NY Rel Corps L § 116 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 6 - Reformed Dutch, Reformed Presbyterian and Lutheran Churches 116 - Evangelical Lutheran Church, Changing System of Electing Trustees.

§  116.  Evangelical  Lutheran  church,  changing  system  of electing   trustees. If the trustees of an incorporated Evangelical Lutheran church   shall at any time be elective  in  pursuance  of  article  ten  of  this   chapter,  the  church  may,  at  an  annual corporate meeting, if notice   thereof be given with the notice of  such  meeting  determine  that  the   minister  or  ministers  and elders and deacons thereof shall thereafter   constitute the trustees thereof, and thereon the trustees of such church   shall  sign,  acknowledge  and  cause  to  be  filed  and  recorded,   a   certificate  stating the fact of such determination, and the name of the   minister or ministers, if any, and of the elders  and  deacons  of  such   church;  and thereon the terms of office of such elective trustees shall   cease, and the minister or ministers and the elders and deacons of  such   church,  and  their  successors  in  office  shall,  by  virtue of their   respective offices, be the trustees of such church. If, at any time, the   officers of an incorporated Evangelical Lutheran church  which  officers   by  virtue  of  their  offices  constitute  the  trustees  thereof shall   determine to submit  to  a  meeting  of  such  church  corporation,  the   question  whether  the  trustees  of  such  church  shall  be thereafter   elective in pursuance of article ten of this chapter, they shall cause a   corporate meeting of such church to be called and  held  in  the  manner   provided  in  sections  one  hundred and ninety-four and one hundred and   ninety-five of this chapter, and such corporate meeting shall  determine   whether  the  trustees  of  such  church shall thereafter be elective in   pursuance of article ten of this chapter, and also whether the number of   such trustees shall be three, six or nine, and the date  of  the  annual   corporate  meeting  of  the church. If such meeting shall determine that   such trustees  shall  thereafter  be  elective,  the  presiding  officer   thereof and at least two other persons present and voting thereat, shall   sign,  acknowledge  and  cause to be filed and recorded in the office of   the clerk of the county in which the  certificate  of  incorporation  of   such  church  is  filed,  a  certificate  of  such determination of such   meeting; and thereafter the trustees of such church shall be elective in   pursuance of article ten of this chapter. At the next  annual  corporate   meeting after the filing of such certificate, one-third of the number of   trustees  so determined on shall be elected to hold office for one year,   one-third for two years, and one-third for three years, and the officers   of such church who by virtue of their offices have been trustees of such   church, shall then cease to be such trustees, and thereafter article ten   of this chapter shall apply to such church. At  each  subsequent  annual   corporate meeting of such church, one-third of the number of trustees so   determined on shall be elected to hold office for three years.