§ 336. Definitions. 1. The “Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America,” as that term is used anywhere in this article, refers to the churches, cathedrals, chapels, congregations, societies, parishes, committees and other religious organizations of the Eastern Orthodox Church which are subject to ecclesiastical and administrative jurisdiction and authority of the archbishop, or bishop, who […]
§ 337. Application for incorporation. Any number of persons of full age, not less than ten, who are communicants in canonical standing within the Eastern Orthodox Church may associate themselves for the purpose of founding and continuing a congregation acknowledging, conforming to and promoting the faith, doctrine, discipline, rite, canons, traditions, usages and constitution of […]
§ 338. Notice of a meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating a congregation, to which this article is applicable, shall be given as follows: 1. The notice shall be in writing and shall state in substance that a meeting of the members of such congregation will be held at […]
§ 339. The meeting for incorporation. 1. At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, the qualified voters, until otherwise decided as hereinafter provided, shall be all persons of full age, who are then members in good and regular standing of such congregation by admission into full communion and membership therewith, in […]
§ 340. Resolutions to be adopted at the meeting for incorporation. In order to incorporate under this article, the meeting shall adopt the following resolution by a majority of its qualified voters, present and voting, to wit: Whereas, this congregation was founded and established, and thereby a permanent trust was created, for the purpose and […]
§ 341. Certificate of incorporation. 1. If the meeting shall decide that such congregation shall become an incorporated church of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America, a certificate of incorporation therefor shall be executed and acknowledged by the archbishop, or bishop, who is administrator of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America, the rector […]
§ 342. Reincorporation of existing corporations. Any heretofore incorporated church, to which this article is applicable, may reincorporate under the provisions of this article by the same procedure hereinbefore set forth for incorporation substituting, at appropriate places, the word “reincorporate” for “incorporate” and filing the certificate of reincorporation in the office of the county clerk […]
§ 343. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings. 1. The annual corporate meeting of every church incorporated under this article shall be held at the time and place fixed by its by-laws, or if no time and place be so fixed, then at a time and place to be first fixed by its trustees, […]
§ 344. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters. 1. At a corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable, the following persons, and no others, shall be qualified voters, to wit: All persons who are then members in good and regular standing of such church by admission into […]
§ 345. Change of date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable may, by a majority vote of the duly qualified voters at such meeting, change the date of the annual meeting thereafter. If such date as so changed shall next thereafter occur less […]
§ 346. Changing number of laymen trustees. An incorporated church to which this article is applicable may, at its annual corporate meeting where trustees are elected, by a majority vote of the duly qualified voters at such meeting, change the number of its trustees by adding more trustees, one-third of which shall be elected for […]
§ 347. The powers and duties of trustees. 1. The trustees of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable shall have the custody and control of all the temporalities and property, real or personal, belonging to the corporation and of all the revenues therefrom and shall administer the same strictly in accordance with […]
§ 348. Meetings of trustees. 1. Meetings of the trustees of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable may be held at stated intervals, or shall be called by the chairman of the board of trustees on his own motion, or upon request of one of the clergymen trustees or any two of […]
§ 349. Vacancies among layman trustees. If any layman trustee of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable declines to act, resigns or dies, or ceases to be a qualified voter at a corporate meeting thereof, or has his trusteeship terminated by any other means, his office shall be vacant; and such vacancy […]
§ 350. Pastoral relations. The election, calling, settlement, installation, dismissal, removal, translation, constituting or dissolving of the pastoral relation, or fixing or changing of the salary of a minister, or taking any action for or toward any such purpose, and the calling and conduct of a meeting of any such church for any such purpose, […]
§ 351. 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 archbishop, or bishop, who is administrator of […]
§ 352. Property of extinct churches. The diocesan council of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America may decide that a church in connection with it or over which it has ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and to which this article is applicable, has become extinct, if it has failed for two consecutive years next prior thereto, to […]
