting purposes
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§ 278. Corporations for acquiring camp meeting grounds for camp meeting purposes. The district superintendent and the members of the camp meeting board duly elected by a district assembly of the Church of the Nazarene may become incorporated for the purposes of acquiring, mainta…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 279 Incorporation of advisory board of a district of the Church of the Nazarene
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§ 279. Incorporation of advisory board of a district of the Church of the Nazarene. 1. The district superintendent and the members of the advisory board duly elected by a district assembly of the Church of the Nazarene may incorporate for the purpose of advancing the development…