N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 134: Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters thereat

§ 134. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications

of voters thereat. At a corporate meeting of an incorporated Baptist

church the qualified voters shall be all persons who are then members of

such church in good and regular standing by admission into full

communion or membership therewith, or who have statedly worshipped with

such church and have regularly contributed to the financial support

thereof during the year next preceding such meeting; but any

incorporated Baptist church may at any annual corporate meeting thereof,

if notice of the intention so to do has been given with the notice of

such meeting, decide that thereafter only members of such church in good

and regular standing by admission into full communion or membership

therewith shall be qualified voters at the corporate meetings. At such

corporate meetings the presence of at least six persons qualified to

vote thereat 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

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

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

of election shall declare the result of the ballots cast on any matter

and shall be the judge of the qualifications of voters. At each annual

corporate meeting, successors to those trustees whose terms of office

then expire, shall be elected by ballot from the qualified voters, for a

term of three years thereafter, and until their successors shall be

elected.