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N.Y. RCO Law § 132

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The certificate of incorporation

Official statutory text

§ 132. The certificate of incorporation. If the meeting shall decide\nthat such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding\nofficer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall execute\na certificate setting forth the name of the proposed corporation, the\nnumber of the trustees thereof, the names of the persons elected as\ntrustees and the terms of office for which they were respectively\nelected and the county and town, city or village in which its principal\nplace of worship is or is intended to be located. On the filing and\nrecording of such certificate after it shall have been acknowledged or\nproved as hereinbefore provided, the persons qualified to vote at such\nmeeting and those persons who shall thereafter, from time to time, be\nqualified voters at the corporate meetings thereof, shall be a\ncorporation by the name stated in such certificate, and the persons\ntherein stated to be elected trustees of such church shall be the\ntrustees thereof, for the terms for which they were respectively elected\nand until their respective successors shall be elected.\n

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