New York Laws
Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches.
225-E - Effect Upon Existing Corporations.

§ 225-e. Effect upon existing corporations. Every free Methodist
church heretofore incorporated in the state of New York shall, three
months after this article takes effect, automatically come under its
provisions, unless in the meantime it shall elect by a two-thirds vote
of all its members in full connection to remain under the provisions of
the general or special law applicable thereto at such time. A
certificate of such vote shall be filed in the office of the clerk of
the county in which the principal place of worship of such corporation
is located and shall be recorded by such clerk in the book in which
certificates of religious corporations are recorded pursuant to law.

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