N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 166: Changing number of trustees

§ 166. Changing number of trustees. Any such incorporated church may,

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

three, six, nine, twelve or fifteen, classifying them so that the terms

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

change 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 the 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.