Section 112. Incorporation of Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Evangelical Lutheran churches under this article  


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  • If any  unincorporated  church  in  connection  with  the  Reformed  church in America, the true
      Reformed Dutch church in the United  States  of  America,  the  Reformed
      Presbyterian  church, or with the Evangelical Lutheran church, determine
      to incorporate in pursuance of this article, the minister  or  ministers
      and  the elders and deacons thereof shall execute, acknowledge and cause
      to be filed and recorded, a certificate in pursuance  of  this  article.
      The  deacons  of  a  Reformed  Presbyterian  church  may alone sign such
      certificate if authorized so to do by such church. Such  certificate  of
      incorporation  shall  state  the  name  of the proposed corporation, the
      county and town, city or village where its principal place of worship is
      or is intended to be located, and, if  it  be  an  Evangelical  Lutheran
      church,  the fact that a meeting of such church duly called decided that
      it be incorporated under this article.  If it be signed by  the  deacons
      of  a  Reformed  Presbyterian  church,  it  shall  state  that they were
      authorized so to do by such church.  On  filing  such  certificate  such
      church  shall  be  a  corporation  by  the  name stated therein, and the
      minister or ministers, if any, and the elders and deacons of such church
      shall by virtue of their offices be the trustees  of  such  corporation,
      except  that if it be a Reformed Presbyterian church, the certificate of
      incorporation of which shall have been, in pursuance of law,  signed  by
      its  deacons  only, the deacons of such church shall, by virtue of their
      offices, be the trustees of such corporation.