Title RCO, Religious Corporations

§ 51-a. Application for incorporation. An unincorporated congregation\nof the Holy Orthodox Church in America, or a congregation acknowledging\nthe historic apostolic eastern confession and order in this state, may\napply to the ecclesiastical administrator of American Patriarch…

§ 52. Provisions governing meetings for incorporation. 1. At the\nmeeting for incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, the\nqualified voters, until otherwise decided as hereinafter provided, shall\nbe all persons of full age who have statedly worshipped with such church\…

§ 52-a. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice of meeting for the\npurpose of incorporating an unincorporated parish or congregation\nacknowledging the apostolic eastern confession and order, shall be given\nas follows: 1. The notice shall be in writing and shall state in\n…

§ 53. Resolution to be adopted at incorporation meeting. At such\nmeeting held for the incorporation of such parish, church or\ncongregation as an Apostolic Episcopal Church, by whatever corporate\nname said church shall take, the following resolution shall be passed by\na major…

§ 53-a. Provisions governing meetings for incorporation. 1. If the\nmeeting shall decide that such unincorporated church shall become an\nincorporated church or congregation of the American Patriarchal Orthodox\nChurch, a certificate of incorporation therefor shall be executed a…

§ 54. Certificate of incorporation. 1. If the meeting shall decide\nthat such unincorporated church shall become an incorporated church or\ncongregation of the Apostolic Episcopal Church, a certificate of\nincorporation therefor shall be executed and acknowledged by the bishop\n…

§ 54-a. Rector; vicar; ministers; their appointment, removal and\ncompensation. The rector or vicar or other ministers of any such church,\nby whatever title they are called in ecclesiastical language, shall be\ncalled, settled or removed and their salaries fixed, only by the vo…

§ 55. Annual and special corporate meetings. 1. The annual corporate\nmeeting of every church or congregation incorporated under this article\nshall be held at the time and place fixed by its by-laws, or if no time\nand place is so fixed, then at a time and place to be fixed by …

§ 56. Changing date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate\nmeeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable\nmay, by a majority vote of the duly qualified voters at such meeting,\nchange the date of its annual meeting thereafter. If such date as …

§ 57. Changing number of laymen trustees. An incorporated church to\nwhich this article is applicable may, by a majority vote of the duly\nqualified voters at an annual corporate meeting, change the number of\nits laymen trustees to three, six or nine, and classify them so that …

§ 58. Meetings of trustees. Meetings of the trustees of such\nincorporated church shall be called by giving at least three days'\nnotice thereof in writing, served personally or by mail to all the\ntrustees, unless, by a regularly adopted standing resolution a fixed\ndate for su…

§ 58-a. Vacancies among trustees. If any trustee of any such\nincorporated church declines to act, resigns or dies, or ceases to be a\nqualified voter at a corporate meeting thereof, his office shall be\nvacant; and such vacancy may be filled by the remaining trustees until\nthe…

§ 59. Rector; vicar; ministers; their appointment, removal and\ncompensation. The rector or vicar or other ministers of any such church,\nby whatever title they are called in ecclesiastical language, shall be\ncalled, settled or removed and their salaries fixed, only by the vote…

§ 59-a. Additional qualifications of voters at annual and special\ncorporate meetings. Duly qualified voters at any annual or special\ncorporate meeting of any such incorporated church shall be baptised\npersons, who have been admitted to the full communion relations of such\nch…

§ 59-b. Transfer of property of extinct parishes and churches. The\nMetropolitan Synod Apostolic Episcopal Church may decide that a parish\nor church in connection with it or over which it has ecclesiastical\njurisdiction, and to which this article is applicable, has become\next…

§ 6. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for branch\ninstitutions; establishment, maintenance and management thereof. Any\nreligious corporation may acquire property for associate houses, church\nbuildings, chapels, mission-houses, school-houses for Sunday or\nparo…

§ 60. Application of this article. This article applies only to a\nPresbyterian church in connection with the General Assembly of the\nPresbyterian Church (U.S.A.).\n

§ 61. Creation and termination of pastoral relation. The election,\ncalling, settlement, installation, dismissal, removal, translation,\nconstituting or dissolving of the pastoral relation, or fixing or\nchanging of the salary of a minister or pastor of a Presbyterian church\nin…

§ 62. Worship. Nothing in this chapter contained shall authorize the\nfixing or changing of the times, nature or order of public worship of\nany particular Presbyterian church in any other manner, or by any other\nauthority than in the manner and by the authority provided in the…

§ 63. Incorporation of unincorporated Presbyterian churches and\ndecision as to system of incorporation and government. A meeting for\nthe purpose of incorporation of an unincorporated Presbyterian church in\nconnection with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), must be called and\n…

§ 64. Changing system of trustees. 1. If the trustees of an\nincorporated Presbyterian church in connection with the Presbyterian\nChurch (U.S.A.) shall at any time be elective as trustees and not\ntrustees by virtue of being spiritual officers, the church may, at an\nannual cor…

§ 65. Corporate meetings. 1. In every incorporated church to which\nthis article applies and in which the trustees thereof as such are\nelective, there shall be held an annual corporate meeting. Such annual\ncorporate meeting of every incorporated church to which this article is…

§ 66. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications\nof voters thereat. 1. At a corporate meeting of an incorporated church\nto which this article is applicable the following persons and no others\nshall be qualified voters, to wit: All persons who are then memb…

§ 67. Changing date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate\nmeeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable,\nmay change the date of its annual meeting thereafter. If such date shall\nnext thereafter occur less than six months after the annual me…

§ 68. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated church to which\nthis article is applicable, may, at an annual corporate meeting, change\nthe number of its trustees to three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen,\neighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four, and classify them so that the terms…

§ 69. Trustees, their meetings, vacancies and filling thereof, their\npowers. 1. Two trustees of an incorporated church, to which this\narticle is applicable, may call a meeting of such trustees by giving at\nleast twenty-four hours' notice thereof personally or by mail to the\n…

§ 7. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for cemetery\npurposes; management thereof. A religious corporation may take and hold,\nby purchase, grant, gift or devise, real property for the purposes of a\ncemetery; or such lot or lots in any cemetery connected with it…

§ 7-a. Deeds for cemetery purposes; presumption. Every deed of\nconveyance of real property to a religious corporation used for cemetery\npurposes, whether heretofore or hereafter recorded, shall be presumptive\nevidence that the conveyance vested in the grantee and its successo…

§ 70. Definitions. The words "spiritual officers," as used in this\narticle, include the pastor or pastors, the ruling elders, and the\ndeacons, of any church to which this article is applicable.\n

§ 8. Lot owners' rights. Lots in such cemeteries shall be held\nindivisible, and upon the decease of a proprietor of such lot the title\nthereto shall descend to his heirs-at-law or devisees, subject, however,\nto the following limitations and conditions: If he leaves a widow an…

§ 8-a. Reacquisition of a lot, plot or part thereof by a cemetery. A\nreligious cemetery corporation may, upon application and approval by a\nsupreme court, reacquire, resubdivide, and resell a lot, plot or part\nthereof under the following circumstances:\n (a)(i) If the records…

§ 9. Removal of human remains from one cemetery of a religious\ncorporation to another cemetery owned by it. A religious corporation,\nnotwithstanding the restrictions contained in any conveyance or devise\nto it, may remove the human remains buried in a cemetery owned by it, or…

§ 90. Incorporation of Roman Catholic churches. An unincorporated\nRoman Catholic church in this state may become incorporated as a church\nby executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate of incorporation,\nstating the corporate name by which such church shall be known and …

§ 91. Government of incorporated Roman Catholic churches. The\narchbishop or bishop and the vicar-general of the diocese to which any\nincorporated Roman Catholic church belongs, the rector of such church,\nand their successors in office shall, by virtue of their offices, be\ntr…

§ 92. Division of Roman Catholic parish; disposition of property.\nWherever a Roman Catholic parish has been heretofore or shall hereafter\nbe duly divided by the Roman Catholic bishop having jurisdiction over\nsaid parish, and the original Roman Catholic church corporation is g…

§ 95. Incorporation of Christian Orthodox Catholic churches of the\nEastern Confession. An unincorporated Christian Orthodox Catholic church\nof the Eastern Confession in this state may become incorporated as a\nchurch by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate of\ninc…

§ 96. Government of incorporated Christian Orthodox Catholic churches\nof the Eastern Confession. The six lay members of every incorporated\nChristian Orthodox Catholic church of the Eastern Confession in this\nstate, incorporated on or after April ninth, nineteen hundred\ntwent…