N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 348: Meetings of trustees

§ 348. Meetings of trustees. 1. Meetings of the trustees of an

incorporated church to which this article is applicable may be held at

stated intervals, or shall be called by the chairman of the board of

trustees on his own motion, or upon request of one of the clergymen

trustees or any two of the laymen trustees by giving at least

twenty-four hours notice thereof personally or by mail to all trustees,

but by the unanimous consent of the trustees a meeting may be held

without previous notice thereof.

2. To duly constitute such regular or special meeting of the trustees

for the transaction of business, at any meeting lawfully convened, there

shall be present a majority of the laymen trustees, the archbishop, or

bishop, who is administrator of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox

Church in America, the rector of the church, unless there is no rector

at that time, or he shall be necessarily absent, and the clerk of the

corporation. If the archbishop, or bishop, cannot be present, he may

send his proxy to one of the laymen trustees.

3. The chairman of the board of trustees shall preside or if he shall

be necessarily absent, the rector shall preside at the meeting.

4. No act or procedure other than regular routine matters in regard to

the administration of the temporal affairs of the church and for the

care of the property of the corporation, as included in the budget

items, shall be valid without the sanction of the archbishop, or bishop,

who is administrator of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in

America.

5. The effect of a tie vote creating a deadlock shall be to carry the

question involved (with all pending questions appertaining thereto) over

to the next meeting of the board. In case of such a deadlock extending

beyond three successive meetings of the board of trustees, the whole

matter involved shall be settled in a meeting of the corporate society.