426 - Certificate of incorporation.

§  426.  Certificate  of  incorporation.  1.  If  at  the  meeting for  incorporation it shall be decided that such unincorporated church  shall  become  incorporated,  the presiding officer of such meeting and the two  inspectors of election shall execute and acknowledge  a  certificate  of  incorporation,  in which shall be stated the name or title by which such  body shall be known in the law; the purpose  of  its  organization;  the  names  and  addresses  of  the trustees elected thereat and the terms of  office for which they were respectively elected;  the  county,  town  or  city  in  which  its  principal place of worship is or is intended to be  located; and a statement that the corporation shall support the doctrine  and be subject to the constitution and by-laws of and be  in  conformity  with  the principles of the general council of the Assemblies of God and  the New York district of the Assemblies of God  as  from  time  to  time  established,  made  and declared by the lawful authority of said general  council of the Assemblies of God and New York district of the Assemblies  of God.    2. On filing such certificate in the office of the county clerk of the  county in which such corporate body is or is  intended  to  be  located,  such church shall be a corporation by the name stated in the certificate  of  incorporation; but such certificate shall not be filed, unless there  is affixed thereto the written permission of the New  York  district  of  the  Assemblies  of God to incorporate, pursuant to section four hundred  twenty-two of this article.    3. The certificate of incorporation shall further contain a  provision  that,  in the event of dissolution of the corporation, all the remaining  assets and property of the corporation shall, after  necessary  expenses  thereof,  be  distributed  to  either  the  New  York  district  of  the  Assemblies of God, or to the general council of the Assemblies  of  God,  their  successors  and  assigns,  and  that  in  the event said New York  district of the Assemblies of God or general council of  the  Assemblies  of  God  or  if  their  successor  is  not  in  existence at the time of  dissolution, then such assets  are  to  be  distributed  to  such  other  Assemblies  of  God organizations as shall qualify under section 501 (c)  (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, to be used in such  manner as in the judgment of a justice of the supreme court  shall  best  accomplish the general purposes for which the corporation was formed.