§ 404. Approvals, notices and consents.\n (a) Every certificate of incorporation which includes among its\npurposes the formation of a trade or business association shall have\nendorsed thereon or annexed thereto the consent of the attorney-general.\n (b) (1) Every certificate of incorporation which includes among its\npurposes the care of destitute, delinquent, abandoned, neglected or\ndependent children; the establishment or operation of any adult care\nfacility, or the establishment or operation of a residential program for\nvictims of domestic violence as defined in subdivision four of section\nfour hundred fifty-nine-a of the social services law, or the placing-out\nor boarding-out of children or a home or shelter for unmarried mothers,\nexcepting the establishment or maintenance of a hospital or facility\nproviding health-related services as those terms are defined in article\ntwenty-eight of the public health law and a facility for which an\noperating certificate is required by articles sixteen, nineteen,\ntwenty-two and thirty-one of the mental hygiene law; or the solicitation\nof contributions for any such purpose or purposes, shall have endorsed\nthereon or annexed thereto the approval of the commissioner of the\noffice of children and family services or with respect to any adult care\nfacility, the commissioner of health.\n (2) A corporation whose statement of purposes specifically includes\nthe establishment or operation of a child day care center, as that term\nis defined in section three hundred ninety of the social services law,\nshall mail a certified copy of the certificate of incorporation, each\namendment thereto, and any certificate of merger, consolidation or\ndissolution involving such corporation to the office of children and\nfamily services within thirty days after receipt of confirmation of the\nfiling of such certificate, amendment, merger, consolidation or\ndissolution with the department of state. This requirement shall also\napply to any foreign corporation filing an application for authority\nunder section thirteen hundred four of this chapter, any amendments\nthereto, and any surrender of authority or termination of authority in\nthis state of such corporation.\n (c) Every certificate of incorporation which includes among the\npurposes of the corporation, the establishment, maintenance and\noperation of a hospital service or a health service or a medical expense\nindemnity plan or a dental expense indemnity plan as permitted in\narticle forty-three of the insurance law, shall have endorsed thereon or\nannexed thereto the approval of the superintendent of financial services\nand the commissioner of health.\n (d) Every corporation whose certificate of incorporation includes\namong its purposes the operation of a school; a college, university or\nother entity providing post secondary education; a library; or a museum\nor historical society shall have endorsed thereon or annexed thereto the\napproval of the commissioner of education, or in the case of a college\nor a university, the written authorization of the Regents of the\nuniversity of the state of New York. Any other corporation the\ncertificate of incorporation of which includes a purpose for which a\ncorporation might be chartered by the regents of the university of the\nState of New York shall mail a certified copy of the certificate of\nincorporation to the commissioner of education within thirty days after\nreceipt of confirmation of filing.\n (e) Every certificate of incorporation of a cemetery corporation,\nexcept those within the exclusionary provisions of section 1503\n(Cemetery corporations) shall have endorsed thereon or annexed thereto\nthe approval of the cemetery board.\n (f) Every certificate of incorporation of a fire corporation shall\nhave endorsed thereon or annexed thereto the approval, signed and\nacknowledged, of the authorities of each city, village, town or fire\ndistrict in which the corporation proposes to act.
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