New York Religious Corporations Law Article 18 - CHURCHES OF THE BYELORUSSIAN AUTOCEPHALIC ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA

• 336 - Definitions.
  1. The "Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America," as that term is used anywhere in this article, refers to the churches, cathedrals, chapels, congregations, societies,...
• 337 - Application for Incorporation.
  Any number of persons of full age, not less than ten, who are communicants in canonical standing within the Eastern Orthodox Church may associate themselves...
• 338 - Notice of a Meeting for Incorporation.
  Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating a congregation, to which this article is applicable, shall be given as follows: 1. The notice...
• 339 - The Meeting for Incorporation.
  1. At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, the qualified voters, until otherwise decided as hereinafter provided, shall be all persons...
• 340 - Resolutions to Be Adopted At the Meeting for Incorporation.
  In order to incorporate under this article, the meeting shall adopt the following resolution by a majority of its qualified voters, present and voting, to...
• 341 - Certificate of Incorporation.
  1. If the meeting shall decide that such congregation shall become an incorporated church of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America, a certificate of...
• 342 - Reincorporation of Existing Corporations.
  Any heretofore incorporated church, to which this article is applicable, may reincorporate under the provisions of this article by the same procedure hereinbefore set forth...
• 343 - Time, Place and Notice of Corporate Meetings.
  1. The annual corporate meeting of every church incorporated under this article shall be held at the time and place fixed by its by-laws, or...
• 344 - Organization and Conduct of Corporate Meetings; Qualifications of Voters.
  1. At a corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable, the following persons, and no others, shall be qualified voters,...
• 345 - Change of Date of Annual Corporate Meetings.
  An annual corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable may, by a majority vote of the duly qualified voters at...
• 346 - Changing Number of Laymen Trustees.
  An incorporated church to which this article is applicable may, at its annual corporate meeting where trustees are elected, by a majority vote of the...
• 347 - The Powers and Duties of Trustees.
  1. The trustees of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable shall have the custody and control of all the temporalities and property,...
• 348 - Meetings of Trustees.
  1. Meetings of the trustees of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable may be held at stated intervals, or shall be called...
• 349 - Vacancies Among Layman Trustees.
  If any layman trustee of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable declines to act, resigns or dies, or ceases to be a...
• 350 - Pastoral Relations.
  The election, calling, settlement, installation, dismissal, removal, translation, constituting or dissolving of the pastoral relation, or fixing or changing of the salary of a minister,...
• 351 - 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...
• 352 - Property of Extinct Churches.
  The diocesan council of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America may decide that a church in connection with it or over which it has...

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