Title RCO, Religious Corporations

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

§ 52. Provisions governing meetings 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 have statedly worshipped with such church and…

§ 52-a. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice of meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated parish or congregation acknowledging the apostolic eastern confession and order, shall be given as follows: 1. The notice shall be in writing and shall state in subs…

§ 53. Resolution to be adopted at incorporation meeting. At such meeting held for the incorporation of such parish, church or congregation as an Apostolic Episcopal Church, by whatever corporate name said church shall take, the following resolution shall be passed by a majority …

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

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

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

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

§ 56. Changing 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 its annual meeting thereafter. If such date as so …

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

§ 58. Meetings of trustees. Meetings of the trustees of such incorporated church shall be called by giving at least three days' notice thereof in writing, served personally or by mail to all the trustees, unless, by a regularly adopted standing resolution a fixed date for such m…

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

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

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

§ 59-b. Transfer of property of extinct parishes and churches. The Metropolitan Synod Apostolic Episcopal Church may decide that a parish or church in connection with it or over which it has ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and to which this article is applicable, has become extinct…

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

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

§ 61. Creation and termination of pastoral relation. 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 pastor of a Presbyterian church in con…

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

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

§ 64. Changing system of trustees. 1. If the trustees of an incorporated Presbyterian church in connection with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) shall at any time be elective as trustees and not trustees by virtue of being spiritual officers, the church may, at an annual corpora…

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

§ 66. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters thereat. 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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 90. Incorporation of Roman Catholic churches. An unincorporated Roman Catholic church in this state 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…

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

§ 92. Division of Roman Catholic parish; disposition of property. Wherever a Roman Catholic parish has been heretofore or shall hereafter be duly divided by the Roman Catholic bishop having jurisdiction over said parish, and the original Roman Catholic church corporation is give…

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

§ 96. Government of incorporated Christian Orthodox Catholic churches of the Eastern Confession. The six lay members of every incorporated Christian Orthodox Catholic church of the Eastern Confession in this state, incorporated on or after April ninth, nineteen hundred twenty-th…