than three directors. Upon the formation of such corporation in pursuance of such article, the owners of lots in such cemetery shall be members of the corporation, and the corporation shall become vested with the title to such unincorporated cemetery and the personal property connected therewith, subject to all the provisions of law, in relation to cemetery corporations. If, however, the title to such cemetery has prior to such incorporation vested in the town, pursuant to section one hundred and ninety-five of the town law, or section one of title seven of chapter eleven of part one of the revised statutes, the supervisor of such town shall on request of the directors of such corporation, execute to such corporation a deed of such cemetery lands releasing all interest of the town therein, and thereafter the title of such cemetery shall be vested in the corporation. (Added by chap. 480 of 1900.) ARTICLE IV. FIRE CORPORATIONS. SECTION 65. Certificate of incorporation. 66. Powers. § 65. Certificate of incorporation.-Ten or more persons may become a fire, hose, protective or hook and ladder corporation by making, acknowledging and filing a certificate, stating the particular object for which the corporation is to be formed; the name of the proposed corporation; the city, village or town in which it proposes to act; the number of directors; and the names and places of residence of the persons to be directors until its first annual meeting. Such certificate shall not be filed without the approval indorsed thereupon, or annexed thereto, of a justice of the supreme court. nor unless there is annexed thereto a certified copy of the resolution of the board of trustees of the village, or the approval of the mayor of the city, or, if not within a village or city, a resolution of the town board of the town in which the corporation proposes to act, consenting to its incorporation. On filing such certificate, in pursuance of law, the signers thereof. their associates and successors, shall be a corporation in accordance with the provisions of such certificate. § 66. Powers.- A fire, hose, protective or a hook and ladder corporation, incorporated under this article or under a law repealed by this chapter, shall only engage in such business as properly belongs to a fire, hose, protective or hook and ladder corporation, in the city, village or town named in its certificate. In participating in the prevention and extinguishing of fires, such corporation shall be under the control of the city or village authorities having by law, control over the prevention or extinguishment of fires therein. Corporations for the Prevention of Cruelty. ARTICLE V. §§ 70-71 CORPORATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY. SECTION 70. Certificate of incorporation. 71. Prohibition of new incorporations in certain counties. 8 70. Certificate of incorporation.-Five or more persons may become a corporation for the prevention of cruelty to children, or the prevention of cruelty to animals, by making, acknowledging, and filing a certificate stating the particular objects for which the corporation is to be formed; the name of the proposed corporation; the county in which its operations are to be conducted; the town, village or city in which its principal office is to be located; the number of its directors not less than five nor more than thirty; the names and places of residence of the persons to be its directors until its first annual meeting; and the time for holding such annual meeting. Such certificate shall not be filed unless the written consent and approbation thereof of a justice of the supreme court of the judicial district in which the place of business or principal office of such corporation shall be located be first indorsed thereon; nor unless there is annexed thereto the written certificate of the New York society for the prevention of cruelty to children, if such be the object specified, and of the American society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, if such be the object so specified, approving such incorporation. If the approval of either of such societies is not given within thirty days after application therefor, the persons proposing to form such corporation may apply to such justice for his approval upon eight days' notice of the time and place of application to the society refusing approval, which shall be entitled to appear and be heard, and the granting or refusal of the approval by the justice shall thereupon be discretionary with him. On filing such certificate in pursuance of law, the signers thereof, their associates and successors shall be a corporation in accordance with the provisions of such certificate. 71. Prohibition of new corporations in certain counties.A corporation for the prevention of cruelty to animals shall not hereafter be incorporated for the purpose of conducting its operations in the counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Westchester or Rensselaer, or in any other county, if thereby there would be two or more such corporations formed for the purpose of conducting operations in such county. (As amended by chap. 469 of 1896, § 1.) 872. Special powers.-A corporation formed for the purpoes of preventing cruelty to children may prefer a complaint before any court, tribunal, or magistrate having jurisdiction, for the violation of any law relating to or affecting children, and may aid in presenting the law and facts to such court, tribunal, or magistrate in any proceeding therein. A corporation formed for the purpose of preventing cruelty to animals may prefer a complaint before any court, tribunal, or magistrate having jurisdiction, for the violation of any law relating to or affecting the prevention of cruelty to animals, and may aid in presenting the law and facts to such court, tribunal, or magistrate in any proceeding therein. A corporation for the prevention of cruelty to children may be appointed guardian of the person of a minor child during its minority by a court of record, or a judge thereof, and may receive and retain any child at its own expense on commitment of a court or magistrate. All magistrates and peace officers shall aid such a corporation, its officers, agents, and members in the enforcement of laws relating to or affecting children, and for the prevention of cruelty to animals. ARTICLE VI. HOSPITAL CORPORATIONS. SECTION 80. Certificate of incorporation. § 80. Certificate of incorporation.- Five or more persons may become a corporation for the purpose of erecting, establishing, or maintaining a hospital, infirmary, dispensary, or home for invalids, aged or indigent persons by making, acknowledging, and filing a certificate, stating the particular object for which the corporation is to be formed; the name of the proposed corporation; the town, village or city in which its principal office is to be located; the number of directors, not less than three nor more than forty-eight; the names and places of residence of the persons to be its directors until its first annual meeting, and the time for holding its annual meetings. Such certificate may also specify the qualification of members of the corporation with respect to their adherence or non-adherence to a particular school or theory of medical or surgical treatment; and the systems of medical practice or treatment to be used or applied in such hospitals, infirmary, dispensary or home. Such certificate shall not be filed without the written approval indorsed thereupon, or annexed thereto, of the state board of charities and of a justice of the supreme court of the district in which the principal office or place of business of such corporation shall be located. On filing such certificate, in pursuance of law, the signers thereof, their associates and successors, shall be a corporation, in accordance with the provisions of such certificate. (As amended by chap. 404 of 1900.) ARTICLE VII. CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS. SECTION 90. Certificate of incorporation. 91. Directors and trustees. § 90. Certificate of incorporation.-Twenty or more men may become a young men's Christian association, and twenty or more women may become a young women's Christian association, for the purposes of improving the spiritual, mental, social and physical condition of young men, or of young women, as the case may be, by making, acknowledging and filing a certificate stating the particular objects for which the corporation is to be formed; which objects in the case of young men's Christian associations shall conform to the general rules and regulations of the state executive committee of the young men's Christian associations of this state; the name of the proposed corporation; the town, village or city in which its principal office is to be located; the number of directors, not less than three nor more than thirty; the names and places of residence of the persons to be its directors, until the first annual meeting; the times for holding its annual meetings; and the names of six trustees, each of whom shall be a member of some Protestant evangelical denomination, and not more than two of whom shall be members of any one denomination, to hold office until their successors are elected, as provided by the by-laws. Such certificate shall not be filed without the approval of a justice of the supreme court indorsed thereupon or annexed thereto. On filing such certificate, in pursuance of law, the signers thereof, their associates and successors shall be a corporation in accordance with the provisions of such certificate, but no person shall be eligible to membership of such a corporation unless he have the same qualifications as the persons authorized to sign the certificate of incorporation thereof. (As amended by chap. 541 of 1900.) § 91. Directors and trustees.-The trustees of such a corporation, with the president of the corporation, shall be a board of trustees thereof, and hold and control the real property of the corporation and all gifts and bequests of money to be held in trust. They shall pay the income of such property to the treasurer of the corporation so long as the income shall be expended by the directors thereof for the purposes for which it was formed. The real property of such corporation shall not be liable for any debt or obligation contracted without the approval of the board of trustees. In all proceedings for the purchase, sale, mortgage, and lease of real property, the board of trustees of such a corporation shall act as the board of directors thereof. The directors of such corporation shall have the management and control of its property and affairs, except as such management and control is given by law to the board of trustees thereof. 892. Dissolution. Whenever any association formed under the provisions of this article shall cease to carry out the objects set forth in its certificate of incorporation, according to the general rules and regulations of the state executive committee of young men's Christian associations of this state, or shall abandon the use of any of its property for such objects, then upon the application of a majority of the managers or directors of such association upon fourteen days' notice to said state executive committee by service thereof upon its chairman and secretary or in the event of their failure to act, upon the application of the said state executive committee of young men's Christian associations of the state of New York, by petition signed by a majority of the members of the said state executive committee and verified by its chairman, to be made upon fourteen days' notice to be given to such association by service thereof upon its president, or any director or manager thereof and upon one of the trustees thereof, and upon notice to the attorneygeneral of the state of New York, the supreme court, upon satisfactory proof of the fact of such failure or abandonment, must make a final order dissolving such corporation, and upon the entry thereof, the corporation shall be dissolved, and upon such dissolution the court may appoint one or more persons as receiver or receivers of the property of such corporation. (Added by chap. 541 of 1900.) § 93- added 1901 c. 469 ARTICLE VIII. BAR ASSOCIATIONS. SECTION 100. Certificate of incorporation. 100. Certificate of incorporation.- Nine or more attorneys or counselors of the supreme court of this state, in active practice, and residing or having their offices in the same county, may become a bar association for the purposes of cultivating the science of jurisprudence, promoting reforms in the law, facilitating the administration of justice, elevating the standard of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession, and cherishing the spirit of brotherhood among the members thereof, by making, acknowledging and filing a certificate stating the particular objects for which the corporation is to be formed; the name of the proposed corporation; the county in which its operations are to be conducted; the town, village or city in which its principal office is to be located; the number of its directors, not less than three nor more than thirty; the names and places of |