2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 3 - (40 - 49) PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL PARISHES OR CHURCHES
40 - Meeting for incorporation.

 
    §  40.  Meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the purpose
  of  incorporating  an  unincorporated  Protestant  Episcopal  parish  or
  congregation,  and  of  electing  the  first churchwardens and vestrymen
  thereof, shall specify the object, time and place of such  meeting,  and
  shall  be  made  public  for  at  least two weeks prior to such meeting,
  either by open reading of such notice in time of divine service, at  the
  usual place of worship of such parish or congregation, or by posting the
  same  conspiciously  on  the  outer  door of such place of worship. Only
  persons of full age who have been regular attendants at the  worship  of
  such  parish or congregation and contributors to the support thereof for
  one year next prior to such meeting, or since the establishment of  such
  parish  or congregation, shall be qualified to vote at such meeting. The
  presence of at least six persons qualified  to  vote  thereat  shall  be
  necessary  to  constitute  a  quorum  of such meeting. The action of the
  meeting upon any matter or question shall be decided by  a  majority  of
  the  qualified  voters  voting  thereon,  a  quorum  being  present. The
  officiating minister, or if there be none, or he  shall  be  necessarily
  absent, any other person qualified to vote at the meeting, who is called
  to  the  chair,  shall  preside  thereat.  Such  presiding officer shall
  receive the votes, be the judge of the  qualifications  of  voters,  and
  declare  the  result of the votes cast at such meeting. The polls of the
  meeting shall remain open for one hour or longer, in the  discretion  of
  the  presiding  officer, or if required by a vote of the majority of the
  voters present. The meeting shall  decide  whether  such  unincorporated
  parish or congregation shall become incorporated. If such decision be in
  favor  of  incorporation, such meeting shall decide upon the name of the
  proposed corporation; what day, either a Sunday or a secular day,  shall
  be  the  date  of  the  regular  annual  election; whether the vestrymen
  thereof shall be three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one
  or twenty-four; and shall elect by ballot from the persons qualified  to
  be  voters  thereat,  who have been baptized, one-third of the number of
  vestrymen so decided upon to hold office until the first annual election
  to be held thereafter, one-third of such number, to  hold  office  until
  one  year  after  such  annual election, and one-third of such number to
  hold office until two years after such annual election; and shall  elect
  from  such  qualified  voters  who  are  communicants  in the Protestant
  Episcopal church, two persons to be churchwardens thereof, one  to  hold
  office until such annual election, and one to hold office until one year
  after such annual election.