N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 68: Changing number of trustees

§ 68. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated church to which

this article is applicable, may, at an annual corporate meeting, change

the number of its trustees to three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen,

eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four, and classify them so that the terms

of one-third expire each year. No such change shall affect the terms of

the trustees then in office, and if the change reduces the number of

trustees it shall not take effect until the number of trustees whose

terms of office continue for one or more years after an annual election,

is less than the number determined upon. Whenever the number of trustees

so holding over is less than the number so determined on, trustees shall

be elected in addition to those so holding over sufficient to make the

number of trustees for the ensuing year equal to the number so

determined on. The trustees so elected up to and including one-third of

the number so determined on, shall be elected for three years, the

remainder up to and including one-third of the number so determined on

for two years and the remainder for one year.