New York Religious Corporations Law Article 17 - METHODIST CHURCHES

• 320 - Application of Article.
  This article applies only to Methodist churches and to affiliated and subsidiary organizations.
• 321 - Change of Name of Churches and Affiliated and Subsidiary Organizations.
  1. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or of any general, special or local law, the three denominations formerly known as the Methodist Episcopal Church,...
• 321-a - Use of Certain Names by Religious Corporations.
  1. Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter or of any general, special or local law, the two denominations formerly known as The Methodist Church and...
• 322 - Meeting for Incorporation.
  1. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated United Methodist church shall be in writing and shall state in substance, that...
• 323 - Certificate of Incorporation.
  The presiding officer of such a meeting and at least two other persons present and voting thereat shall be appointed at such a meeting to...
• 324 - Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation.
  It shall be lawful for any incorporated United Methodist church, by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting at a regularly called meeting...
• 325 - Corporate Meetings.
  1. The trustees of an incorporated United Methodist church shall be elected at the annual corporate meeting which shall be held at the time and...
• 326 - Changing Number of Trustees.
  An incorporated United Methodist church may, at its annual corporate meeting where trustees are elected, by vote change the number of its trustees to three,...
• 327 - Vacancies in Board of Trustees.
  If any trustee of such incorporated United Methodist church declines to act, resigns, dies, or has his trusteeship terminated by any other means, his office...
• 328 - Meetings of Trustees.
  Meetings of the trustees of an incorporated United Methodist church may be held at stated intervals or may be called by giving at least twenty-four...
• 329 - Change of Date of Annual Corporate Meetings.
  An annual corporate meeting of an incorporated United Methodist church may change the date of its annual meeting thereafter. If such a date shall next...
• 330 - Powers and Duties of Trustees.
  1. The trustees of an incorporated United Methodist church shall have the custody and control of all the temporalities and property belonging to the corporation...
• 331 - Control of Trustees by Corporate Meetings.
  A corporate meeting of an incorporated United Methodist church, whose trustees are elective as such, may give directions, not inconsistent with law or with the...
• 332 - Conveyance of Property.
  The trustees of an incorporated United Methodist church may sell, mortgage, lease or convey church property by following the provisions of section twelve of article...
• 333 - Conveyance of Property for Church, School or Missionary Purposes.
  Any church or society of The United Methodist Church created by or existing under the laws of the state of New York, having its principal...
• 334 - Bequests.
  Any bequest of real or personal property to an unincorporated United Methodist church may be taken and held by the incorporated annual conference which has...
• 335 - Powers of Certain Existing Corporations to Conform Charter to Article.
  A corporation heretofore created in this state by special act or under general law for purposes for which a corporation may be created under this...

Last modified: February 3, 2019