2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 4 - (60 - 70) PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
66 - Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters thereat.

 
    §  66.  Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications
  of voters thereat. 1. At a corporate meeting of an  incorporated  church
  to  which this article is applicable the following persons and no others
  shall be qualified voters, to wit: All persons who are then  members  in
  good  and  regular  standing  of  such  church  by  admission  into full
  communion and membership therewith, in accordance with the  constitution
  of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
    2.  The presence at any corporate meeting of an incorporated church of
  at least six communicant members of  full  age  shall  be  necessary  to
  constitute  a  quorum.  The  action  of  the  meeting upon any matter or
  question shall be decided by a majority of the qualified voters present.
    3. At any corporate meeting of an incorporated church  to  which  this
  article  is  applicable,  the  pastor  of  such  church, the officiating
  minister thereof, or the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  shall
  preside thereat.
    4.  Nothing  contained  in  this  article  shall prevent the qualified
  voters at any meeting held pursuant to  this  article  from  choosing  a
  person  to  preside at any corporate meeting of any incorporated church,
  other than the person or officer designated in this article  to  preside
  thereat,  and  when  such other person shall be chosen he shall exercise
  all the powers in this article conferred upon the presiding  officer  of
  such meeting.
    5.  The  presiding  officer  of  a corporate meeting shall receive the
  votes, be the judge of the qualifications of  voters,  and  declare  the
  result of the votes cast on any matter. The polls of an annual corporate
  meeting  shall  continue  open  until all qualified voters present shall
  have had a full opportunity to vote.
    6. At each annual corporate meeting successors to those trustees whose
  terms of office then expire shall be elected from the  qualified  voters
  by  ballot  for  a  term  of  three years thereafter. The nomination and
  election of trustees shall be conducted as provided in the  constitution
  of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).