N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 131: The meeting for incorporation

§ 131. The meeting for incorporation. At the meeting for

incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, the qualified voters,

until otherwise decided as hereinafter provided, shall be all persons of

full age, who are then members, in good and regular standing of such

church, by admission into full communion or membership therewith. At

such meeting the presence of a majority of such qualified voters, at

least six in number, shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, and all

matters or questions shall be decided by a majority of the qualified

voters voting thereon. There shall be elected at said meeting from the

qualified voters then present, a presiding officer, a clerk to keep the

record of the proceedings of the meeting and two inspectors of election

to receive the ballots cast. The presiding officer and the inspectors

shall declare the result of the ballots cast on any matter, and shall be

the judges of the qualifications of voters. If the meeting shall decide

that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the meeting

shall also decide upon the name of the proposed corporation, the number

of the trustees thereof, which shall be three, six, nine, twelve or

eighteen, and the date, not more than fifteen months thereafter, on

which the first annual election of the trustees thereof shall be held,

and shall decide also whether those who, from the time of the formation

of such church or during the year preceding the meeting for

incorporation, have statedly worshipped with such church and have

regularly contributed to the financial support thereof, shall be

qualified voters at such meeting for incorporation, and whether those

who during the year preceding the subsequent corporate meetings of the

church shall have statedly worshipped with such church and shall have

regularly contributed to the financial support thereof, shall be

qualified voters at such corporate meetings. Such meeting shall

thereupon elect by ballot from the persons qualified to vote thereat

one-third of the number of trustees so decided on, who shall hold office

until the first annual election of trustees thereafter, and one-third of

such number of trustees who shall hold office until the second annual

election of trustees thereafter, and one-third of such number of

trustees who shall hold office until the third annual election of

trustees thereafter, or until the respective successors of such trustees

shall be elected.