New York Laws
Article 2 - General Provisions
10 - Acquisition of Property by Two or More Religious Corporations for a Common Parsonage.

ยง 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
proportion to its contribution to the cost of such property. The
trustees of each corporation shall, from time to time, appoint one of
their number to be a trustee of such common parsonage property, to hold
office during the pleasure of the appointing trustees or until his
successor be appointed. The trustees so appointed shall have the care
and management of such property and may make such improvements thereupon
as they deem necessary, and determine the proportion of the expense of
the maintenance thereof which each corporation shall bear. If at any
time either of such corporations acquires or desires to acquire for its
own exclusive use as a parsonage other real property, it may, in
pursuance of the provisions of law, relating to the disposition of real
property by religious corporations, sell and convey its interest in such
common parsonage property to any one or more of the other corporations
having an interest therein.

Structure New York Laws

New York Laws

RCO - Religious Corporations

Article 2 - General Provisions

3 - Filing and Recording Certificates of Incorporation of Religious Corporations.

4 - Property of Unincorporated Society Transferred by Its Incorporation.

4-A - Age Qualifications of Voters.

5 - General Powers and Duties of Trustees of Religious Corporations.

5-A - Investment of Funds.

5-B - .

6 - Acquisition of Property by Religious Corporations for Branch Institutions; Establishment, Maintenance and Management Thereof.

7 - Acquisition of Property by Religious Corporations for Cemetery Purposes; Management Thereof.

7-A - Deeds for Cemetery Purposes; Presumption.

8 - Lot Owners' Rights.

8-A - Reacquisition of a Lot, Plot or Part Thereof by a Cemetery.

9 - Removal of Human Remains From One Cemetery of a Religious Corporation to Another Cemetery Owned by It.

10 - Acquisition of Property by Two or More Religious Corporations for a Common Parsonage.

11 - Correction and Confirmation of Conveyances to Religious Corporations.

12 - Sale, Mortgage and Lease of Real Property of Religious Corporations.

13 - Consolidation or Merger of Incorporated Churches.

14 - Judicial Investigation of Amount of Property of Religious Corporations.

15 - Corporations With Governing Authority Over, or Advisory Relations With, Churches or Synods, or Both.

15-A - Consolidation of Incorporated Presbyteries.

15-B - Consolidation or Merger of Incorporated Presbyterian and Lutheran Synods.

16 - Property of Extinct Churches.

17 - Property of Extinct Free Baptist Churches.

17-A - Property of Extinct Seventh Day Baptist Churches and Seventh Day Baptist Religious Societies.

17-B - Property of Extinct Presbyterian Churches in Connection With the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (u.s.a.).

17-C - Property of Lutheran Congregations.

18 - Dissolution of Religious Corporations.

19 - Corporations for Organizing and Maintaining Mission Churches and Sunday Schools.

20 - Corporations for Acquiring Parsonages for District Superintendents and Camp-Meeting Grounds.

21 - Corporations for Acquiring Camp-Meeting Grounds for the Reformed Methodist Denomination.

21-A - Corporations for Acquiring Lands for Parsonage or Camp-Meeting Purposes for the Free Methodist Denomination.

22 - Establishing and Maintaining a Home for Aged Poor.

23 - Powers of Churches Created by Special Laws.

24 - Government of Churches Incorporated Prior to January First, Eighteen Hundred and Twenty-Eight.

25 - Pastoral Relation.

26 - Worship.

27 - Reservation as to Baptist Churches, Churches of the United Church of Christ and Congregational Christian Churches.

28 - Electronic Meetings.