§ 293. Provisions governing meetings for incorporation and resolutions
to be adopted thereat. 1. At the meeting for incorporation, held in
pursuance of such notice, qualified voters shall be those qualified
under the by-laws of such unincorporated church, congregation, parish,
society or committee, or in the absence of such by-laws, the persons
qualified to vote in parish meetings in accordance with the rules and
regulations or general usages of that jurisdiction of the Orthodox Greek
Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church to which the proposed corporation is
to adhere.

2. The meeting shall be called to order by the priest in charge of the
parish, congregation, society, or committee or, in his absence, by one
of the signers of the notice and shall elect the customarily required
officers to conduct the meeting. In order to incorporate under this
article the meeting shall adopt the following resolution by a majority
of its qualified voters, present and voting, to wit:

WHEREAS, this (congregation, parish, church, society or committee) was
founded and established, and thereby a permanent trust was created, for
the purpose and intent of adhering to, maintaining and promoting
religious worship and teaching according to the communion, doctrine,
discipline, rite, canon law, traditions and usages of the Orthodox Greek
Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church; and

WHEREAS, such purpose and intent and the trust thereby created can be
fully effected and safeguarded only in complete canonical unity with
Orthodox jurisdictions and in obedience to Orthodox Greek Catholic
bishops acknowledged and certified by the Federated Orthodox Greek
Catholic Primary Jurisdictions in America; and

WHEREAS, the signers hereof are the trustees, duly elected as such at
a meeting duly held on the ............. day of ........ , nineteen
hundred ..... , in accordance with article fifteen of the religious
corporations law; and

WHEREAS, by a majority vote the said meeting has determined to
incorporate under said article as a (parish, society or committee) of
the Orthodox Greek Catholic (Eastern Orthodox) Church under the name of
.............................. (here give the corporate name by which
such church, society or committee is to be known); and

WHEREAS, permission and sanction for such incorporation has been given
and certified in accordance with the provisions of said article by
.............................. (here name the appropriate hierarch,
bishop or administrator) to whose jurisdiction and authority this
corporation shall adhere,

Therefore it is hereby

RESOLVED, that this (congregation, parish, church, society or
committee) shall become and remain an incorporated (parish, society or
committee) of the aforesaid jurisdiction in full unity of communion,
faith and discipline with the Federated Orthodox Greek Catholic Primary
Jurisdictions in America.