New York Religious Corporations Law Article 8 - Churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian and Independent Churches

• 160 - Notice of Meeting for Incorporation.
  Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated church of the United Church of Christ or Independent church shall be given as...
• 161 - The Meeting for Incorporation.
  At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, the qualified voters, until otherwise decided as hereinafter provided, shall be all persons of...
• 162 - The Certificate of Incorporation.
  If the meeting shall decide that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding officer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall...
• 163 - Time, Place and Notice of Corporate Meetings.
  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 if...
• 164 - Organization and Conduct of Corporate Meetings; Qualifications of Voters.
  At every corporate meeting of a church to which this article is applicable the following persons, and no others shall be qualified voters, to wit:...
• 165 - Changing Date of Annual Corporate Meetings.
  An annual corporate meeting of any church incorporated under this article may change the date of its subsequent annual meetings. If the date fixed for...
• 166 - Changing Number of Trustees.
  Any such incorporated church may, at an annual corporate meeting, change the number of its trustees to three, six, nine, twelve or fifteen, classifying them...
• 167 - Meetings of Trustees.
  Meetings of the trustees of any such incorporated church shall be called by giving at least twenty-four hours' notice thereof personally or by mail to...
• 168 - 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...
• 169 - Limitation of Powers of Trustees.
  The trustees of any such incorporated church shall have no power to call, settle or remove a minister or to fix his salary, nor without...
• 170 - Election and Salary of Ministers.
  The ministers of any such church shall be called, settled or removed and their salaries fixed, only by the vote of a majority of the...
• 171 - Transfer of Property.
  Any incorporated church of the United Church of Christ and any incorporated Congregational Christian church which is a member of the New York Conference of...
• 172 - Application of This Article.
  This article applies only to churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian churches, whether or not part of the United Church of Christ,...

Last modified: February 3, 2019