§ 470. Application. 1. This article applies to any unincorporated
church affiliated with the Sikh 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 seventy-one and four hundred seventy-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 Sikh 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.