2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 18 - (336 - 352) CHURCHES OF THE BYELORUSSIAN AUTOCEPHALIC ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
339 - The meeting for incorporation.

 
    §   339.  The  meeting  for  incorporation.  1.  At  the  meeting  for
  incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, the  qualified  voters,
  until otherwise decided as hereinafter provided, shall be all persons of
  full  age,  who  are  then  members in good and regular standing of such
  congregation by admission into full communion and membership  therewith,
  in  accordance  with  the  rules  and  regulations  thereof,  and of the
  governing ecclesiastical body of the Byelorussian Autocephalic  Orthodox
  Church.
    2.  At  such  meeting,  the  presence  of a majority of such qualified
  voters, at least six 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.
    3. The meeting shall be called to order by  the  first  named  of  the
  following persons who is present thereat, to wit: The minister in charge
  of such congregation, or the officiating minister thereat, or one of the
  persons qualified to sign the notice of the meeting for incorporation in
  the order of their age beginning with the oldest.
    4.  There  shall  be elected at such meeting from the qualified voters
  there present, a presiding officer, a clerk to keep the  record  of  the
  proceedings of the meeting and two inspectors of election to receive the
  ballots  cast.  The presiding officer and the inspector shall decide the
  result of the ballots cast on any matter and shall be the judges of  the
  qualifications  of  the  voters,  subject  to  appeal to the vote of the
  members present whose qualifications as voters are not challenged.
    5. If the meeting shall decide that such congregation shall become  an
  incorporated  church, the meeting shall also decide upon the name of the
  proposed corporation, the number of laymen trustees thereof, which shall
  be a multiple of three, and the  date,  not  more  than  fifteen  months
  thereafter,  on  which  the first annual election of the laymen trustees
  thereof shall be held, and shall decide also whether those who, from the
  time of the formation of such congregation or during the year  preceding
  the  meeting  for  incorporation,  have  statedly  worshipped  with such
  congregation and have regularly contributed  to  the  financial  support
  thereof,  shall  be  qualified voters at such meeting for incorporation,
  and that those who during the year preceding  the  subsequent  corporate
  meetings  of  the church shall have statedly worshipped with such church
  and shall have regularly contributed to the financial  support  thereof,
  shall be qualified voters at such corporate meetings.
    6.  Such  meetings  shall  thereupon  elect by ballot from the persons
  qualified to vote thereat one-third of the number of trustees so decided
  on, who shall hold office until the first annual  election  of  trustees
  thereafter,  and  one-third  of  such  number of trustees who shall hold
  office until the second annual election  for  trustees  thereafter,  and
  one-third  of  such  number  of trustees who shall hold office until the
  third annual election thereafter, or until the respective successors  of
  such trustees shall be elected.
    7. Such meeting shall also elect by ballot a clerk of the corporation,
  who shall hold office until the close of the next annual meeting.