2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 9 - (180 - 183) FREE CHURCHES
182-A - Increasing number of trustees.

 
    §  182-a. Increasing number of trustees. The number of trustees may be
  increased to not exceeding eleven by said board of trustees at any legal
  meeting of the members, whereupon a certificate of such  increase  shall
  be  made, signed, acknowledged and filed by the existing trustees in the
  manner provided by section one hundred and eighty for the execution  and
  filing  of the certificate of incorporation, except that the consent and
  approbation of a justice of the supreme court shall not be necessary  to
  the  filing  of  such certificate. The additional trustees authorized by
  such increase shall be supplied in the same manner as vacancies  in  the
  original  board  of  trustees;  but  there  shall  always  be at least a
  majority of the board who are not ministers of the gospel or priests  of
  any denomination.