2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 8-B - (175 - 179) CHURCHES OF THE HOLY UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALIC ORTHODOX CHURCH IN EXILE
176 - Notice of meeting for incorporation and provisions governing meetings for incorporation.

 
    §  176.  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 under this
  article 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.