New York Consolidated Law|SECTION 225-G

                                                

  § 225-g. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated church may, at
its annual meeting where trustees are elected, by vote change the number
of its trustees to three, six or nine by adding more trustees, one-third
of which shall be elected for three years, one-third for two years, and
one-third for one year; or by voting to discontinue the offices of
certain specified trustees as they expire, one-third of said offices to
be discontinued each year, until the number left is the number decided
upon. Such changes in the board of trustees shall always provide that at
least two-thirds of the trustees shall be members in full connection of
the free Methodist church in good and regular standing. No such change
shall affect the terms of the trustees then in office, but each shall
hold office until his full term has expired, unless his office is
terminated according to section two hundred and twenty-five-h of this
article.