2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 18 - (336 - 352) CHURCHES OF THE BYELORUSSIAN AUTOCEPHALIC ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
343 - Time, place and notice of corporate meetings.


NY Rel Corps L § 343 (2012) What's This?
 
    §  343.  Time,  place  and notice of corporate meetings. 1. The annual
  corporate meeting of every church incorporated under this article  shall
  be  held  at  the time and place fixed by its by-laws, or if no time and
  place be so fixed, then at a time and place to be  first  fixed  by  its
  trustees,  but  to  be  changed  only  by  a by-law adopted at an annual
  meeting.
    2. A special corporate meeting of any such church may be called by the
  board of trustees thereof, on its own motion, and shall be called on the
  written request of at least ten qualified voters of such church.
    3. The trustees shall cause notice of  the  time  and  place  of  such
  annual  corporate meeting, therein specifying the names of any trustees,
  whose successors are to be  elected  thereat  and  the  business  to  be
  transacted thereat, and, if a special meeting, specifying business to be
  transacted  thereat,  to  be  publicly  read  at  two successive regular
  meetings for public worship or at special meetings of such church on the
  two Sundays  immediately  preceding  the  annual  or  special  corporate
  meeting,  by  the  rector  of  such  church or if there be none or he be
  necessarily absent, by the officiating minister  thereof,  if  there  be
  one,  or  if not, or if any such minister refuse to give such notice, by
  any officer of such church. If no public worship  be  held  during  said
  period,  or  if it be the notice of special corporate meeting, a copy of
  such notice shall be posted conspicuously on the  outside  of  the  main
  entrance  to  the  usual  or principal place of worship at least fifteen
  days before such meeting and a copy of such notice shall be sent by mail
  postpaid at least ten days prior to the date set  for  such  meeting  to
  each  member  of  such  church in good and regular standing 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,  and  who  has  been
  stated  attendant  at  divine  worship  in such church and has regularly
  contributed to the  financial  support  thereof  during  the  year  next
  preceding such meeting, at his last known address as same appears in the
  records of the church.

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