2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 13 - (262 - 272) Spiritualist Churches.
264 - (Enacted without section heading).

 
    * §  264.  At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance to such
  notice, the qualified voters unless  otherwise  decided  as  hereinafter
  provided  shall all be persons of full age who have worshipped with such
  church, and have regularly contributed to its support according  to  its
  usages,  for  at  least one year or since it was formed, and who have in
  good faith in open meeting expressed their belief in the tenets of faith
  adopted by the General Assembly of Spiritualists. At  such  meeting  the
  presence  of  a  majority  of  such  qualified voters, at least seven in
  number, shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, and  all  matters  or
  questions  shall be decided by a majority of the qualified voters voting
  thereon. The meeting shall be called to order by a person  delegated  so
  to  do  by the president of the General Assembly of Spiritualists. There
  shall be elected at such meeting, from the qualified voters then present
  a presiding officer, a clerk to keep the records of the  proceedings  of
  the  meeting and two inspectors of election to receive the ballots cast.
  The presiding officer and the inspectors shall decide the result of  the
  ballots   cast   on   any  matter,  and  shall  be  the  judges  of  the
  qualifications of the voters. If the  meeting  shall  decide  that  such
  unincorporated  church shall become incorporated, the meeting shall also
  decide upon the name of the proposed  corporation,  the  number  of  the
  trustees  thereof,  which shall be three, six or nine, and the date, not
  more than fifteen months thereafter, on which the first annual  election
  of the trustees thereof shall be held; and it may, by a two-thirds vote,
  decide  that  all  members of the unincorporated church, of full age, in
  good and regular standing, who have worshipped with such church but  who
  have  not  contributed  to  the financial support thereof, shall also be
  qualified voters at such meeting. Such meeting shall thereupon elect  by
  ballot  from  the  persons  qualified  to vote thereat, of the number of
  trustees so decided on who shall hold  office  until  the  first  annual
  election  of  trustees  thereafter, one-third of such number of trustees
  who shall hold office until  the  second  annual  election  of  trustees
  thereafter,  and  one-third  of  such  number of trustees who shall hold
  office until the third annual election of trustees thereafter, or  until
  the  respective  successors  of  such  trustees  shall  be elected. Such
  meeting shall  also  elect  by  ballot  a  clerk  or  secretary  of  the
  corporation,  who  shall  hold  his  office  until the close of the next
  annual meeting.
    * NB Enacted without section heading.