2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 6 - (110 - 116) REFORMED DUTCH, REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN AND LUTHERAN CHURCHES
114 - Reformed churches in America, changing system of choosing trustees; minister, how chosen.

 
    §  114.  Reformed  churches  in  America,  changing system of choosing
  trustees; minister, how chosen. If the  ministers,  elders  and  deacons
  who, at any time, by virtue of their offices, constitute the trustees of
  any  Reformed church in America, or of any true Reformed Dutch church in
  the United States of America, determine that the trustees of such church
  shall thereafter be  elective  in  pursuance  of  article  ten  of  this
  chapter,  and  shall determine whether the number of such trustees shall
  be three, six or nine, and the date of the annual corporate  meeting  of
  the  church,  they  may  sign,  acknowledge  and  cause  to be filed and
  recorded in the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  county  in  which  the
  certificate  of  incorporation  of  such  church is filed or recorded, a
  certificate of such determinations.  Thereafter  the  trustees  of  such
  church  shall  be elective in pursuance of the provisions of article ten
  of this chapter, relating to the election of  trustees  of  incorporated
  churches.  At the next annual corporate meeting after the filing of such
  certificate, one-third of the number of trustees so determined on  shall
  be  elected  to  hold  office  for one year, one-third for two years and
  one-third for three years, and the minister, elders  and  deacons  shall
  cease  to  be  the  trustees  of  such church. At each subsequent annual
  corporate meeting of such church, one-third of the number of trustees so
  determined on shall be elected to hold office for three  years.  If  the
  trustees  of  an  incorporated  Reformed  church in America or of a true
  Dutch Reformed church in the United States of America are  at  any  time
  elective, in pursuance of article ten of this chapter, or otherwise, the
  board  of trustees and the consistory thereof may concurrently determine
  that the minister or ministers, if any, and the elders  and  deacons  of
  such  church  shall  constitute  the  trustees  thereof.    Thereon  the
  president and clerk of the consistory and the president and clerk of the
  board of trustees shall sign and acknowledge and cause to be  filed  and
  recorded  in the office of the clerk of the county in which the original
  certificate of incorporation is filed or recorded, a certificate of such
  determination, stating the names of such ministers, elders and  deacons.
  On  so  filing  and  recording  such certificate, such board of trustees
  shall be dissolved, and  the  minister  or  ministers,  and  elders  and
  deacons  of such church, and their successors in office shall constitute
  the trustees of such church.