Section 190. Application of this article  


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  • This article is not applicable to
      a  Baptist  church,  a Congregational Christian church, whether or not a
      part of the United Church of Christ, a church of the  United  Church  of
      Christ incorporated after September first, nineteen hundred seventy-one,
      an Independent church, a United Methodist church, a Protestant Episcopal
      church,  a  Roman  Catholic  church, a Presbyterian church in connection
      with the General Assembly of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United
      States  of  America, a Christian Orthodox Catholic church of the Eastern
      Confession, a Ruthenian Greek Catholic church, or a  Church  of  Christ,
      Scientist.  No  provision  of  this  article is applicable to a reformed
      church in America, a True Reformed Dutch church in the United States  of
      America,  a  Reformed Presbyterian church, or to an Evangelical Lutheran
      church,  incorporated  after  October  first,   eighteen   hundred   and
      ninety-five,  except  as  declared to be so applicable by article six of
      this chapter; this article is  applicable  to  an  Evangelical  Lutheran
      church  incorporated before October first, eighteen hundred ninety-five,
      if the trustees thereof were then elective as such and so long  as  they
      continue  to  be  elective  as  such.  Article  six  of  this chapter is
      applicable to an Evangelical Lutheran church incorporated before October
      first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, if its trustees were  not  then
      elective as such and so long as its trustees continue not to be elective
      as   such.   This  article  is  applicable  to  churches  of  all  other
      denominations.