2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 11-A - (225 - 225-O) FREE METHODIST CHURCHES.
225-F - Annual election of trustees.

 
    §  225-f.  Annual election of trustees. 1. Trustees of an incorporated
  free Methodist church shall be elected at  the  annual  society  meeting
  held  within  three months prior to the session of the annual conference
  to which the society belongs.  Notice of such meeting shall be  publicly
  announced  at  a  regular meeting of such incorporated church for public
  worship upon Sunday, if such service be held on Sunday, and at least ten
  days, and not more than thirty days, before said meeting shall be  held.
  This notice shall be given by the pastor, the officiating minister or an
  officer  of  the  church.  At the said annual society meeting the pastor
  shall preside, or in  the  absence  of  a  pastor  or  in  case  of  his
  declining, any qualified voter therein may be elected to preside. During
  the election of the trustees the following persons, and no others, shall
  be  qualified  voters,  to wit: all persons who are then members in full
  connection or on probation of such church in good and regular  standing.
  Said  election  shall  be by ballot and on a majority vote, and at least
  six persons qualified to vote thereat shall be necessary to constitute a
  quorum. The trustees shall be so elected that the office of one-third of
  them shall continue for  three  years,  one-third  for  two  years,  and
  one-third  for  one  year. At least two-thirds of said trustees shall be
  members in full connection of the free  Methodist  church  in  good  and
  regular  standing.  All  trustees  shall  hold  their office until their
  successors are elected, unless their office shall terminate as  provided
  for in section two hundred and twenty-five-h of this article.
    2. A special corporate meeting of any such church may be called by the
  trustees  thereof  on  their  own  motion,  and  must be called upon the
  written request of at least six qualified voters  of  such  church,  and
  shall  be  called  and notice thereof given in the same manner as for an
  annual corporate meeting.