§ 40. Meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated Protestant Episcopal parish or congregation, and of electing the first churchwardens and vestrymen thereof, shall specify the object, time and place of such meeting, and shall be made public for at least two weeks prior to such meeting, either […]
§ 41. Certificate of incorporation. If such meeting shall decide in favor of incorporation and comply with the next preceding section, the presiding officer of such meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat, shall execute and acknowledge a certificate of incorporation setting forth: 1. The fact of the calling and holding […]
§ 42. Corporate trustees, vestry; powers and duties thereof. No meeting of the vestry or trustees of any incorporated Protestant Episcopal parish or church shall be held unless either all the members thereof are present, or three days’ notice thereof shall be given to each member thereof, by the rector in writing either personally or […]
§ 42-a. Additional powers of the corporate trustees and vestry. Notwithstanding and in addition to the provisions of section five of this chapter, and subject always to the trust in which all real and personal property is held for the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Diocese thereof in which the parish, mission or congregation is […]
§ 43. Annual election and special meetings of incorporated Protestant Episcopal parishes. 1. The annual election of a Protestant Episcopal parish, hereafter incorporated, shall be held on the day, either a Sunday or a secular day, designated in its certificate of incorporation. 2. The annual election of an incorporated Protestant Episcopal parish or church heretofore […]
§ 44. Changing the number of vestrymen of Protestant Episcopal parishes hereafter incorporated. If the vestry of a Protestant Episcopal parish, hereafter incorporated, shall, by resolution, recommend that the number of vestrymen of such parish be changed to either three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four vestrymen, notice of such recommendation shall be […]
§ 45. Changing date of annual election, number and terms of office of vestrymen and terms of office of churchwardens in Protestant Episcopal churches heretofore incorporated. If the vestry of a Protestant Episcopal parish, heretofore incorporated, shall by resolution, recommend that the date of the annual election be changed to another day, either a Sunday […]
§ 46. Changing the qualifications of voters and the qualifications of wardens and vestrymen. If the vestry of a Protestant Episcopal parish heretofore incorporated shall by resolution recommend that the qualifications of voters and the qualifications of wardens and vestrymen be changed to conform in both cases to the requirements of section forty-three of this […]
§ 47. Free churches in communion with the Protestant Episcopal church. Whenever the trustees of any free church in communion with the Protestant Episcopal church heretofore or hereafter organized under the provisions of article nine of this act shall desire to change the management of its affairs and the form of government of the corporation […]
§ 48. Legacies. Any devise or bequest of real or personal property to an unincorporated parish, mission, congregation, chapel or religious society under the jurisdiction of or in communion with the Protestant Episcopal Church, for the purposes of such gift, may be taken, held and administered for the benefit of such devisee or legatee by […]
§ 49. Eligibility of certain minors as lay delegates and to vote and hold office. Whenever the constitution or canons of a diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church in the state of New York so permits, persons of less than full age but of the age of eighteen years or more shall be eligible to […]
