§ 130. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated Baptist church shall be given as follows: The notice shall be in writing, and shall state, in substance, that a meeting of such unincorporated church will be held at its usual place of worship at a specified […]
§ 131. The meeting for incorporation. At the meeting for incorporation, held in pursuance of such notice, the qualified voters, until otherwise decided as hereinafter provided, shall be all persons of full age, who are then members, in good and regular standing of such church, by admission into full communion or membership therewith. At such […]
§ 132. The certificate of incorporation. If the meeting shall decide that such unincorporated church shall become incorporated, the presiding officer of such meeting and the two inspectors of election shall execute a certificate setting forth the name of the proposed corporation, the number of the trustees thereof, the names of the persons elected as […]
§ 133. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings. The annual corporate meeting of every incorporated Baptist church shall be held at the time and place fixed by or in pursuance of law therefor, if such time and place be so fixed, and otherwise, at a time and place to be fixed by its trustees. […]
§ 134. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters thereat. At a corporate meeting of an incorporated Baptist church the qualified voters shall be all persons who are then members of such church in good and regular standing by admission into full communion or membership therewith, or who have statedly worshipped with such […]
§ 135. Changing date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate meeting of an incorporated Baptist church may change the date of its annual meeting thereafter. If the date fixed for the annual meeting shall be less than six months after the annual meeting at which such change is made, the next annual meeting shall […]
§ 136. Changing number of trustees. An incorporated Baptist church may, at an annual corporate meeting, change the number of its trustees to not less than three, nor more than eighteen, or classify them so that the terms of one-third expire each year, provided that notice of such intended change or classification be included in […]
§ 137. Meetings of trustees. Meetings of the trustees of an incorporated Baptist church shall be called by giving at least twenty-four hours’ notice thereof personally or by mail to all the trustees and such notice may be given by two of the trustees, but by the unanimous consent of the trustees a meeting may […]
§ 138. The creation and filling of vacancies among trustees of such churches. If any trustee of an incorporated Baptist church declines to act, resigns or dies, or having been a member or such church ceases to be such member, or not having been a member of such church, ceases to be a qualified voter […]
§ 139. Control of trustees by corporate meetings of such churches; salary of minister. The trustees of an incorporated Baptist church shall have no power to settle or remove a minister or to fix his salary or, without the consent of a corporate meeting, to incur debts beyond what is necessary for the administration of […]
§ 140. Transfer of property to Baptist corporations. Any incorporated Baptist church, created by or existing under the laws of the state of New York, having its principal office or place of worship in the state of New York, or whose last place of worship was within the state of New York, is hereby authorized […]
