N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 65: Corporate meetings

§ 65. Corporate meetings. 1. In every incorporated church to which

this article applies and in which the trustees thereof as such are

elective, there shall be held an annual corporate meeting. Such annual

corporate meeting of every incorporated church to which this article is

applicable shall be held at the time and place fixed by or in pursuance

of law therefor, if such time and place be so fixed, and otherwise at a

time and place to be fixed by its trustees and in accordance with the

constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

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

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

written request of at least ten qualified voters of such church, or on

the request of the session thereof, and shall be called and notice

thereof given in the same manner as for an annual corporate meeting.

3. The trustees shall cause notice of the time and place of its

corporate meetings to be given at a regular meeting of the church for

public worship, at morning service, if such service be held, on each of

the two successive Sundays next preceding such meeting, if public

worship be had thereon, or otherwise on each of two days, at least one

week apart, next preceding such meeting; or if no such public worship be

held during such period, by conspicuously posting such notice, in

writing, upon the outer entrance to the principal place of worship of

such church. Such notice shall be given by the minister of the church,

if there be one, or by the officiating minister thereof, if there be

one, or by any officer of such church. If such notice be of an annual

corporate meeting it shall specify the names of the trustees whose

successors are to be elected thereat; if such notice be of a special

corporate meeting, it shall specify the particular business to be

transacted thereat, and no other business shall be transacted at such

special corporate meeting.

4. Whenever in any such incorporated church, by virtue of their

offices, any of the spiritual officers thereof are the trustees thereof,

they may in their discretion call special corporate meetings of such

incorporated church; and in such case such meetings shall be called by

the same notice published or posted in the same manner as herein

provided for the notice of such a meeting by the trustees of such a

church elected as such; and in each such case such notice must specify

the particular business to be transacted at such meeting, and no other

business shall be transacted at such special corporate meeting.