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N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 28 Electronic meetings
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§ 28. Electronic meetings. Notwithstanding any provision of law, certificate of incorporation or by-laws to the contrary, if the board of trustees of a religious corporation is authorized to determine the place of trustee meetings, corporate meetings, congregant or membership me…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 290 Application of article
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§ 290. Application of article. 1. This article applies to all churches, congregations, societies, parishes, committees and other local organizations governed by jurisdictions, bishoprics, dioceses, missions of any Orthodox Patriarchate, Synod or national church of the Orthodox G…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 291 Application for incorporation
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§ 291. Application for incorporation. An unincorporated congregation, church, parish or society may apply to the appropriate hierarch, bishop or administrator for permission to incorporate under this article. When such permission or sanction for incorporation has been given, in …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 292 Notice of meeting for incorporation
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§ 292. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated parish, congregation, church, society or committee to which this article is applicable shall be given as follows: 1. The notice shall be in writing and shall state …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 293 Provisions governing meetings for incorporation and resolutions to be adopted thereat
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§ 293. Provisions governing meetings for incorporation and resolutions to be adopted thereat. 1. At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, qualified voters shall be those qualified under the by-laws of such unincorporated church, congregation, parish, s…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 294 Certificate of incorporation
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§ 294. Certificate of incorporation. 1. A certificate of incorporation for a church, society, or committee, to which this article is applicable shall be executed and acknowledged by the trustees who sign the resolution for incorporation. The said certificate of incorporation sha…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 295 Government: powers and duties of trustees
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§ 295. Government: powers and duties of trustees. 1. Every church, parish, congregation, society, or committee incorporated or re-incorporated, pursuant to this article, shall recognize and be and remain subject to the jurisdiction and authority of the duly appointed and canonic…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 296 Re-incorporation of existing corporations
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§ 296. Re-incorporation of existing corporations. Any heretofore incorporated church, congregation, parish, society, or committee, to which this article is applicable, may re-incorporate under the provisions of this article by the same procedure hereinbefore set forth for incorp…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 3 Filing and recording certificates of incorporation of religious corporations
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§ 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,…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 300 Application of article
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§ 300. Application of article. This article shall apply only to Spiritualist churches in connection with the National Spiritualist Association.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 301 Application for incorporation
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§ 301. Application for incorporation. An unincorporated Spiritualist church may apply to the National Spiritualist Association for permission to incorporate under this article, which written permission granted by the board of trustees of the National Spiritualist Association sha…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 302 Notice of meeting for incorporation
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§ 302. Notice of meeting for incorporation. A notice of meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated Spiritualist church in connection with the National Spiritualist Association shall be given as follows: 1. The notice shall be in writing and shall state in substan…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 303 Incorporation meeting
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§ 303. Incorporation meeting. 1. At the incorporation meeting, held in pursuance of such notice, the qualified voters shall be all persons of legal age who are in good and regular standing in such church in accordance with the rules and regulations of such church and who have in…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 304 Certificate of incorporation
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§ 304. Certificate of incorporation. The certificate of incorporation shall contain: 1. The name by which the proposed corporation shall be known. 2. The names and addresses of the officers and trustees elected at the incorporation meeting, together with the respective terms of …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 305 Pastor
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§ 305. Pastor. The pastor of the church shall be called, settled or removed and his or her salary fixed, only by the vote of a majority of the members of the corporation duly qualified to vote at elections present and voting at a meeting of such corporation called for that purpo…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 306 Re-incorporation
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§ 306. Re-incorporation. Any heretofore incorporated Spiritualist church in connection with the National Spiritualist Association, may re-incorporate under the provisions of this article by the same procedure hereinbefore set forth for incorporation, substituting at the appropri…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 320 Application of article
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§ 320. Application of article. This article applies only to Methodist churches and to affiliated and subsidiary organizations.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 321 Change of name of churches and affiliated and subsidiary organizations
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§ 321. Change of name of churches and affiliated and subsidiary organizations. 1. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or of any general, special or local law, the three denominations formerly known as the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church and…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 321-A Use of certain names by religious corporations
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§ 321-a. Use of certain names by religious corporations. 1. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or of any general, special or local law, the two denominations formerly known as The Methodist Church and The Evangelical United Brethren Church having united into one unde…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 322 Meeting for incorporation
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§ 322. Meeting for incorporation. 1. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated United 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 § 323 Certificate of incorporation
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§ 323. Certificate of incorporation. The presiding officer of such a meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat shall be appointed at such a meeting to execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate of …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 324 Amendment of certificate of incorporation
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§ 324. Amendment of certificate of incorporation. It shall be lawful for any incorporated United Methodist church, by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting at a regularly called meeting of the corporation, to alter or amend its certificate of incorporation in any m…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 325 Corporate meetings
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§ 325. Corporate meetings. 1. The trustees of an incorporated United Methodist church shall be elected at the annual corporate meeting which shall be held at the time and place fixed by the by-laws, if such time and place be so fixed, and otherwise at a time and place to be fixe…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 326 Changing number of trustees
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§ 326. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated United Methodist church may, at its annual corporate 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 yea…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 327 Vacancies in board of trustees
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§ 327. Vacancies in board of trustees. If any trustee of such incorporated United Methodist church declines to act, resigns, dies, or has his trusteeship terminated by any other means, his office shall be vacant and the quarterly conference of the church in any regular or a spec…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 328 Meetings of trustees
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§ 328. Meetings of trustees. Meetings of the trustees of an incorporated United Methodist church may be held at stated intervals or may be called by giving at least twenty-four hours notice thereof personally or by mail to all trustees and such meeting may be called and such not…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 329 Change of date of annual corporate meetings
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§ 329. Change of date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate meeting of an incorporated United Methodist church may change the date of its annual meeting thereafter. If such a date shall next thereafter occur less than six months after the annual meeting at which such…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 330 Powers and duties of trustees
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§ 330. Powers and duties of trustees. 1. The trustees of an incorporated United Methodist church shall have the custody and control of all the temporalities and property belonging to the corporation and of the revenues from such property, and shall administer the same in accorda…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 331 Control of trustees by corporate meetings
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§ 331. Control of trustees by corporate meetings. A corporate meeting of an incorporated United Methodist church, whose trustees are elective as such, may give directions, not inconsistent with law or with the discipline of The United Methodist Church, as to the manner in which …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 332 Conveyance of property
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§ 332. Conveyance of property. The trustees of an incorporated United Methodist church may sell, mortgage, lease or convey church property by following the provisions of section twelve of article two of this chapter except that in no case shall trustees mortgage or encumber real…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 333 Conveyance of property for church, school or missionary purposes
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§ 333. Conveyance of property for church, school or missionary purposes. Any church or society of The United Methodist Church created by or existing under the laws of the state of New York, having its principal office or place of worship in the state of New York, or whose place …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 334 Bequests
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§ 334. Bequests. Any bequest of real or personal property to an unincorporated United Methodist church may be taken and held by the incorporated annual conference which has jurisdiction over said church and administered for the benefit of said church.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 335 Powers of certain existing corporations to conform charter to article
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§ 335. Powers of certain existing corporations to conform charter to article. A corporation heretofore created in this state by special act or under general law for purposes for which a corporation may be created under this article and other applicable provisions of this chapter…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 336 Definitions
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§ 336. Definitions. 1. The "Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America," as that term is used anywhere in this article, refers to the churches, cathedrals, chapels, congregations, societies, parishes, committees and other religious organizations of the Eastern Orthodox…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 337 Application for incorporation
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§ 337. Application for incorporation. Any number of persons of full age, not less than ten, who are communicants in canonical standing within the Eastern Orthodox Church may associate themselves for the purpose of founding and continuing a congregation acknowledging, conforming …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 338 Notice of a meeting for incorporation
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§ 338. Notice of a meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating a congregation, to which this article is applicable, shall be given as follows: 1. The notice shall be in writing and shall state in substance that a meeting of the members of such…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 339 The meeting for incorporation
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§ 339. The meeting for incorporation. 1. At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, the qualified voters, until otherwise decided as hereinafter provided, shall be all persons of full age, who are then members in good and regular standing of such congreg…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 340 Resolutions to be adopted at the meeting for incorporation
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§ 340. Resolutions to be adopted at the meeting for incorporation. In order to incorporate under this article, the meeting shall adopt the following resolution by a majority of its qualified voters, present and voting, to wit: Whereas, this congregation was founded and establish…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 341 Certificate of incorporation
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§ 341. Certificate of incorporation. 1. If the meeting shall decide that such congregation shall become an incorporated church of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America, a certificate of incorporation therefor shall be executed and acknowledged by the archbisho…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 342 Reincorporation of existing corporations
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§ 342. Reincorporation of existing corporations. Any heretofore incorporated church, to which this article is applicable, may reincorporate under the provisions of this article by the same procedure hereinbefore set forth for incorporation substituting, at appropriate places, th…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 343 Time, place and notice of corporate meetings
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§ 343. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings. 1. 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 t…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 344 Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters
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§ 344. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters. 1. At a corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable, the following persons, and no others, shall be qualified voters, to wit: All persons who are then members in …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 345 Change of date of annual corporate meetings
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§ 345. Change of date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable may, by a majority vote of the duly qualified voters at such meeting, change the date of the annual meeting thereafter. If such date as s…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 346 Changing number of laymen trustees
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§ 346. Changing number of laymen trustees. An incorporated church to which this article is applicable may, at its annual corporate meeting where trustees are elected, by a majority vote of the duly qualified voters at such meeting, change the number of its trustees by adding mor…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 347 The powers and duties of trustees
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§ 347. The powers and duties of trustees. 1. The trustees of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable shall have the custody and control of all the temporalities and property, real or personal, belonging to the corporation and of all the revenues therefrom and …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 348 Meetings of trustees
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§ 348. Meetings of trustees. 1. Meetings of the trustees of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable may be held at stated intervals, or shall be called by the chairman of the board of trustees on his own motion, or upon request of one of the clergymen trustees…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 349 Vacancies among layman trustees
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§ 349. Vacancies among layman trustees. If any layman trustee of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable declines to act, resigns or dies, or ceases to be a qualified voter at a corporate meeting thereof, or has his trusteeship terminated by any other means, h…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 350 Pastoral relations
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§ 350. Pastoral relations. The election, calling, settlement, installation, dismissal, removal, translation, constituting or dissolving of the pastoral relation, or fixing or changing of the salary of a minister, or taking any action for or toward any such purpose, and the calli…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 351 Conveyance of property
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§ 351. 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 arch…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 352 Property of extinct churches
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§ 352. Property of extinct churches. The diocesan council of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America may decide that a church in connection with it or over which it has ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and to which this article is applicable, has become extinct, if …