Laws of New York (Last Updated: November 21, 2014) |
RCO Religious Corporations |
Article 2. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
Section 3. Filing and recording certificates of incorporation of religious corporations |
Section 4. Property of unincorporated society transferred by its incorporation |
Section 4-A. Age qualifications of voters |
Section 5. General powers and duties of trustees of religious corporations |
Section 5-A. Investment of funds |
Section 6. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for branch institutions; establishment, maintenance and management thereof |
Section 7. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for cemetery purposes; management thereof |
Section 7-A. Deeds for cemetery purposes; presumption |
Section 8. Lot owners' rights |
Section 9. Removal of human remains from one cemetery of a religious corporation to another cemetery owned by it |
Section 10. Acquisition of property by two or more religious corporations for a common parsonage |
Section 11. Correction and confirmation of conveyances to religious corporations |
Section 12. Sale, mortgage and lease of real property of religious corporations |
Section 13. Consolidation of incorporated churches |
Section 14. Judicial investigation of amount of property of religious corporations |
Section 15. Corporations with governing authority over, or advisory relations with, churches or synods, or both |
Section 15-A. Consolidation of incorporated presbyteries |
Section 15-B. Consolidation or merger of incorporated Presbyterian and Lutheran synods |
Section 16. Property of extinct churches |
Section 17. Property of extinct Free Baptist churches |
Section 17-A. Property of extinct Seventh Day Baptist churches and Seventh Day Baptist religious societies |
Section 17-B. Property of extinct Presbyterian churches in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U |
Section 17-C. Property of Lutheran congregations |
Section 18. Dissolution of religious corporations |
Section 19. Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and Sunday schools |
Section 20. Corporations for acquiring parsonages for district superintendents and camp-meeting grounds |
Section 21. Corporations for acquiring camp-meeting grounds for the Reformed Methodist denomination |
Section 21-A. Corporations for acquiring lands for parsonage or camp-meeting purposes for the Free Methodist denomination |
Section 22. Establishing and maintaining a home for aged poor |
Section 23. Powers of churches created by special laws |
Section 24. Government of churches incorporated prior to January first, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight |
Section 25. Pastoral relation |
Section 26. Worship |
Section 27. Reservation as to Baptist churches, churches of the United Church of Christ and Congregational Christian churches |