Section 403. Certificate of incorporation  


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  • (a) If the meeting held pursuant
      to section four hundred two shall decide that the unincorporated society
      shall become incorporated, the presiding officer of such meeting and the
      two  inspectors  of  election  shall  execute  a  certificate   entitled
      "Certificate  of  Incorporation  pursuant  to  article  nineteen  of the
      Religious Corporations Law."  This certificate shall state:
        (1) the name of the proposed corporation,
        (2) a statement that it is a  member  of  the  Unitarian  Universalist
      Association,
        (3)  the  number  of  trustees  thereof or that the number of trustees
      shall not be less than a stated minimum nor more than a stated maximum,
        (4) the names and residences of the trustees until  the  first  annual
      meeting,
        (5)  the  terms  of  office  for  which the trustees were respectively
      elected,
        (6) the county, town, city or village in which the principal place  of
      worship or office is or is intended to be located.
        (b)  On  the  filing  and  recording  of  such certificate the persons
      qualified to vote at such meeting and those persons who shall thereafter
      from time to time be qualified voters at the corporate meetings  thereof
      shall  be  a  corporation by the name stated in such certificate and the
      persons therein stated to be elected trustees of such society  shall  be
      the  trustees  thereof  for  the  terms for which they were respectively
      elected and until their respective successors shall be elected.