Statute · New York Religious Corporations Law
N.Y. Relig. Corp. Law § 291 — Application for incorporation
N.Y. Relig. Corp. Law § 291
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- Statute
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- New York Religious Corporations Law
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- New York
- Current through
- Nov 4, 2026 (NY Senate Open Legislation)
§ 291. Application for incorporation. An unincorporated congregation, church, parish or society may apply to the appropriate hierarch, bishop or administrator for permission to incorporate under this article.
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N.Y. Relig. Corp. Law § 291 — Application for incorporation is in force in the current edition of the Code, and nothing recorded condemns it.
§ 291. Application for incorporation. An unincorporated congregation, church, parish or society may apply to the appropriate hierarch, bishop or administrator for permission to incorporate under this article.
When such permission or sanction for incorporation has been given, in writing, over the seal and signature of the appropriate hierarch, bishop or administrator and has been certified by the secretariat of the Federated Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary Jurisdictions in America, it shall be attached to a certificate of incorporation; and said certificate shall be executed, acknowledged and filed, as hereinafter provided, and thereupon such congregation, parish, church, society or committee shall become a corporation under this article.