New York Religious Corporations Law Article 11-A - FREE METHODIST CHURCHES.

• 225 - Application of This Article.
  This article applies only to churches, societies, districts, conferences, and such other authorized religious organizations of the Free Methodist Church of North America as are...
• 225-a - Organization of a Free Methodist Church.
  It shall be lawful for any number of persons, not less than six, with the consent of the district superintendent of the district in which...
• 225-b - Meeting for Incorporation.
  1. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated free Methodist church shall be in writing and shall state in substance, that...
• 225-c - Certificate of Incorporation.
  1. The presiding officer of such a meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat shall be appointed by such meeting to...
• 225-d - Amendment of Articles of Incorporation.
  1. It shall be lawful for any incorporated church coming under the provisions of this article, by a two-thirds vote of the members present and...
• 225-e - Effect Upon Existing Corporations.
  Every free Methodist church heretofore incorporated in the state of New York shall, three months after this article takes effect, automatically come under its provisions,...
• 225-f - Annual Election of Trustees.
  1. Trustees of an incorporated free Methodist church shall be elected at the annual society meeting held within three months prior to the session of...
• 225-g - Changing Number of Trustees.
  An incorporated church may, at its annual meeting where trustees are elected, by vote change the number of its trustees to three, six or nine...
• 225-h - Vacancies in Board of Trustees.
  If any trustee of such incorporated church declines to act, resigns or dies; or, having been a member of such church, ceases to be a...
• 225-i - Trustee Meetings.
  1. Meetings of the trustees of an incorporated free Methodist church shall be called by giving at least forty-eight hours' notice thereof personally or by...
• 225-j - Powers of Incorporated Societies.
  1. An incorporated free Methodist church may, under restrictions hereinafter provided, sell, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of or encumber its real estate, but not for...
• 225-k - Powers and Duties of the Trustees.
  1. The trustees shall have the custody of all the temporalities and property, real and personal, belonging to the corporation and of the revenues therefrom,...
• 225-l - Conveyance of Property.
  Whenever it may become necessary or advisable to mortgage or dispose of any church property, the trustees may mortgage or sell and convey the same...
• 225-m - Property of Extinct Churches.
  1. Any incorporated annual conference or other governing body of the free Methodist church may decide that a church society in connection with it or...
• 225-n - Corporations for Acquiring Property for Special Religious Purposes.
  1. An annual conference, a district quarterly conference, a circuit consisting of two or more organized churches or any other regularly organized free Methodist body...
• 225-o - Saving Clause.
  Article ten of this chapter is not applicable to corporations of the free Methodist church incorporated under the provisions of this article.

Last modified: February 3, 2019