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-HH - Changing number of laymen trustees.

 
    § 50-hh. 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.