New York Religious Corporations Law Article 3-A - APOSTOLIC EPISCOPAL PARISHES OR CHURCHES

• 50 - Application for Incorporation.
  An unincorporated Apostolic Episcopal Church, or a congregation acknowledging the historic apostolic eastern confession and order in this state, may apply to the bishop who...
• 51 - Notice of Meeting for Incorporation.
  Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated Apostolic Episcopal Church, or congregation acknowledging the apostolic eastern confession and order, shall be...
• 52 - Provisions Governing Meetings 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...
• 53 - Resolution to Be Adopted At Incorporation Meeting.
  At such meeting held for the incorporation of such parish, church or congregation as an Apostolic Episcopal Church, by whatever corporate name said church shall...
• 54 - Certificate of Incorporation.
  1. If the meeting shall decide that such unincorporated church shall become an incorporated church or congregation of the Apostolic Episcopal Church, a certificate of...
• 55 - Annual and Special Corporate Meetings.
  1. The annual corporate meeting of every church or congregation incorporated under this article shall be held at the time and place fixed by its...
• 56 - Changing 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...
• 57 - Changing Number of Laymen Trustees.
  An incorporated church to which this article is applicable may, by a majority vote of the duly qualified voters at an annual corporate meeting, change...
• 58 - Meetings of Trustees.
  Meetings of the trustees of such incorporated church shall be called by giving at least three days' notice thereof in writing, served personally or by...
• 58-a - Vacancies Among Trustees.
  If any trustee of any such incorporated church declines to act, resigns or dies, or ceases to be a qualified voter at a corporate meeting...
• 59 - Rector; Vicar; Ministers; Their Appointment, Removal and Compensation.
  The rector or vicar or other ministers of any such church, by whatever title they are called in ecclesiastical language, shall be called, settled or...
• 59-a - Additional Qualifications of Voters At Annual and Special Corporate Meetings.
  Duly qualified voters at any annual or special corporate meeting of any such incorporated church shall be baptised persons, who have been admitted to the...
• 59-b - Transfer of Property of Extinct Parishes and Churches.
  The Metropolitan Synod Apostolic Episcopal Church may decide that a parish or church in connection with it or over which it has ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and...

Last modified: February 3, 2019