New York Religious Corporations Law Article 4 - PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES

• 60 - Application of This Article.
  This article applies only to a Presbyterian church in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
• 61 - Creation and Termination of Pastoral Relation.
  The election, calling, settlement, installation, dismissal, removal, translation, constituting or dissolving of the pastoral relation, or fixing or changing of the salary of a minister...
• 62 - Worship.
  Nothing in this chapter contained shall authorize the fixing or changing of the times, nature or order of public worship of any particular Presbyterian church...
• 63 - Incorporation of Unincorporated Presbyterian Churches and Decision As to System of Incorporation and Government.
  A meeting for the purpose of incorporation of an unincorporated Presbyterian church in connection with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), must be called and held in...
• 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...
• 65 - Corporate Meetings.
  1. In every incorporated church to which this article applies and in which the trustees thereof as such are elective, there shall be held an...
• 66 - Organization and Conduct of Corporate Meetings; Qualifications of Voters Thereat.
  1. At a corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable the following persons and no others shall be qualified voters,...
• 67 - Changing Date of Annual Corporate Meetings.
  An annual corporate meeting of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable, may change the date of its annual meeting thereafter. If such...
• 68 - Changing Number of Trustees.
  An incorporated church to which this article is applicable, may, at an annual corporate meeting, change the number of its trustees to three, six, nine,...
• 69 - Trustees, Their Meetings, Vacancies and Filling Thereof, Their Powers.
  1. Two trustees of an incorporated church, to which this article is applicable, may call a meeting of such trustees by giving at least twenty-four...
• 70 - Definitions.
  The words "spiritual officers," as used in this article, include the pastor or pastors, the ruling elders, and the deacons, of any church to which...

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