yourstate.us
Home / New York / Religious Corporations Law
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-A

Organization of a free Methodist church

New York · New York Religious Corporations Law · Status: effective · Effective 2014-09-22

Get this as JSONEmbed this
Cite this
Citation
N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-A, Organization of a free Methodist church, New York, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-25, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/1126552
Permanent ID
ys:prov:1126552@1
SHA-256
c511ddbfd338d84ad71fa1ec5a52360960cd052d35e557f3e0d7ce7aa0f88c85

The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.

Full text

§ 225-a. Organization of a free Methodist church. It shall be lawful for any number of persons, not less than six, with the consent of the district superintendent of the district in which the proposed church is to be located, to organize a free Methodist church and to procure its incorporation. Said church, when so organized, shall be subject in all matters of church government and ecclesiastical polity to the discipline, rules, usages and ministerial appointments of the Free Methodist Church of North America, as from time to time authorized and declared by the general conference of said church and the annual conference within the bounds of which such church may be situated.