§ 225. Application of this article. This article applies only to churches, societies, districts, conferences, and such other authorized religious organizations of the Free Methodist Church of North America as are or shall be situated in the state of New York.
§ 225-a. Organization of a free Methodist church. It shall be lawful for any number of persons, not less than six, with the consent of the district superintendent of the district in which the proposed church is to be located, to organize a free Methodist church and to procure its incorporation. Said church, when so […]
§ 225-b. Meeting for incorporation. 1. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated free Methodist church shall be in writing and shall state in substance, that a meeting of such unincorporated church will be held at its usual place of worship at a specified day and hour, for the purpose of […]
§ 225-c. Certificate of incorporation. 1. The presiding officer of such a meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat shall be appointed by such meeting to execute and acknowledge, before any person authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds, a certificate of incorporation whereby they shall agree to be governed by the […]
§ 225-d. Amendment of articles of incorporation. 1. It shall be lawful for any incorporated church coming under the provisions of this article, by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting at a regularly called society meeting, to alter or amend its articles of incorporation in any manner not inconsistent with the provisions […]
§ 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 […]
§ 225-f. Annual election of trustees. 1. Trustees of an incorporated free Methodist church shall be elected at the annual society meeting held within three months prior to the session of the annual conference to which the society belongs. Notice of such meeting shall be publicly announced at a regular meeting of such incorporated church […]
§ 225-g. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated church may, at its annual meeting where trustees are elected, by vote change the number of its trustees to three, six or nine by adding more trustees, one-third of which shall be elected for three years, one-third for two years, and one-third for one year; or by […]
§ 225-h. Vacancies in board of trustees. If any trustee of such incorporated church declines to act, resigns or dies; or, having been a member of such church, ceases to be a member; or removes beyond the bounds of the circuit in which he is elected, his office shall be vacant and a special corporate […]
§ 225-i. Trustee meetings. 1. Meetings of the trustees of an incorporated free Methodist church shall be called by giving at least forty-eight hours’ notice thereof personally or by mail to all the trustees, and such notice may be given by the pastor, the secretary of the board of trustees or by any two of […]
§ 225-j. Powers of incorporated societies. 1. An incorporated free Methodist church may, under restrictions hereinafter provided, sell, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of or encumber its real estate, but not for current expenses. 2. Said corporation shall at all times permit such ministers belonging to the free Methodist church as shall from time to time […]
§ 225-k. Powers and duties of the trustees. 1. The trustees shall have the custody of all the temporalities and property, real and personal, belonging to the corporation and of the revenues therefrom, and shall administer the same in accordance with the discipline, rules and usages of the corporation and of the Free Methodist Church […]
§ 225-l. Conveyance of property. Whenever it may become necessary or advisable to mortgage or dispose of any church property, the trustees may mortgage or sell and convey the same by first securing the authority of the society for such sale or mortgage and the approval of the district superintendent of the district in which […]
§ 225-m. Property of extinct churches. 1. Any incorporated annual conference or other governing body of the free Methodist church may decide that a church society in connection with it or over which it has ecclesiastical jurisdiction, has become extinct, if it has failed for two consecutive years next prior thereto, to maintain religious services […]
§ 225-n. Corporations for acquiring property for special religious purposes. 1. An annual conference, a district quarterly conference, a circuit consisting of two or more organized churches or any other regularly organized free Methodist body may incorporate for the purpose of carrying on special religious enterprises. Notice of such intention shall be signed by at […]
§ 225-o. Saving clause. Article ten of this chapter is not applicable to corporations of the free Methodist church incorporated under the provisions of this article.
