§ 340. Resolutions to be adopted at the meeting for incorporation. 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 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 Byelorussian Autocephalic 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
jurisdictions and in obedience to bishops acknowledged and certified by
the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America; and

Whereas, the signors thereof are the trustees, duly elected as such at
a meeting duly held on the ............ day of .......... , nineteen
hundred .......... , in accordance with article eighteen of the
religious corporations law; and

Whereas, by a majority vote the said meeting has determined to
incorporate as a Church of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church
in America under the name of (here give the corporate name by which such
church 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 archbishop, bishop or administrator) to whose
jurisdiction and authority this corporation shall adhere.

Therefore it is hereby resolved, that this congregation shall become
and remain an incorporated church of the aforesaid jurisdiction in full
unity of communion, faith and discipline with the Byelorussian
Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America and that the clergymen trustees
of this said church shall be the archbishop, or bishop, who is the
administrator of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in
America and rector of this church, and their successors in office, shall
by virtue of their offices, be the clergymen trustees of this church,
which said two officers together, with the .......... laymen trustees
elected at this incorporation meeting, shall constitute the trustees
thereof. Said clergymen trustees' term of office shall continue until
their successors in said office are elected by the governing
ecclesiastical body of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church,
and said laymen trustees' term of office shall be that fixed by statute.