2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 11-A - (225 - 225-O) FREE METHODIST CHURCHES.
225-G - Changing number of trustees.

 
    §  225-g.  Changing number of trustees. An incorporated church may, at
  its annual meeting where trustees are elected, by vote change the number
  of its trustees to three, six or nine by adding more trustees, one-third
  of which shall be elected for three years, one-third for two years,  and
  one-third  for  one  year;  or  by  voting to discontinue the offices of
  certain specified trustees as they expire, one-third of said offices  to
  be  discontinued  each year, until the number left is the number decided
  upon. Such changes in the board of trustees shall always provide that at
  least two-thirds of the trustees shall be members in full connection  of
  the  free  Methodist church in good and regular standing. No such change
  shall affect the terms of the trustees then in office,  but  each  shall
  hold  office  until  his  full  term  has  expired, unless his office is
  terminated according to section two hundred and  twenty-five-h  of  this
  article.