2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 3-A - (50 - 59-B) APOSTOLIC EPISCOPAL PARISHES OR CHURCHES
57 - Changing number of laymen trustees.

 
    §  57.  Changing  number of laymen trustees. An incorporated church to
  which this article is applicable may, by a majority  vote  of  the  duly
  qualified  voters  at  an annual corporate meeting, change the number of
  its laymen trustees to three, six or nine, and classify them so that the
  terms of one-third of such number so changed expire each year.  No  such
  change shall affect the terms of the laymen trustees then in office, and
  if  the  change reduces the number of laymen trustees, it shall not take
  effect until the  number  of  laymen  trustees  whose  terms  of  office
  continue  for one or more years after an annual election of trustees, is
  less than the number determined upon.  Whenever  the  number  of  laymen
  trustees  so  holding  over  is  less  than  the  number  so determined,
  sufficient laymen trustees shall be elected, in  addition  to  those  so
  holding over, to make the number of laymen trustees for the ensuing year
  equal  to the number so determined. The laymen trustees so elected up to
  and including one-third of the number so determined  shall  hold  office
  for  a  term of three years, the remainder up to and including one-third
  of the number so determined, for two years and the  remainder,  for  one
  year.