Section 480 - Application1. This article applies to any unincorporated church affiliated with the Islamic faith, and to any heretofore incorporated church or body, so affiliated, which desires to reincorporate pursuant to this article. Independent churches may incorporate or reincorporate under this article in the manner provided in sections four hundred eighty-one and four hundred eighty-seven of this article, and all the provisions of this article shall apply to such churches as the context requires.2. Nothing hereinafter provided shall prevent or prohibit any heretofore incorporated church or body, affiliated with the Islamic faith from maintaining and continuing the relationship which such church or body enjoyed at the time of the effective date of this article should such church or body determine not to reincorporate pursuant to this article.N.Y. Relig. Corp. Law § 480
Added by New York Laws 2015, ch. 468,Sec. 4, eff. 11/20/2015.