2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 3-B - (50-AA - 50-MM) PARISHES OR CHURCHES OF THE HOLY ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA
50-FF - Annual and special corporate meetings.

 
    §  50-ff.  Annual  and  special  corporate  meetings.  1.  The  annual
  corporate meeting of every church  or  congregation  incorporated  under
  this  article  shall be held at the time and place fixed by its by-laws,
  or if no time and place is so fixed, then at a  time  and  place  to  be
  fixed  by its trustees, but to be changed only by a by-law adopted at an
  annual meeting; or if not otherwise fixed, such annual corporate meeting
  shall be  held  on  the  date  said  certificate  of  incorporation  was
  executed,  unless  the same fall due on a Sunday or legal holiday in any
  year, in which case said annual corporate meeting shall be held the  day
  following.
    2. A special corporate meeting of any such church may be called by the
  trustees  thereof,  on  their  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 its annual
  corporate meeting, and the names of any trustees whose successors are to
  be elected thereat, and if a special meeting,  of  the  business  to  be
  transacted  thereat,  to be publicly read by the minister of such church
  or any of the trustees thereof at a regular meeting of  the  church  for
  public worship, on the two successive Sundays immediately preceding such
  meeting.
    4.  The annual corporate meeting shall be governed with respect to its
  organization and election of laymen trustees, clerk of  the  corporation
  and  qualifications of voters (except with respect to age qualifications
  of voters as provided in section four-a) by the same provisions  as  set
  forth in this article for the incorporation of said church, except, that
  the duly ordained and regularly appointed rector or vicar shall preside,
  or  if  there  be  a  vacancy  in  such office, one of the wardens shall
  preside, the  congregation  in  such  case  voting  by  ballot  for  its
  presiding officer.
    5. The same provisions shall apply to a special corporate meeting.
    6.  At  the  annual  corporate  meeting the trustees shall cause to be
  prepared and read thereat a budget  giving  the  approximate  amount  of
  money  needed  for the maintenance of worship, the administration of the
  temporal affairs of the church and for the care  of  the  property,  and
  such  other  regular  and  special  items  as  shall  be  brought to the
  attention of the meeting, which budget shall be  discussed  and  decided
  upon,  ratified  or  amended  by the said meeting by majority vote, with
  ample provision made to raise such funds by whatever usages  the  church
  shall elect.