Section 293. Provisions governing meetings for incorporation and resolutions to be adopted thereat  


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  • 1.  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.