§ 10. Acquisition of property by two or more religious corporations for a common parsonage. Two or more religious corporations may acquire such real property as may be necessary for use as a parsonage, and the right, title and interest of each corporation therein shall be in proportion to its contribution to the cost of […]
§ 11. Correction and confirmation of conveyances to religious corporations. If, in a conveyance of real property, or in any instrument intended to operate as such, heretofore or hereafter made to a religious corporation, its corporate name is not stated or is not correctly stated, but such conveyance or instrument indicates the intention of the […]
§ 12. Sale, mortgage and lease of real property of religious corporations. 1. A religious corporation shall not sell, mortgage or lease for a term exceeding five years any of its real property without applying for and obtaining leave of the court or the attorney general therefor pursuant to section five hundred eleven of the […]
§ 13. Consolidation or merger of incorporated churches. Two or more incorporated churches may enter into an agreement, under their respective corporate seals, for the consolidation or merger of such corporations, setting forth the name of the proposed new corporation or surviving corporation, the denomination, if any, to which it is to belong, and if […]
§ 14. Judicial investigation of amount of property of religious corporations. The supreme court at a special term, held in the judicial district in which the principal place of worship or of holding corporate meetings of a religious corporation is situated, may require such corporation to make and file an inventory of its property, verified […]
§ 15. Corporations with governing authority over, or advisory relations with, churches or synods, or both. 1. An unincorporated diocesan convention, presbytery, classes, synod unless otherwise provided, annual or biennial conference or convention, or other governing or advisory body having jurisdiction over or relations with several or a number of churches or synods, or synods […]
§ 15-a. Consolidation of incorporated presbyteries. 1. Two or more incorporated presbyteries may enter into an agreement for the consolidation or merger of such corporations and such corporations may be consolidated or merged so as to form a single corporation which may be either a new corporation or one of the constituent corporations. Said agreement […]
§ 15-b. Consolidation or merger of incorporated Presbyterian and Lutheran synods. 1. (a) Presbyterian. One or more foreign religious synods and one or more domestic religious synods may merge into a single religious corporation of this state, which shall be one of the constituent corporations or may consolidate into a single religious corporation of this […]
§ 16. Property of extinct churches. Such incorporated governing body may decide that a church, parish or 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 service according to the discipline, customs and usages of […]
§ 17. Property of extinct Free Baptist churches. The property both real and personal, belonging to or held in trust for any Free Baptist church, or Free Baptist religious society organized under the laws of the state of New York, that has become, or shall become extinct, shall vest in and become the property of […]
§ 17-a. Property of extinct Seventh Day Baptist churches and Seventh Day Baptist religious societies. 1. All property, both personal and real, belonging to or held in trust for any Seventh Day Baptist church or any Seventh Day Baptist religious society that has or shall become extinct shall vest in and become the property of […]
§ 17-b. Property of extinct Presbyterian churches in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Whenever the presbytery having jurisdiction over a particular church in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) dissolves or declares extinct the particular church, upon petition by the presbytery to the supreme or county […]
§ 17-c. Property of Lutheran congregations. 1. Congregations of the Lutheran Church in America. The synod having jurisdiction over a particular congregation of the Lutheran Church in America, may declare defunct any congregation, belonging to the synod, which has disbanded, or has ceased or failed to maintain religious worship or services according to the tenets […]
§ 18. Dissolution of religious corporations. Whenever any religious corporation shall cease to act in its corporate capacity and keep up the religious services; it shall be lawful for the supreme court of this state, upon the application of a majority of the trustees thereof, in case said court shall deem it proper so to […]
§ 19. Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and Sunday schools. Ten or more members of two or more incorporated churches may become a corporation for the purpose of organizing and maintaining mission churches and Sunday schools, and of acquiring property therefor, by executing a certificate stating the name of such corporation, the city […]
§ 20. Corporations for acquiring parsonages for district superintendents and camp-meeting grounds. The district superintendent and a majority of the district stewards residing within a district erected by an annual conference of The United Methodist Church, may become incorporated for the purposes of acquiring, maintaining and improving real property to be used either as a […]
§ 21. Corporations for acquiring camp-meeting grounds for the Reformed Methodist denomination. The visiting elder of a visiting elder’s district, erected by an annual conference of the Reformed Methodist denomination, and three members or more in good and regular standing of three or more churches of such denomination, may become incorporated for the purposes of […]
§ 21-a. Corporations for acquiring lands for parsonage or camp-meeting purposes for the Free Methodist denomination. The district elder and a majority of the stewards residing in the district elder’s district, elected by an annual conference of the Free Methodist Church denomination, may become incorporated, for the purpose of acquiring, maintaining and improving real property, […]
§ 22. Establishing and maintaining a home for aged poor. An incorporated church or congregation in this state, either by itself or in conjunction with other incorporated churches or congregations, shall have power to establish and maintain by its or their trustees or other officers, as part of its or their regular church and charitable […]
§ 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 […]
