§ 190. Application of this article. This article is not applicable to
a Baptist church, a Congregational Christian church, whether or not a
part of the United Church of Christ, a church of the United Church of
Christ incorporated after September first, nineteen hundred seventy-one,
an Independent church, a United Methodist church, a Protestant Episcopal
church, a Roman Catholic church, a Presbyterian church in connection
with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America, a Christian Orthodox Catholic church of the Eastern
Confession, a Ruthenian Greek Catholic church, or a Church of Christ,
Scientist. No provision of this article is applicable to a reformed
church in America, a True Reformed Dutch church in the United States of
America, a Reformed Presbyterian church, or to an Evangelical Lutheran
church, incorporated after October first, eighteen hundred and
ninety-five, except as declared to be so applicable by article six of
this chapter; this article is applicable to an Evangelical Lutheran
church incorporated before October first, eighteen hundred ninety-five,
if the trustees thereof were then elective as such and so long as they
continue to be elective as such. Article six of this chapter is
applicable to an Evangelical Lutheran church incorporated before October
first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, if its trustees were not then
elective as such and so long as its trustees continue not to be elective
as such. This article is applicable to churches of all other
denominations.