2006 New York Code - Meeting For Incorporation.

 
    §  322.  Meeting  for  incorporation.  1.  Notice of a meeting for the
  purpose of incorporating an unincorporated United Methodist church shall
  be in writing and shall state in  substance,  that  a  meeting  of  such
  unincorporated  church  will  be held at its usual place of worship at a
  specified day and hour, for the purpose of incorporating such  a  church
  and selecting a name therefor and electing trustees thereof.
    2.  Such  notice  must  be  signed by at least six full members of the
  church who are all of full age and in good and  regular  standing.  This
  notice  shall be publicly read at each of the two next preceding regular
  meetings of such unincorporated church for public worship, at least  one
  week  apart,  at morning service, if such service be held, on Sunday, if
  Sunday be the day for such regular meetings by the pastor or by  one  of
  the signers thereof.
    3.  At the meeting for incorporation held in pursuance of such notice,
  the following persons, and no others, shall be qualified voters, to wit:
  all persons of full age who are then full members in  good  and  regular
  standing  in such church. The presence of at least six persons qualified
  to vote thereat shall be necessary to constitute  a  quorum  of  such  a
  meeting. Each action of the meeting upon any matter or question shall be
  decided  by  a  majority  of  the  qualified  voters  present and voting
  thereon. At such a meeting the district  superintendent  or  the  pastor
  shall  preside,  or  in the absence of both or in case of either or both
  declining to preside, any qualified voter may  be  elected  to  preside.
  The  presiding  officer  shall  be  the  judge  of the qualifications of
  voters, subject to appeal to the  vote  of  the  members  present  whose
  qualifications as voters are not challenged, and shall receive the votes
  cast and declare the result of the same.
    4.  If  such  meeting  shall decide to incorporate such unincorporated
  church,  it  shall  also  decide  upon  the   name   of   the   proposed
  incorporation, the number of trustees thereof, which shall be three, six
  or  nine,  and  shall  determine  the date, not more than fifteen months
  thereafter, on which the first annual election of the  trustees  thereof
  after such meeting shall be held. Such meeting shall elect by ballot the
  number of trustees decided upon, which trustees shall be of full age and
  two-thirds  of  whom  shall  be  members of The United Methodist Church.
  One-third of these shall be elected  to  hold  office  until  the  first
  annual  election  of  trustees  thereafter,  one-third  until the second
  annual election, and one-third until the third annual election.