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

• 40 - Meeting for Incorporation.
  Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated Protestant Episcopal parish or congregation, and of electing the first churchwardens and vestrymen thereof,...
• 41 - Certificate of Incorporation.
  If such meeting shall decide in favor of incorporation and comply with the next preceding section, the presiding officer of such meeting and at least...
• 42 - Corporate Trustees, Vestry; Powers and Duties Thereof.
  No meeting of the vestry or trustees of any incorporated Protestant Episcopal parish or church shall be held unless either all the members thereof are...
• 42-a - Additional Powers of the Corporate Trustees and Vestry.
  Notwithstanding and in addition to the provisions of section five of this chapter, and subject always to the trust in which all real and personal...
• 43 - Annual Election and Special Meetings of Incorporated Protestant Episcopal Parishes.
  1. The annual election of a Protestant Episcopal parish, hereafter incorporated, shall be held on the day, either a Sunday or a secular day, designated...
• 44 - Changing the Number of Vestrymen of Protestant Episcopal Parishes Hereafter Incorporated.
  If the vestry of a Protestant Episcopal parish, hereafter incorporated, shall, by resolution, recommend that the number of vestrymen of such parish be changed to...
• 45 - Changing Date of Annual Election, Number and Terms of Office of Vestrymen and Terms of Office of Churchwardens in Protestant Episcopal Churches Hereto
  45. Changing date of annual election, number and terms of office of vestrymen and terms of office of churchwardens in Protestant Episcopal churches heretofore incorporated....
• 46 - Changing the Qualifications of Voters and the Qualifications of Wardens and Vestrymen.
  If the vestry of a Protestant Episcopal parish heretofore incorporated shall by resolution recommend that the qualifications of voters and the qualifications of wardens and...
• 47 - Free Churches in Communion With the Protestant Episcopal Church.
  Whenever the trustees of any free church in communion with the Protestant Episcopal church heretofore or hereafter organized under the provisions of article nine of...
• 48 - Legacies.
  Any devise or bequest of real or personal property to an unincorporated parish, mission, congregation, chapel or religious society under the jurisdiction of or in...
• 49 - Eligibility of Certain Minors As Lay Delegates and to Vote and Hold Office.
  Whenever the constitution or canons of a diocese of the Protestant Episcopal church in the state of New York so permits, persons of less than...

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