N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 264: At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance to such notice, the qualified voters unless otherwise decided as hereinafter provided...

* § 264. At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance to such

notice, the qualified voters unless otherwise decided as hereinafter

provided shall all be persons of full age who have worshipped with such

church, and have regularly contributed to its support according to its

usages, for at least one year or since it was formed, and who have in

good faith in open meeting expressed their belief in the tenets of faith

adopted by the General Assembly of Spiritualists. At such meeting the

presence of a majority of such qualified voters, at least seven 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 a person delegated so

to do by the president of the General Assembly of Spiritualists. There

shall be elected at such meeting, from the qualified voters then present

a presiding officer, a clerk to keep the records 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 worshipped with such church but who

have not contributed to the financial support thereof, shall also be

qualified voters at such meeting. Such meeting shall thereupon elect by

ballot from the persons qualified to vote thereat, 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 or secretary of the

corporation, who shall hold his office until the close of the next

annual meeting.

* NB Enacted without section heading.