N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 162

§ 162. The certificate of incorporation. If the meeting shall decide\nthat such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding\nofficer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall execute\na certificate setting forth the name of the proposed corporation, the\nnumber of trustees thereof, the names of the persons elected as\ntrustees, the terms of office for which they were respectively elected\nand the county and town, city or village in which its principal place of\nworship is or is intended to be located. On the filing and recording of\nsuch certificate, after it shall have been acknowledged or proved as\nhereinbefore provided, the persons qualified to vote at such meeting and\nthose persons who shall thereafter, from time to time, be qualified\nvoters at the corporate meetings thereof, shall be a corporation by the\nname stated in such certificate, and the persons therein stated to be\nelected trustees of such church shall be the trustees thereof for the\nterms for which they were respectively elected and until their\nrespective successors shall be elected.\n