N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-g: Changing number of trustees

§ 225-g. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated church may, at

its annual meeting where trustees are elected, by vote change the number

of its trustees to three, six or nine by adding more trustees, one-third

of which shall be elected for three years, one-third for two years, and

one-third for one year; or by voting to discontinue the offices of

certain specified trustees as they expire, one-third of said offices to

be discontinued each year, until the number left is the number decided

upon. Such changes in the board of trustees shall always provide that at

least two-thirds of the trustees shall be members in full connection of

the free Methodist church in good and regular standing. No such change

shall affect the terms of the trustees then in office, but each shall

hold office until his full term has expired, unless his office is

terminated according to section two hundred and twenty-five-h of this

article.