N.Y.
Religious Corporations Law Section 293
Provisions governing meetings for incorporation and resolutions to be adopted thereat
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At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, qualified voters shall be those qualified under the by-laws of such unincorporated church, congregation, parish, society or committee, or in the absence of such by-laws, the persons qualified to vote in parish meetings in accordance with the rules and regulations or general usages of that jurisdiction of the Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church to which the proposed corporation is to adhere.2.
The meeting shall be called to order by the priest in charge of the parish, congregation, society, or committee or, in his absence, by one of the signers of the notice and shall elect the customarily required officers to conduct the meeting. 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, parish, church, society or committee) was founded and established, and thereby a permanent trust was created, for the purpose and intent of adhering to, maintaining and promoting religious worship and teaching according to the communion, doctrine, discipline, rite, canon law, traditions and usages of the Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church; and WHEREAS, such purpose and intent and the trust thereby created can be fully effected and safeguarded only in complete canonical unity with Orthodox jurisdictions and in obedience to Orthodox Greek Catholic bishops acknowledged and certified by the Federated Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary Jurisdictions in America; and WHEREAS, the signers hereof are the trustees, duly elected as such at a meeting duly held on the ............. day of ........ , nineteen hundred ..... , in accordance with article fifteen of the religious corporations law; and WHEREAS, by a majority vote the said meeting has determined to incorporate under said article as a (parish, society or committee) of the Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church under the name of .............................. (here give the corporate name by which such church, society or committee is to be known); and WHEREAS, permission and sanction for such incorporation has been given and certified in accordance with the provisions of said article by .............................. (here name the appropriate hierarch, bishop or administrator) to whose jurisdiction and authority this corporation shall adhere, Therefore it is hereby RESOLVED, that this (congregation, parish, church, society or committee) shall become and remain an incorporated (parish, society or committee) of the aforesaid jurisdiction in full unity of communion, faith and discipline with the Federated Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary Jurisdictions in America.
Source:
Section 293 — Provisions governing meetings for incorporation and resolutions to be adopted thereat, https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/RCO/293 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 13, 2024).
