2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 9-A - (184 - 189-C) Churches of Christ, Scientist
189 - Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters thereat.

 
    §  189. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications
  of voters thereat. At a corporate meeting of every  incorporated  church
  or  society  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 or society by
  admission into full membership therewith. The presence at such  meetings
  of  at least six persons qualified to vote thereat shall be necessary to
  constitute a quorum, provided that any church or society to  which  this
  article  is  applicable  may  by  its  by-laws fix the number of members
  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 voting thereon, a quorum being present, except that  by-laws  may
  provide  specifically for action being taken upon any matter or question
  by more than a majority vote, in  which  event  such  by-law  provisions
  shall  govern  any such action; and further excepted that by-laws can be
  adopted or amended only by a two-thirds vote, as  hereinbefore  provided
  by  this  chapter.  The  clerk  of  the church or society shall call the
  meeting to order, and then turn it over to a presiding officer chosen by
  the qualified voters then present or to the  one  designated  under  the
  provisions  of  the  by-laws;  and  if an election is to be held at such
  meeting, two inspectors of election shall be  chosen  by  the  qualified
  voters then present, unless otherwise designated under the provisions of
  the  by-laws. The presiding officer and the inspectors of election shall
  receive the votes, shall be the judges of the qualifications  of  voters
  and shall decide the result of the votes cast at any election. The polls
  of an annual corporate meeting shall remain open for such time as may be
  determined by a majority of the qualified voters present. 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, and  until  their  successors  shall  be
  elected and take office.