NY Rel Corps L § 47 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 3 - Protestant Episcopal Parishes or Churches 47 - Free Churches in Communion With the Protestant Episcopal Church.

§ 47. Free churches in communion with the Protestant Episcopal church.   Whenever  the  trustees  of  any  free  church  in  communion  with  the   Protestant Episcopal church heretofore or hereafter organized under  the   provisions  of  article  nine  of  this  act  shall desire to change the   management of its affairs and the form of government of the  corporation   by  substituting  a vestry in place of such trustees, such change may be   made in the following manner: The trustees of  any  free  church  having   first  obtained  the  written consent of the ecclesiastical authority of   the diocese to such change may by an affirmative vote of not  less  than   two-thirds   determine  by  resolution  reciting  the  consent  of  such   ecclesiastical authority and duly recorded in the minutes of such church   to change the management of its affairs  by  substituting  a  vestry  in   place  of  such  trustees  to manage the affairs of such corporation and   free church with the same powers,  duties  and  privileges  as  are  now   possessed  and  exercised  by churchwardens and vestrymen in churches of   the Protestant  Episcopal  church  organized  under  this  article,  but   subject  to  the  provisions  of section one hundred and eighty-three of   this chapter and for the  purposes  set  forth  in  the  certificate  of   incorporation  of  such  free  church  and  for  no other purposes; such   resolution shall fix the day, either a Sunday or  a  secular  day,  upon   which  the  annual election shall be held, the number to constitute such   vestry which shall be two churchwardens and  either  three,  six,  nine,   twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four vestrymen as may be   determined,   and   shall   also   designate  the  persons  to  be  such   churchwardens, and vestrymen, to act  until  the  annual  election,  and   copies  of such resolution, together with a statement of the vote of the   trustees adopting the same certified under the seal of  the  corporation   and  verified  by the president and secretary thereof, shall be filed in   the office of the secretary of state and also in the office of the clerk   of the county in which such church or corporation is located.  Upon  and   after  the  filing  of such certificate, the churchwardens and vestrymen   named in said resolution and their successors in office,  together  with   the rector when there shall thereafter be one, shall form the vestry and   shall  be  the  vestry  and shall constitute the corporation; and at the   first annual election the churchwardens and vestrymen shall  be  divided   into  classes  and  their  respective terms of office fixed and shall be   elected by the persons qualified  to  vote  for  the  churchwardens  and   vestrymen  in  churches  or  congregations  of  the Protestant Episcopal   church and the provisions of this article shall govern such election and   all future elections and  all  acts  of  such  vestry,  subject  to  the   provisions of section one hundred and eighty-three of this chapter.