New York Laws
Article 17 - Methodist Churches
323 - Certificate of Incorporation.

§ 323. Certificate of incorporation. The presiding officer of such a
meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat shall
be appointed at such a meeting to execute and acknowledge, before any
person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate of
incorporation which shall have been submitted to and approved by such
meeting. Such certificate shall set forth: the place and date of said
meeting for incorporation; the name of said church; the township,
village or city, and the county in which said church shall be located;
the statement that there were six or more qualified voters present at
the meeting where this act of incorporation was authorized; the names
and respective periods of office of the trustees elected; the signatures
and residences of those authorized to execute and acknowledge the
certificate of incorporation; the approval of the district
superintendent of the district in which the church is located; and a
statement that the corporation shall support the doctrine and shall be
subject to the laws, usages and ministerial appointments of The United
Methodist Church as from time to time established, made and declared by
the lawful authority of said church. On the filing of such certificate
in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such church
shall be located the members of such church qualified to vote at such
meeting and those who shall thereafter, from time to time, be qualified
voters, at the corporate meetings thereof, shall be a corporation by the
name stated in such certificate, and the persons therein stated to be
elected trustees of such church shall be the trustees thereof, for the
terms for which they were respectively elected, and until their
successors are elected.