N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 136: Changing number of trustees

§ 136. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated Baptist church

may, at an annual corporate meeting, change the number of its trustees

to not less than three, nor more than eighteen, or classify them so that

the terms of one-third expire each year, provided that notice of such

intended change or classification be included in the notice of such

annual corporate meeting. No such change shall affect the terms of the

trustees then in office, and if the change reduces the number of

trustees, elections shall not be held to fill vacancies caused by the

expiration of the terms of trustees until the number of trustees equals

the number to which the trustees were reduced. Whenever the number of

trustees in office is less than the number so determined on, sufficient

additional trustees shall be elected to make the number of trustees

equal to the number so determined on. The trustees so elected up to and

including one-third of the number so determined on, shall be elected for

three years, the remainder up to and including one-third of the number

so determined on for two years, and the remainder for one year.