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N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 1 Short title
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§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Religious Corporations Law."
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 10 Acquisition of property by two or more religious corporations for a common parsonage
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§ 10. Acquisition of property by two or more religious corporations for a common parsonage. Two or more religious corporations may acquire such real property as may be necessary for use as a parsonage, and the right, title and interest of each corporation therein shall be in pro…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 100 Incorporation of Ruthenian Greek Catholic churches
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§ 100. Incorporation of Ruthenian Greek Catholic churches. An unincorporated Ruthenian Greek Catholic church of the Greek rite in this state may become incorporated as a church by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate of incorporation, stating the corporate name by w…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 101 Government of incorporated Ruthenian Greek Catholic churches
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§ 101. Government of incorporated Ruthenian Greek Catholic churches. The bishop, or in case of vacancy in the office of the bishop, then the administrator, the chancellor of the diocese to which any incorporated Ruthenian Greek Catholic church belongs, together with the pastor o…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 102 Transfer of other religious organizations to Ruthenian Greek Catholic church; disposition of property
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§ 102. Transfer of other religious organizations to Ruthenian Greek Catholic church; disposition of property. Any religious organization or organizations incorporated under and by virtue of any law of this state, whether incorporated under article five of the religious corporati…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 105 Definitions
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§ 105. Definitions. The "Orthodox Church in America", as that term is used anywhere in this article, refers to that group of churches, cathedrals, chapels, congregations, societies, parishes, committees and other religious organizations of the Eastern Confession (Eastern Orthodo…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 106 Incorporation of churches of Orthodox Church in America
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§ 106. Incorporation of churches of Orthodox Church in America. An unincorporated American Orthodox church in this state may be incorporated by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate of incorporation, stating the corporate name by which such church shall be known and …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 107 Government of incorporated churches of Orthodox Church in America; powers and duties of trustees
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§ 107. Government of incorporated churches of Orthodox Church in America; powers and duties of trustees. 1. Every American Orthodox church in this state, whether incorporated before or after the said proclamation of autocephaly, and whether incorporated or reincorporated pursuan…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 108 Reincorporation of existing corporations
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§ 108. Reincorporation of existing corporations. Any heretofore incorporated American Orthodox church may reincorporate under the provisions of this article, by filing in the office of the county clerk in the county in which its principal place of worship is located, a certifica…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 11 Correction and confirmation of conveyances to religious corporations
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§ 11. Correction and confirmation of conveyances to religious corporations. If, in a conveyance of real property, or in any instrument intended to operate as such, heretofore or hereafter made to a religious corporation, its corporate name is not stated or is not correctly state…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 110 Decision by a Reformed Dutch or Reformed Presbyterian church as to system of incorporation and government
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§ 110. Decision by a Reformed Dutch or Reformed Presbyterian church as to system of incorporation and government. The minister or ministers, if there be any, and the elders and deacons of an unincorporated church in connection with the Reformed church in America, the true Reform…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 111 Decision by Lutheran church as to system of incorporation and government
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§ 111. Decision by Lutheran church as to system of incorporation and government. A meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated Evangelical Lutheran church must be called and held in pursuance of the provisions of article ten of this chapter, except that the first …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 112 Incorporation of Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Evangelical Lutheran churches under this article
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§ 112. Incorporation of Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Evangelical Lutheran churches under this article. If any unincorporated church in connection with the Reformed church in America, the true Reformed Dutch church in the United States of America, the Reformed Presby…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 113 Consistory of a Reformed church in America; minister, how chosen
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§ 113. Consistory of a Reformed church in America; minister, how chosen. Any church in connection with the Reformed church in America, the choice or election of the members of whose consistory is not subject to the ecclesiastical rules or jurisdiction of such Reformed church in …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 114 Reformed churches in America, changing system of choosing trustees; minister, how chosen
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§ 114. Reformed churches in America, changing system of choosing trustees; minister, how chosen. If the ministers, elders and deacons who, at any time, by virtue of their offices, constitute the trustees of any Reformed church in America, or of any true Reformed Dutch church in …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 115 Reformed Presbyterian churches, changing system of choosing trustees; pew rents and minister's salary
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§ 115. Reformed Presbyterian churches, changing system of choosing trustees; pew rents and minister's salary. If any incorporated Reformed Presbyterian church, at a meeting of the church or congregation, determine that the deacons of such church shall be the trustees thereof, th…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 116 Evangelical Lutheran church, changing system of electing trustees
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§ 116. Evangelical Lutheran church, changing system of electing trustees. If the trustees of an incorporated Evangelical Lutheran church shall at any time be elective in pursuance of article ten of this chapter, the church may, at an annual corporate meeting, if notice thereof b…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 12 Sale, mortgage and lease of real property of religious corporations
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§ 12. Sale, mortgage and lease of real property of religious corporations. 1. A religious corporation shall not sell, mortgage or lease for a term exceeding five years any of its real property without applying for and obtaining leave of the court or the attorney general therefor…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 13 Consolidation or merger of incorporated churches
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§ 13. Consolidation or merger of incorporated churches. Two or more incorporated churches may enter into an agreement, under their respective corporate seals, for the consolidation or merger of such corporations, setting forth the name of the proposed new corporation or survivin…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 130 Notice of meeting for incorporation
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§ 130. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated Baptist church shall be given as follows: The notice shall be in writing, and shall state, in substance, that a meeting of such unincorporated church will be held a…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 131 The meeting for incorporation
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§ 131. The meeting for incorporation. 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 church, b…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 132 The certificate of incorporation
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§ 132. 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 § 133 Time, place and notice of corporate meetings
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§ 133. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings. The annual corporate meeting of every incorporated Baptist church shall be held at the time and place fixed by or in pursuance of law therefor, if such time and place be so fixed, and otherwise, at a time and place to be fixed…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 134 Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters thereat
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§ 134. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters thereat. At a corporate meeting of an incorporated Baptist church the qualified voters shall be all persons who are then members of such church in good and regular standing by admission into full com…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 135 Changing date of annual corporate meetings
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§ 135. Changing date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate meeting of an incorporated Baptist church may change the date of its annual meeting thereafter. If the date fixed for the annual meeting shall be less than six months after the annual meeting at which such ch…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 136 Changing number of trustees
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§ 136. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated Baptist church may, at an annual corporate meeting, change the number of its trustees to not less than three, nor more than eighteen, or classify them so that the terms of one-third expire each year, provided that notice of suc…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 137 Meetings of trustees
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§ 137. Meetings of trustees. Meetings of the trustees of an incorporated Baptist church shall be called by giving at least twenty-four hours' notice thereof personally or by mail to all the trustees and such notice may be given by two of the trustees, but by the unanimous consen…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 138 The creation and filling of vacancies among trustees of such churches
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§ 138. The creation and filling of vacancies among trustees of such churches. If any trustee of an incorporated Baptist church declines to act, resigns or dies, or having been a member or such church ceases to be such member, or not having been a member of such church, ceases to…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 139 Control of trustees by corporate meetings of such churches; salary of minister
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§ 139. Control of trustees by corporate meetings of such churches; salary of minister. The trustees of an incorporated Baptist church shall have no power to settle or remove a minister or to fix his salary or, without the consent of a corporate meeting, to incur debts beyond wha…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 14 Judicial investigation of amount of property of religious corporations
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§ 14. Judicial investigation of amount of property of religious corporations. The supreme court at a special term, held in the judicial district in which the principal place of worship or of holding corporate meetings of a religious corporation is situated, may require such corp…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 140 Transfer of property to Baptist corporations
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§ 140. Transfer of property to Baptist corporations. Any incorporated Baptist 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 last place of worship was within the state of …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 15 Corporations with governing authority over, or advisory relations with, churches or synods, or both
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§ 15. Corporations with governing authority over, or advisory relations with, churches or synods, or both. 1. An unincorporated diocesan convention, presbytery, classes, synod unless otherwise provided, annual or biennial conference or convention, or other governing or advisory …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 15-A Consolidation of incorporated presbyteries
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§ 15-a. Consolidation of incorporated presbyteries. 1. Two or more incorporated presbyteries may enter into an agreement for the consolidation or merger of such corporations and such corporations may be consolidated or merged so as to form a single corporation which may be eithe…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 15-B Consolidation or merger of incorporated Presbyterian and Lutheran synods
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§ 15-b. Consolidation or merger of incorporated Presbyterian and Lutheran synods. 1. (a) Presbyterian. One or more foreign religious synods and one or more domestic religious synods may merge into a single religious corporation of this state, which shall be one of the constituen…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 16 Property of extinct churches
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§ 16. Property of extinct churches. Such incorporated governing body may decide that a church, parish or society in connection with it or over which it has ecclesiastical jurisdiction, has become extinct, if it has failed for two consecutive years next prior thereto, to maintain…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 160 Notice of meeting for incorporation
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§ 160. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated church of the United Church of Christ or Independent church shall be given as follows: The notice shall be in writing, and shall state, in substance, that a meeting…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 161 The meeting for incorporation
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§ 161. The meeting for incorporation. 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 worshiped with such church and have regularly contr…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 162 The certificate of incorporation
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§ 162. 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 § 163 Time, place and notice of corporate meetings
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§ 163. 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 trus…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 164 Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters
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§ 164. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters. At every corporate meeting of a 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 good and regula…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 165 Changing date of annual corporate meetings
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§ 165. Changing date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate meeting of any church incorporated under this article may change the date of its subsequent annual meetings. If the date fixed for the annual meeting shall be less than six months after the annual meeting at …
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 166 Changing number of trustees
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§ 166. Changing number of trustees. Any such incorporated church may, at an annual corporate meeting, change the number of its trustees to three, six, nine, twelve or fifteen, classifying them so that the terms of one-third expire each year, provided that notice of such intended…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 167 Meetings of trustees
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§ 167. Meetings of trustees. Meetings of the trustees of any such incorporated church shall be called by giving at least twenty-four hours' notice thereof personally or by mail to all the trustees; and such notice may be given by two of the trustees; but by the unanimous consent…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 168 Vacancies among trustees
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§ 168. 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 next…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 169 Limitation of powers of trustees
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§ 169. Limitation of powers of trustees. The trustees of any such incorporated church shall have no power to call, settle or remove a minister or to fix his salary, nor without the consent of a corporate meeting, to incur debts, beyond what is necessary for the administration of…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 169-A Application for incorporation
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§ 169-a. Application for incorporation. Any Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Greek rite may become incorporated in this state as a church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America by executing, acknowledging and filing a certificate of incorporation as hereinafter provided.
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 169-B Notice of meeting for incorporation and provisions governing meetings for incorporation
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§ 169-b. Notice of meeting for incorporation and provisions governing meetings for incorporation. 1. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Greek rite shall be in writing and shall state in substance that a meeting…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 169-C Certification of incorporation
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§ 169-c. Certification of incorporation. 1. The presiding officer of such meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat shall execute and acknowledge a certificate of incorporation which shall set forth the following: (a) The name of the proposed corporation.…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 169-D Government; powers and duties of the trustees
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§ 169-d. Government; powers and duties of the trustees. 1. Every Ukrainian Orthodox church incorporated pursuant to this article shall recognize and be subject to the jurisdiction of the duly appointed bishop or archbishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America, or his lawf…
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 169-E Reincorporation of existing corporations
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§ 169-e. Reincorporation of existing corporations. Any Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Greek rite heretofore incorporated, other than those incorporated under the provisions of article five of the religious corporations law, may reincorporate under the provisions of this articl…