New York Religious Corporations Law Article 19 - UNITARIAN AND UNIVERSALIST SOCIETIES

• 400 - Application of Article.
  1. This article applies to religious societies which are members of the Unitarian Universalist Association at the time of incorporation under this article. The term...
• 401 - Incorporation of an Unincorporated Society.
  Any five members of an unincorporated religious society, who are of full age, may call a meeting for the purpose of incorporating such society under...
• 402 - Meeting for Incorporation of Unincorporated Society.
  At a meeting for incorporation held pursuant to section four hundred one, the qualified voters, until otherwise decided as hereafter provided, shall be all persons...
• 403 - Certificate of Incorporation.
  (a) If the meeting held pursuant to section four hundred two shall decide that the unincorporated society shall become incorporated, the presiding officer of such...
• 404 - Formation of a New Society.
  Five or more persons of full age may form a corporation under this article by holding a meeting for incorporation in accordance with section four...
• 405 - Re-Incorporation of Existing Corporation.
  Any previously incorporated society, to which this article is applicable, may re-incorporate it under the provisions of this article by the same procedure set forth...
• 406 - Time, Place and Notice of Corporate Meetings.
  (a) The annual corporate meeting of every society incorporated under this article shall be held at the time and place fixed by its by-laws, or...
• 407 - Qualifications of Members and Voters.
  (a) Each person admitted to membership pursuant to the by-laws shall be a member of the corporation until his membership shall terminate by death, resignation...
• 408 - Trustees.
  (a) The society shall be administered by its trustees. The trustees shall be responsible to the members. (b) The by-laws shall provide for the term...
• 409 - Ministers.
  Any minister shall be called or removed and the salary fixed or changed by a vote of the majority of the members present and voting...
• 410 - By-Laws.
  (a) The initial by-laws of a society shall be adopted at the meeting for incorporation. By-laws may thereafter be amended, repealed or adopted as provided...
• 411 - Real Estate.
  (a) A society shall not sell or mortgage any of its real property without applying for and obtaining leave of the court therefor pursuant to...
• 412 - Merger and Consolidation.
  A. (a) Two or more societies incorporated under this article may enter into an agreement for consolidation or merger. No such agreement shall be valid...
• 413 - Dissolution.
  (a) Whenever two-thirds of the voting members of the society, present at a meeting called for that purpose, decide to dissolve the corporation, they may,...
• 414 - Amendment.
  A society may amend its certificate of incorporation at any time, provided that such amendment contains only such provisions as might be properly contained in...

Last modified: February 3, 2019