ยง 4. Property of unincorporated society transferred by its
incorporation. All the temporalities and property of an unincorporated
church, or of any unincorporated religious society, body, association or
congregation, shall, on the incorporation thereof, become the
temporalities and property of such corporation, whether such
temporalities or property be given, granted or devised directly to such
unincorporated church, society, body, association or congregation, or to
any other person for the use or benefit thereof.
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.