N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-f: Annual election of trustees

§ 225-f. Annual election of trustees. 1. Trustees of an incorporated

free Methodist church shall be elected at the annual society meeting

held within three months prior to the session of the annual conference

to which the society belongs. Notice of such meeting shall be publicly

announced at a regular meeting of such incorporated church for public

worship upon Sunday, if such service be held on Sunday, and at least ten

days, and not more than thirty days, before said meeting shall be held.

This notice shall be given by the pastor, the officiating minister or an

officer of the church. At the said annual society meeting the pastor

shall preside, or in the absence of a pastor or in case of his

declining, any qualified voter therein may be elected to preside. During

the election of the trustees the following persons, and no others, shall

be qualified voters, to wit: all persons who are then members in full

connection or on probation of such church in good and regular standing.

Said election shall be by ballot and on a majority vote, and at least

six persons qualified to vote thereat shall be necessary to constitute a

quorum. The trustees shall be so elected that the office of one-third of

them shall continue for three years, one-third for two years, and

one-third for one year. At least two-thirds of said trustees shall be

members in full connection of the free Methodist church in good and

regular standing. All trustees shall hold their office until their

successors are elected, unless their office shall terminate as provided

for in section two hundred and twenty-five-h of this article.

2. A special corporate meeting of any such church may be called by the

trustees thereof on their own motion, and must be called upon the

written request of at least six qualified voters of such church, and

shall be called and notice thereof given in the same manner as for an

annual corporate meeting.