New York Benevolent Orders Law Article 2 - General Provisions

  • 2 - Organization.
    Either of the following orders: 1. A lodge of Free and Accepted Masons duly chartered by and installed according to the general rules and regulations...
  • 3 - Powers.
    Such trustees or executive committee may take, hold and convey by and under the direction of such lodge, chapter, commandery, consistory, council, temple, grotto, post,...
  • 3-a - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
    A subordinate lodge, chapter, post, council, commandery, temple, court or other organization entitled to file a certificate of election of trustees under section two of...
  • 4 - Terms of Trustees.
    1. The persons first elected trustees of such lodge, chapter, commandery, consistory, council, temple or post, if a lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, or...
  • 5 - Powers of Trustees.
    1. Such trustees shall have the care, management and control of all the temporalities and property of the lodge, chapter, commandery, consistory, council, temple, grotto,...
  • 6 - Reorganization.
    Any such lodge, chapter, commandery, consistory, council, temple or post heretofore incorporated by the laws of this state, or thereby heretofore enabled to take and...
  • 7 - Joint Corporations.
    1. Any number of masonic bodies within the state, chartered by the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York,...
  • 7-a - Consolidation.
    Any two or more of the bodies enumerated in the preceding section, having the same parent governing body, organized under section two of this chapter...
  • 8 - Trustees.
    The persons executing such certificate and named therein, shall be the board of trustees of such corporation. If but two bodies unite to form such...
  • 9 - Powers of Joint Corporations.
    Such corporation may acquire real property in the town, village or city in which such hall, home, temple or building is or is to be...
  • 10 - Mortgaging Property.
    If the funds of the corporation shall not be sufficient to pay for any real property purchased by the board of trustees in pursuance of...
  • 11 - Reincorporation of Joint Corporations.
    A corporation heretofore organized, the members whereof represent lodges or bodies in any of the benevolent or fraternal orders mentioned or described in section seven...
  • 12 - Placing Minors by Adoption.
    Any corporation created under section seven of this act or reorganized under section eleven thereof, for the purpose of acquiring and maintaining a home for...
  • 13 - (Enacted Without Section Heading).
    Any corporation such as is described in the last preceding section, now having or which may hereafter have in its custody, a minor whose parents...
  • 14 - Changes of Purposes and Powers of Corporations Incorporated or Reincorporated Hereunder.
    1. Any corporation incorporated or reincorporated under this chapter may, within the authority conferred and the limitations imposed by sections seven and eight, extend, limit...

Last modified: February 3, 2019