2023 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.