New Jersey § 16:15a-2
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 16:15a-2, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 16:15a-2.
Any unincorporated Russian Orthodox church in this State may incorporate by executing
a certificate setting forth the name by which such church shall be known, its principal
place of worship, the number of its trustees and the names of the trustees and their
terms of office. There shall be attached to such certificate the permission to incorporate signed
by the metropolitan archbishop or other primate or hierarch of the Russian Church
in America or by a locum tenens acting in his place. Such certificate shall be executed by not less than six lay members of the church
and shall be acknowledged or proved in the same manner as deeds of real estate. The certificate shall be filed and recorded forthwith in the office of the clerk of
the county in which the church is or is to be located, whereupon such church shall
be a corporation by the name stated in the certificate.
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