§ 112. Incorporation of Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and
Evangelical Lutheran churches under this article. If any unincorporated
church in connection with the Reformed church in America, the true
Reformed Dutch church in the United States of America, the Reformed
Presbyterian church, or with the Evangelical Lutheran church, determine
to incorporate in pursuance of this article, the minister or ministers
and the elders and deacons thereof shall execute, acknowledge and cause
to be filed and recorded, a certificate in pursuance of this article.
The deacons of a Reformed Presbyterian church may alone sign such
certificate if authorized so to do by such church. Such certificate of
incorporation shall state the name of the proposed corporation, the
county and town, city or village where its principal place of worship is
or is intended to be located, and, if it be an Evangelical Lutheran
church, the fact that a meeting of such church duly called decided that
it be incorporated under this article. If it be signed by the deacons
of a Reformed Presbyterian church, it shall state that they were
authorized so to do by such church. On filing such certificate such
church shall be a corporation by the name stated therein, and the
minister or ministers, if any, and the elders and deacons of such church
shall by virtue of their offices be the trustees of such corporation,
except that if it be a Reformed Presbyterian church, the certificate of
incorporation of which shall have been, in pursuance of law, signed by
its deacons only, the deacons of such church shall, by virtue of their
offices, be the trustees of such corporation.