2023 New York Laws › BVO - Benevolent Orders › Article 2 - General Provisions › 8 - Trustees.

§ 8. Trustees.  The  persons  executing  such  certificate  and  named
  therein, shall be the board of trustees of such corporation. If but  two
  bodies  unite  to  form  such corporation, its by-laws may prescribe the
  terms of office of the trustees. If more than two bodies so  unite,  the
  trustees  shall  divide  themselves  by  lot  into  three  classes,  not
  including,  however,  the  president,  vice-president,   secretary   and
  treasurer,  if  such  officer  shall  have  been  elected as provided in
  section seven hereof, who shall be one year trustees, so that  the  term
  of  office  of  the  first  class  shall expire in one year; the term of
  office of the second class, in two years; and the term of office of  the
  third  class,  in  three years; provided, however, that no trustee shall
  continue as such after he has ceased to be a representative.
On a vacancy occurring in the office of a trustee of such corporation,
  the body which he represented shall  fill  such  vacancy,  provided  the
  bodies  uniting to form such corporation do not exceed thirty in number,
  and the person so chosen shall hold office for three years, if chosen on
  the expiration of the term of his predecessor, and otherwise, until  the
  expiration of the original term.
But  if  the  bodies uniting to form such corporation exceed thirty in
  number, then any vacancy occurring by reason of the expiration of a term
  or by failure of any trustee to be re-elected as a representative, shall
  be filled for three years or for the balance of the unexpired  term,  as
  the  case  may  be,  by  the  representatives in annual session; and any
  vacancy occurring otherwise than as above  specified,  shall  be  filled
  until  the  next  annual meeting of the representatives by the body that
  has lost representation by reason of  the  vacancy,  when  it  shall  be
  filled  by said representatives for the remainder of the unexpired term.
  If the bodies uniting to form such corporation exceed thirty in  number,
  then  the  representatives,  but  if less than thirty in number then the
  board of trustees, may admit or prescribe rules and regulations for  the
  admission  as  members  of such corporation of other bodies chartered or
  instituted by the same general governing body as any of the bodies named
  in such certificate, or  by  any  superior  or  higher  jurisdiction  or
  governing  body of the order to which any of such bodies belong, and may
  prescribe  rules  and  regulations  for  the  withdrawal,  expulsion  or
  suspension of any body or bodies having membership in such corporation.
Where the bodies uniting to form such corporation do not exceed thirty
  in  number,  the  board of trustees shall fix the term of office of such
  trustees elected to represent new members of such  corporation  at  one,
  two  or  three  years,  and shall so apportion such new trustees that as
  nearly as possible the terms of office of one-third of the  trustees  of
  such corporation shall expire annually.
Where   the   organizations   so  united  are  trades  unions,  trades
  assemblies, trades associations or labor  organizations,  the  board  of
  trustees  may,  from  time to time, admit as members of such corporation
  and of such board of trustees the representatives of any other labor  or
  trade  organization  or association whether or not the same be chartered
  or instituted by the same general governing body as any  of  the  bodies
  named  in such certificate, or by any superior or higher jurisdiction or
  governing body of the order to which such bodies belong.  The  board  of
  trustees  admitting such members shall file in the county clerk's office
  a certificate showing such action, and the terms of the  representatives
  so  admitted  shall  be  fixed  as  above  provided in the case of other
  organizations.
Every  corporation  formed  under  this  chapter  must  file  annually
  immediately  after  its  annual  meeting,  in  the clerk's office of the
  county where such building is or is to be located, a certificate  giving
  the names and addresses of the principal officers of the corporation and

  the names and addresses of the members of the board of trustees, and the
  names  and  location  of all bodies admitted to or withdrawn or expelled
  from membership since the filing of the last preceding certificate.  And
  the  several bodies comprising such corporation may by a two-thirds vote
  of all the members present at any regular  or  special  meeting,  notice
  whereof  has  been  duly  given according to the constitution, rules and
  regulations of such body, adopt by-laws, rules and regulations  for  the
  management  and  government  of such hall, temple, or other building not
  inconsistent with the laws of the state  or  the  constitution,  general
  rules  or laws of the grand lodge or other governing body to which it is
  subordinate and may therein provide for the disposition of the  revenues
  arising  therefrom  and may in such by-laws, rules and regulations limit
  and define the purposes and uses to which  the  net  revenue  from  said
  hall, temple or other building shall be applied, and when the same shall
  be  concurred  in  by  all of said bodies, they shall be binding on said
  corporation and thereafter said net  income  shall  not  be  devoted  or
  applied to any other purpose.