Section 426. Certificate of incorporation  


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  • 1.  If  at  the  meeting for
      incorporation it shall be decided that such unincorporated church  shall
      become  incorporated,  the presiding officer of such meeting and the two
      inspectors of election shall execute and acknowledge  a  certificate  of
      incorporation,  in which shall be stated the name or title by which such
      body shall be known in the law; the purpose  of  its  organization;  the
      names  and  addresses  of  the trustees elected thereat and the terms of
      office for which they were respectively elected;  the  county,  town  or
      city  in  which  its  principal place of worship is or is intended to be
      located; and a statement that the corporation shall support the doctrine
      and be subject to the constitution and by-laws of and be  in  conformity
      with  the principles of the general council of the Assemblies of God and
      the New York district of the Assemblies of God  as  from  time  to  time
      established,  made  and declared by the lawful authority of said general
      council of the Assemblies of God and New York district of the Assemblies
      of God.
        2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the
      county in which such corporate body is or is  intended  to  be  located,
      such church shall be a corporation by the name stated in the certificate
      of  incorporation; but such certificate shall not be filed, unless there
      is affixed thereto the written permission of the New  York  district  of
      the  Assemblies  of God to incorporate, pursuant to section four hundred
      twenty-two of this article.
        3. The certificate of incorporation shall further contain a  provision
      that,  in the event of dissolution of the corporation, all the remaining
      assets and property of the corporation shall, after  necessary  expenses
      thereof,  be  distributed  to  either  the  New  York  district  of  the
      Assemblies of God, or to the general council of the Assemblies  of  God,
      their  successors  and  assigns,  and  that  in  the event said New York
      district of the Assemblies of God or general council of  the  Assemblies
      of  God  or  if  their  successor  is  not  in  existence at the time of
      dissolution, then such assets  are  to  be  distributed  to  such  other
      Assemblies  of  God organizations as shall qualify under section 501 (c)
      (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, to be used in such
      manner as in the judgment of a justice of the supreme court  shall  best
      accomplish the general purposes for which the corporation was formed.