New York § 19 Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and Sunday schools

New York Statutes

§ 19 — Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and Sunday schools

New York § 19

Law RCOReligious Corporations

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N.Y. Religious Corporations § 19 (2026).

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  § 19. Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and\nSunday schools. Ten or more members of two or more incorporated churches\nmay become a corporation for the purpose of organizing and maintaining\nmission churches and Sunday schools, and of acquiring property therefor,\nby executing a certificate stating the name of such corporation, the\ncity in which its principal office or church or school is or is intended\nto be located; the number of trustees to manage its affairs, which shall\nbe three, six or nine, and the names of the trustees for the first year\nof its existence, which certificate shall be acknowledged or proved and\nfiled as hereinbefore provided.  Whenever a mission church established\nby such corporation becomes self-sustaining, such mission church may\n

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§ 19. Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and\nSunday schools. Ten or more members of two or more incorporated churches\nmay become a corporation for the purpose of organizing and maintaining\nmission churches and Sunday schools, and of acquiring property therefor,\nby executing a certificate stating the name of such corporation, the\ncity in which its principal office or church or school is or is intended\nto be located; the number of trustees to manage its affairs, which shall\nbe three, six or nine, and the names of the trustees for the first year\nof its existence, which certificate shall be acknowledged or proved and\nfiled as hereinbefore provided. Whenever a mission church established\nby such corporation becomes self-sustaining, such mission church may\nbecome incorporated and shall be governed under the provisions of this\nchapter for the incorporation and government of a church of the\nreligious denomination to which such mission church belongs, and thereon\nsuch parent corporation may convey to such incorporated church the\nproperty connected therewith.\n