ยง 23. Powers of churches created by special laws. If a church be
incorporated by special law, it and its trustees shall have, in addition
to the powers conferred on it by such law, all the powers and privileges
conferred on incorporated churches and the trustees thereof respectively
by the provisions of this article, and also all the powers and
privileges conferred by this chapter on churches of the same
denomination or of the like character, and on the trustees thereof
respectively.
Structure New York Laws
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.
7 - Acquisition of Property by Religious Corporations for Cemetery Purposes; Management Thereof.
7-A - Deeds for Cemetery Purposes; Presumption.
8-A - Reacquisition of a Lot, Plot or Part Thereof by a Cemetery.
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-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-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.
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.