N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 161: The meeting for incorporation

§ 161. 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 have statedly worshiped with such church and have regularly

contributed to its support, according to its usages, for at least one

year or since it was formed. At such meeting the presence of a majority

of such qualified voters, in person, or by proxy duly authorized in

writing, 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. The meeting shall be called to

order by one of the signers of the call. There shall be elected at such

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 decide the result of the ballots cast

on any matter, and shall be the judges of the qualifications of the

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 or nine, and the date, not more than fifteen months

thereafter, on which the first annual election of the trustees thereof

shall be held; and it may, by a two-thirds vote, decide that all members

of the unincorporated church, of full age, in good and regular standing

who have statedly worshiped with such church but who have not

contributed to the financial support thereof, shall also be qualified

voters at such meeting, and that such church members, who, for one year

next preceding any subsequent corporate meeting, shall have statedly

worshiped with such church and have been members thereof in good and

regular standing, but have not regularly contributed to the financial

support thereof, shall be qualified voters at such corporate meetings.

Such meetings 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, 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. Such meeting shall also elect by ballot

a clerk of the corporation, who shall hold his office until the close of

the next annual meeting.