New York Consolidated Law|SECTION 225-F

                                                

  § 225-f. Annual election of trustees. 1. Trustees of an incorporated
free Methodist church shall be elected at the annual society meeting
held within three months prior to the session of the annual conference
to which the society belongs.  Notice of such meeting shall be publicly
announced at a regular meeting of such incorporated church for public
worship upon Sunday, if such service be held on Sunday, and at least ten
days, and not more than thirty days, before said meeting shall be held.
This notice shall be given by the pastor, the officiating minister or an
officer of the church. At the said annual society meeting the pastor
shall preside, or in the absence of a pastor or in case of his
declining, any qualified voter therein may be elected to preside. During
the election of the trustees the following persons, and no others, shall
be qualified voters, to wit: all persons who are then members in full
connection or on probation of such church in good and regular standing.
Said election shall be by ballot and on a majority vote, and at least
six persons qualified to vote thereat shall be necessary to constitute a
quorum. The trustees shall be so elected that the office of one-third of
them shall continue for three years, one-third for two years, and
one-third for one year. At least two-thirds of said trustees shall be
members in full connection of the free Methodist church in good and
regular standing. All trustees shall hold their office until their
successors are elected, unless their office shall terminate as provided
for in section two hundred and twenty-five-h of this article.

2. A special corporate meeting of any such church may be called by the
trustees thereof on their own motion, and must be called upon the
written request of at least six qualified voters of such church, and
shall be called and notice thereof given in the same manner as for an
annual corporate meeting.