2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 8-A - (169-A - 169-E) CHURCHES OF THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHES OF AMERICA
169-B - Notice of meeting for incorporation and provisions governing meetings for incorporation.

 
    §  169-b. Notice of meeting for incorporation and provisions governing
  meetings for incorporation. 1. Notice of a meeting for  the  purpose  of
  incorporating  an  unincorporated Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Greek
  rite shall be in writing and shall state in substance that a meeting  of
  such unincorporated church will be held at its usual place of worship at
  a specified day and hour, for the purpose of incorporating such a church
  and selecting a name therefor and electing trustees thereof.
    2.  Such  notice  shall  be publicly read at a regular service of such
  unincorporated church on a Sunday next preceding such meeting and a copy
  of such notice shall be sent by mail postpaid at least ten days prior to
  the date fixed for such meeting to each member of such  church  in  good
  and  regular  standing  at his last known address as same appears in the
  church record.
    3. At the meeting for incorporation held in pursuance of such  notice,
  all  persons  of  full  age,  who  are  then members in good and regular
  standing of such  church,  shall  be  qualified  voters.  All  the  duly
  qualified  voters present at such meeting, at least six in number, shall
  constitute a quorum, and all matters or questions shall be decided by  a
  majority of the qualified voters voting thereon.
    4.  There  shall  be elected at such meeting from the qualified voters
  then present a presiding officer and a clerk to keep the records of  the
  proceedings  of  the  meeting.  The  presiding  officer shall decide the
  results of the votes cast on any matter and shall be the  judge  of  the
  qualifications of the voters.
    5.  If  the meeting shall decide that such unincorporated church shall
  become incorporated, the meeting shall also decide upon the name of  the
  proposed  corporation,  the  number  of  trustees thereof which shall be
  either three, five or seven, and the date, not more than fifteen  months
  thereafter,  on which the first annual election of the trustees shall be
  held.
    6. Such meeting shall thereupon elect from the  persons  qualified  to
  vote  thereat  the trustees who shall hold office until the first annual
  election of the trustees  thereafter,  or  until  their  successors  are
  elected and take office.