§ 339 — The meeting for incorporation

New York § 339

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law RCO: Religious Corporations
• Art. 18: Churches of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church In America

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§ 339. The meeting for incorporation. 1. At the meeting for\nincorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, the qualified voters,\nuntil otherwise decided as hereinafter provided, shall be all persons of\nfull age, who are then members in good and regular standing of such\ncongregation by admission into full communion and membership therewith,\nin accordance with the rules and regulations thereof, and of the\ngoverning ecclesiastical body of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox\nChurch.\n 2. At such meeting, the presence of a majority of such qualified\nvoters, at least six in number, shall be necessary to constitute a\nquorum and all matters or questions shall be decided by a majority of\nthe qualified voters voting thereon.\n 3. The meeting shall be called to order by the first named of the\nfollowing persons who is present thereat, to wit: The minister in charge\nof such congregation, or the officiating minister thereat, or one of the\npersons qualified to sign the notice of the meeting for incorporation in\nthe order of their age beginning with the oldest.\n 4. There shall be elected at such meeting from the qualified voters\nthere present, a presiding officer, a clerk to keep the record of the\nproceedings of the meeting and two inspectors of election to receive the\nballots cast. The presiding officer and the inspector shall decide the\nresult of the ballots cast on any matter and shall be the judges of the\nqualifications of the voters, subject to appeal to the vote of the\nmembers present whose qualifications as voters are not challenged.\n 5. If the meeting shall decide that such congregation shall become an\nincorporated church, the meeting shall also decide upon the name of the\nproposed corporation, the number of laymen trustees thereof, which shall\nbe a multiple of three, and the date, not more than fifteen months\nthereafter, on which the first annual election of the laymen trustees\nthereof shall be held, and shall decide also whether those who, from the\ntime of the formation of such congregation or during the year preceding\nthe meeting for incorporation, have statedly worshipped with such\ncongregation and have regularly contributed to the financial support\nthereof, shall be qualified voters at such meeting for incorporation,\nand that those who during the year preceding the subsequent corporate\nmeetings of the church shall have statedly worshipped with such church\nand shall have regularly contributed to the financial support thereof,\nshall be qualified voters at such corporate meetings.\n 6. Such meetings shall thereupon elect by ballot from the persons\nqualified to vote thereat one-third of the number of trustees so decided\non, who shall hold office until the first annual election of trustees\nthereafter, and one-third of such number of trustees who shall hold\noffice until the second annual election for trustees thereafter, and\none-third of such number of trustees who shall hold office until the\nthird annual election thereafter, or until the respective successors of\nsuch trustees shall be elected.\n 7. Such meeting shall also elect by ballot a clerk of the corporation,\nwho shall hold office until the close of the next annual meeting.\n