NY Rel Corps L § 45 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3 - Protestant Episcopal Parishes or Churches 45 - Changing Date of Annual Election, Number and Terms of Office of Vestrymen and Terms of Office of Churchwardens in Protestant Episcopal Churches Hereto

§  45. Changing date of annual election, number and terms of office of   vestrymen and terms of office of churchwardens in  Protestant  Episcopal   churches   heretofore  incorporated.  If  the  vestry  of  a  Protestant   Episcopal  parish,  heretofore  incorporated,   shall   by   resolution,   recommend  that  the  date  of the annual election be changed to another   day, either a Sunday or a secular day, or that the number  of  vestrymen   be changed to three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one or   twenty-four,  and  that  the  terms  of  office  of the churchwardens be   changed so that one warden shall be elected  annually,  notice  of  such   recommendation  shall  be  included  in  the  notice  of the next annual   election of such parish, or in the notice of a  special  meeting  to  be   held not less than six months before the time fixed for holding the next   annual  election  thereafter, and be submitted to such annual or special   meeting. If  such  recommendation  be  ratified  by  such  meeting,  the   presiding  officer  thereof  and  at  least two qualified voters present   thereat, shall execute and acknowledge a certificate setting forth  such   resolution  of  the  vestry; the fact that notice thereof had been given   with the notice of the annual  election,  or  with  the  notice  of  the   special  meeting, as the case may be; that such meeting had ratified the   same; the date determined upon for the annual election  of  the  parish;   the  number  of  vestrymen  so decided on; and the fact that the meeting   determined to thereafter elect churchwardens, so that the  term  of  one   warden  shall  expire  annually.  Such certificate shall be filed in the   office of the clerk of the county in which the original  certificate  of   incorporation  is filed and recorded. If the meeting determine to change   the date of the annual election, the next annual election shall be  held   on the day determined on at such meeting, and the terms of the vestrymen   and  churchwardens  which,  pursuant  to  law,  would expire at the next   annual election shall expire and their successors shall  be  elected  on   such day. If the meeting determine to change the number of vestrymen and   manner  of electing wardens and vestrymen, there shall be elected at the   first annual election thereafter, one-third of the number  of  vestrymen   so  determined  on, to hold office for three years; one-third thereof to   hold office for two years; and one-third thereof to hold office for  one   year;  and one churchwarden to hold office for one year, and one to hold   for two years; and thereafter at the  annual  election  there  shall  be   elected  one-third  of  the  number  of  vestrymen determined on at such   meeting  and  one  churchwarden.  Any   Protestant   Episcopal   parish,   heretofore  incorporated,  which has changed the number of its vestrymen   and the manner  of  electing  wardens  and  vestrymen  pursuant  to  the   provisions  of  this  section, may make further changes in the number of   its vestrymen in the manner  provided  in  section  forty-four  of  this   chapter.