New York Religious Corporations Law

• NY RELIG CORP § 2. Definitions

• NY RELIG CORP § 2-a. Application

• NY RELIG CORP § 2-b. Applicability of not-for-profit corporation law

• NY RELIG CORP § 3. Filing and recording certificates of incorporation of religious corporations

• NY RELIG CORP § 4-a. Age qualifications of voters

• NY RELIG CORP § 5. General powers and duties of trustees of religious corporations

• NY RELIG CORP § 27. Reservation as to Baptist churches, churches of the United Church of Christ and Congregational Christian churches

• NY RELIG CORP § 5-a. Investment of funds

• NY RELIG CORP § 6. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for branch institutions;  establishment, maintenance and management thereof

• NY RELIG CORP § 7. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for cemetery purposes;  management thereof

• NY RELIG CORP § 7-a. Deeds for cemetery purposes;  presumption

• NY RELIG CORP § 8. Lot owners' rights

• NY RELIG CORP § 8-a. Reacquisition of a lot, plot or part thereof by a cemetery

• NY RELIG CORP § 9. Removal of human remains from one cemetery of a religious corporation to another cemetery owned by it

• NY RELIG CORP § 10. Acquisition of property by two or more religious corporations for a common parsonage

• NY RELIG CORP § 11. Correction and confirmation of conveyances to religious corporations

• NY RELIG CORP § 12. Sale, mortgage and lease of real property of religious corporations

• NY RELIG CORP § 13. Consolidation or merger of incorporated churches

• NY RELIG CORP § 14. Judicial investigation of amount of property of religious corporations

• NY RELIG CORP § 15. Corporations with governing authority over, or advisory relations with, churches or synods, or both

• NY RELIG CORP § 15-a. Consolidation of incorporated presbyteries

• NY RELIG CORP § 15-b. Consolidation or merger of incorporated Presbyterian and Lutheran synods

• NY RELIG CORP § 16. Property of extinct churches

• NY RELIG CORP § 50-gg. Changing date of annual corporate meetings

• NY RELIG CORP § 17. Property of extinct Free Baptist churches

• NY RELIG CORP § 17-a. Property of extinct Seventh Day Baptist churches and Seventh Day Baptist religious societies

• NY RELIG CORP § 17-b. Property of extinct Presbyterian churches in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

• NY RELIG CORP § 17-c. Property of Lutheran congregations

• NY RELIG CORP § 18. Dissolution of religious corporations

• NY RELIG CORP § 19. Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and Sunday schools