New York § 403 - 403Certificate of incorporation

Full text of New York New York Consolidated Laws § 403 — 403Certificate of incorporation, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 403. 403Certificate of incorporation

§ 403. Certificate of incorporation. (a) If the meeting held pursuant to section four hundred two shall decide that the unincorporated society shall become incorporated, the presiding officer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall execute a certificate entitled "Certificate of Incorporation pursuant to article nineteen of the Religious Corporations Law." This certificate shall state: (1) the name of the proposed corporation, (2) a statement that it is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association, (3) the number of trustees thereof or that the number of trustees shall not be less than a stated minimum nor more than a stated maximum, (4) the names and residences of the trustees until the first annual meeting, (5) the terms of office for which the trustees were respectively elected, (6) the county, town, city or village in which the principal place of worship or office is or is intended to be located. (b) On the filing and recording of such certificate the persons qualified to vote at such meeting and those persons who shall thereafter from time to time be qualified voters at the corporate meetings thereof shall be a corporation by the name stated in such certificate and the persons therein stated to be elected trustees of such society shall be the trustees thereof for the terms for which they were respectively elected and until their respective successors shall be elected.

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