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6 - Acquisition of Property by Religious Corporations for Branch Institutions; Establishment, Maintenance and Management Thereof.

NY Rel Corps L § 6 (2019) (N/A)
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§ 6. Acquisition of property by religious corporations for branch institutions; establishment, maintenance and management thereof. Any religious corporation may acquire property for associate houses, church buildings, chapels, mission-houses, school-houses for Sunday or parochial schools, or dispensaries of medicine for its ministers, their wives, husbands and dependent children and for the poor, or property for the residence of its ministers, their wives, husbands and dependent children, teachers or employees, or property for a home for the aged or nursery school or day care center. The persons attending public worship in any such associate house, mission-house, church building, or chapel connected therewith shall not by reason thereof have any rights as members of the parent corporation. The persons statedly worshiping in any such house, mission-house, church building or chapel may, with the consent of the trustees of such corporation, become separately incorporated as a church, and the parent corporation may, in pursuance of the provisions of law regulating the disposition of real property by religious corporations, rent or convey to the new corporation, with or without consideration, any such associate house, church building, chapel, mission-house, school-house or dispensary and the lot connected therewith, subject to such regulations as the trustees of the parent corporation may make. Any religious corporation shall have power to establish, maintain and manage by its trustees or other officers as a part of its religious purpose a home for the aged or nursery school or day care center, and may take and hold by conveyance, donation, bequest or devise real and personal property for such purpose, and may purchase and may erect suitable buildings therefor. Any such corporation may take and hold any grant, donation, bequest or devise of real or personal property heretofore or hereafter made upon trust, and apply the same, or the income thereof, under the direction of its trustees or other officers, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and managing such a home, school or center and for the erection, preservation, repair or extension of any building or buildings for such purpose.

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6 - Acquisition of Property by Religious Corporations for Branch Institutions; Establishment, Maintenance and Management Thereof.