New York Religious Corporations Law Section 197 - Changing number of trustees.

  197.  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, twelve, fifteen,
  eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four, or classify them so that the  terms
  of  one-third expire each year. No such change shall affect the terms of
  the trustees then in office, and if the change  reduces  the  number  of
  trustees,  it  shall  not take effect until the number of trustees whose
  terms of office continue for one or more years after an annual  election
  is  less  than the number determined on. Whenever the number of trustees
  so holding over is less than the number so determined on, trustees shall
  be elected in addition to those so holding over, sufficient to make  the
  number  of  trustees  for  the  ensuing  year  equal  to  the  number so
  determined on. The trustees so elected up to and including one-third  of
  the  number  so  determined  on,  shall  be elected for three years, the
  remainder up to and including one-third of the number so  determined  on
  for two years, and the remainder for one year.

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