Section 340. Resolutions to be adopted at the meeting for incorporation  


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  • 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 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 Byelorussian Autocephalic 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
      jurisdictions and in obedience to bishops acknowledged and certified  by
      the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America; and
        Whereas, the signors thereof are the trustees, duly elected as such at
      a  meeting  duly  held  on the ............ day of .......... , nineteen
      hundred  ..........  ,  in  accordance  with  article  eighteen  of  the
      religious corporations law; and
        Whereas,  by  a  majority  vote  the  said  meeting  has determined to
      incorporate as a Church of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church
      in America under the name of (here give the corporate name by which such
      church 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  archbishop,  bishop  or  administrator)  to  whose
      jurisdiction and authority this corporation shall adhere.
        Therefore  it  is hereby resolved, that this congregation shall become
      and remain an incorporated church of the aforesaid jurisdiction in  full
      unity   of   communion,  faith  and  discipline  with  the  Byelorussian
      Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America and that the clergymen  trustees
      of  this  said  church  shall  be  the archbishop, or bishop, who is the
      administrator  of  the  Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church  in
      America and rector of this church, and their successors in office, shall
      by  virtue  of  their offices, be the clergymen trustees of this church,
      which said two officers together, with the  ..........  laymen  trustees
      elected  at  this  incorporation  meeting, shall constitute the trustees
      thereof. Said clergymen trustees' term of office  shall  continue  until
      their   successors   in   said  office  are  elected  by  the  governing
      ecclesiastical body of the Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church,
      and said laymen trustees' term of office shall be that fixed by statute.