2006 New York Code - Changing The Number Of Vestrymen Of Protestant Episcopal Parishes Hereafter Incorporated.

 
    §  44.  Changing  the  number  of  vestrymen  of  Protestant Episcopal
  parishes hereafter incorporated. If the vestry of a Protestant Episcopal
  parish, hereafter incorporated, shall, by resolution, recommend that the
  number of vestrymen of such parish be  changed  to  either  three,  six,
  nine,  twelve,  fifteen,  eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four vestrymen,
  notice of such recommendation shall be included in  the  notice  of  the
  next  annual  election  of  such  parish,  or in the notice of a special
  meeting to be held not less than six months before the  time  fixed  for
  holding  the  next  annual election thereafter, and be submitted to such
  annual or special meeting. If such recommendation be  ratified  by  such
  meeting,  the  presiding  officer  thereof,  and  at least two qualified
  voters present thereat, shall  execute  and  acknowledge  a  certificate
  setting  forth  such  resolution  of  the  vestry,  the fact that notice
  thereof had been given with the notice of such annual election, or  with
  the  notice of such special meeting as the case may be; that the meeting
  had ratified the same; and the number of vestrymen so decided  on.  Such
  certificate  shall  be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in
  which the original certificate of incorporation is filed  and  recorded,
  and such change in the number of vestrymen shall take effect at the time
  of  the  next  annual election thereafter. If the number of vestrymen be
  thereby increased, then, in addition to the number of  vestrymen  to  be
  elected  at  such annual election, one-third of such increased number of
  vestrymen shall be elected to  hold  office  for  one  year  thereafter,
  one-third  of  such increased number shall be elected to hold office for
  two years thereafter, and one-third of such increased  number  shall  be
  elected  to  hold  office  for  three years thereafter. If the number of
  vestrymen by such change be reduced, such reduction shall not affect the
  term of office of any vestryman duly elected, and at  such  next  annual
  election  and  at  each  annual  election  thereafter, one-third of such
  reduced number of vestrymen shall be elected to hold  office  for  three
  years.