N.Y. Religious Corporations Law Section 470
Application

1.

This article applies to any unincorporated church affiliated with the Sikh faith, and to any heretofore incorporated church or body, so affiliated, which desires to reincorporate pursuant to this article. Independent churches may incorporate or reincorporate under this article in the manner provided in sections four hundred seventy-one and four hundred seventy-seven of this article, and all the provisions of this article shall apply to such churches as the context requires.

2.

Nothing hereinafter provided shall prevent or prohibit any heretofore incorporated church or body, affiliated with the Sikh faith from maintaining and continuing the relationship which such church or body enjoyed at the time of the effective date of this article should such church or body determine not to reincorporate pursuant to this article.

Source: Section 470 — Application, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/RCO/470 (updated Nov. 27, 2015; accessed Jul. 4, 2026).

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