2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 18 - (336 - 352) CHURCHES OF THE BYELORUSSIAN AUTOCEPHALIC ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
348 - Meetings of trustees.

 
    §  348.  Meetings  of  trustees.  1.  Meetings  of  the trustees of an
  incorporated church to which this article is applicable may be  held  at
  stated  intervals,  or  shall  be called by the chairman of the board of
  trustees on his own motion, or upon request  of  one  of  the  clergymen
  trustees  or  any  two  of  the  laymen  trustees  by  giving  at  least
  twenty-four hours notice thereof personally or by mail to all  trustees,
  but  by  the  unanimous  consent  of  the trustees a meeting may be held
  without previous notice thereof.
    2. To duly constitute such regular or special meeting of the  trustees
  for the transaction of business, at any meeting lawfully convened, there
  shall  be  present a majority of the laymen trustees, the archbishop, or
  bishop, who is administrator of the Byelorussian  Autocephalic  Orthodox
  Church  in  America, the rector of the church, unless there is no rector
  at that time, or he shall be necessarily absent, and the  clerk  of  the
  corporation.  If  the  archbishop,  or bishop, cannot be present, he may
  send his proxy to one of the laymen trustees.
    3. The chairman of the board of trustees shall preside or if he  shall
  be necessarily absent, the rector shall preside at the meeting.
    4. No act or procedure other than regular routine matters in regard to
  the  administration  of  the  temporal affairs of the church and for the
  care of the property of the  corporation,  as  included  in  the  budget
  items, shall be valid without the sanction of the archbishop, or bishop,
  who is administrator of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in
  America.
    5.  The effect of a tie vote creating a deadlock shall be to carry the
  question involved (with all pending questions appertaining thereto) over
  to the next meeting of the board. In case of such a  deadlock  extending
  beyond  three  successive  meetings  of the board of trustees, the whole
  matter involved shall be settled in a meeting of the corporate society.