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N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 133: Time, place and notice of corporate meetings

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  1. Religious Corporations Law
  2. Article 7. Baptist Churches

§ 133. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings. The annual

corporate meeting of every incorporated Baptist church shall be held at

the time and place fixed by or in pursuance of law therefor, if such

time and place be so fixed, and otherwise, at a time and place to be

fixed by its trustees. A special corporate meeting of any such church

may be called by the board of trustees thereof, on its own motion, and

shall be called on the written request of at least ten qualified voters

of such church. The trustees shall cause notice of the time and place of

its annual corporate meeting, and of the names of any trustees whose

successors are to be elected thereat; and, if a special meeting, of the

business to be transacted thereat, to be publicly read by the minister

of such church or any trustee thereof at a regular meeting of the church

for public worship, on the two successive Sundays immediately preceding

such meeting; or if no such meeting for public worship shall have been

held during such period, by conspicuously posting such notice, in

writing, upon the outer entrance of the principal place of worship of

such church and by mailing a copy of such notice to each member of such

church in a securely sealed envelope, postage prepaid, addressed to his

last known place of residence, at least two weeks before such meeting.

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