NY Rel Corps L § 64 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 4 - Presbyterian Churches 64 - Changing System of Trustees.

§  64.  Changing  system  of  trustees.  1.  If  the  trustees  of  an   incorporated Presbyterian church in  connection  with  the  Presbyterian   Church  (U.S.A.)  shall  at  any  time  be  elective as trustees and not   trustees by virtue of being spiritual officers, the church  may,  at  an   annual  corporate  meeting if notice thereof be given with the notice of   such meeting, determine that  the  board  of  deacons  thereof,  or  the   session  with the board of deacons thereof, or the session thereof shall   thereafter constitute the trustees thereof, and thereupon the  presiding   officer  of  such meeting and at least two other persons present thereat   shall sign, acknowledge and cause to be filed and recorded a certificate   stating the fact of  such  determination,  the  names  of  the  officers   determined  upon  to  be the ex officio trustees thereof and thereon the   terms of office of such elective trustees shall cease, and the  officers   determined upon by such corporate meeting and their successors in office   shall,  by  virtue  of their respective offices, be the trustees of such   church.2. If,  at  any  time,  the  spiritual  officers  of  an  incorporated   Presbyterian church in connection with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.),   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  as  such  trustees,  they  shall  cause  a  special   corporate  meeting  of  such  church to be called and held in the manner   provided in section sixty-five  of  this  chapter,  and  such  corporate   meeting  shall  determine  whether  the  trustees  of  such church shall   thereafter be elective in pursuance of this article and also whether the   number of such trustees shall be  three,  six,  nine,  twelve,  fifteen,   eighteen,  twenty-one,  or  twenty-four  and  the  date  of  the  annual   corporate meeting of the church. If such meeting  shall  determine  that   such  trustees shall thereafter be elective as such trustees, the number   of such trustees and the date of the first annual corporate  meeting  of   the church, 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;  thereafter the trustees of such   church shall be elective in pursuance of this  article.    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,  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  the  trustees  of  such church and their successors shall be   elective  as  such  trustees  as  in  this  article  provided.  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. The nomination and election of trustees shall be conducted   as provided in the constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).