STATE OF NEW YORK
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6653
IN SENATE
January 22, 2010
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the religious corporations law, in relation to the annu-
al election of the trustees of a free Methodist church
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 225-f of the religious corpo-
2 rations law, as amended by chapter 201 of the laws of 1971, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 1. Trustees of an incorporated free Methodist church shall be elected
5 at the annual society meeting [held within three months prior to the
6 session of the annual conference to which the society belongs]. Notice
7 of such meeting shall be publicly announced at a regular meeting of such
8 incorporated church for public worship upon Sunday, if such service be
9 held on Sunday, and at least ten days, and not more than thirty days,
10 before said meeting shall be held. This notice shall be given by the
11 pastor, the officiating minister or an officer of the church. At the
12 said annual society meeting the pastor shall preside, or in the absence
13 of a pastor or in case of his declining, any qualified voter therein may
14 be elected to preside. During the election of the trustees the following
15 persons, and no others, shall be qualified voters, to wit: all persons
16 who are then members in full connection or on probation of such church
17 in good and regular standing. Said election shall be by ballot and on a
18 majority vote, and at least six persons qualified to vote thereat shall
19 be necessary to constitute a quorum. The trustees shall be so elected
20 that the office of one-third of them shall continue for three years,
21 one-third for two years, and one-third for one year. At least two-thirds
22 of said trustees shall be members in full connection of the free Metho-
23 dist church in good and regular standing. All trustees shall hold their
24 office until their successors are elected, unless their office shall
25 terminate as provided for in section two hundred [and] twenty-five-h of
26 this article.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14043-01-9
