§ 160. Notice of meeting for incorporation. Notice of a meeting for the purpose of incorporating an unincorporated church of the United Church of Christ or Independent 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 […]
§ 161. 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 have statedly worshiped with such church and have regularly contributed to its support, according to its usages, for at least one […]
§ 162. 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 trustees thereof, the names of the persons elected as trustees, […]
§ 163. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings. The annual corporate meeting of every church incorporated under this article shall be held at the time and place fixed by its by-laws, or if no time and place be so fixed, then at a time and place to be first fixed by its trustees, but […]
§ 164. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters. At every corporate meeting of a church to which this article is applicable the following persons, and no others shall be qualified voters, to wit: all persons who are then members in good and regular standing of such church by admission into full communion […]
§ 165. Changing date of annual corporate meetings. An annual corporate meeting of any church incorporated under this article may change the date of its subsequent annual meetings. 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 […]
§ 166. Changing number of trustees. Any such incorporated church may, at an annual corporate meeting, change the number of its trustees to three, six, nine, twelve or fifteen, classifying them so that the terms of one-third expire each year, provided that notice of such intended change be included in the notice of such annual […]
§ 167. Meetings of trustees. Meetings of the trustees of any such incorporated 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 […]
§ 168. Vacancies among trustees. If any trustee of any such incorporated church declines to act, resigns or dies, or ceases to be a qualified voter at a corporate meeting thereof, his office shall be vacant; and such vacancy may be filled by the remaining trustees until the next annual corporate meeting of such church; […]
§ 169. Limitation of powers of trustees. The trustees of any such incorporated church shall have no power to call, settle or remove a minister or to fix his salary, nor without the consent of a corporate meeting, to incur debts, beyond what is necessary for the administration of the temporal affairs of the church […]
§ 170. Election and salary of ministers. The ministers of any such church shall be called, settled or removed and their salaries fixed, only by the vote of a majority of the members of such corporation duly qualified to vote at elections present and voting at a meeting of such corporation specially called for that […]
§ 171. Transfer of property. Any incorporated church of the United Church of Christ and any incorporated Congregational Christian church which is a member of the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ, created by or existing under the laws of the state of New York, having its principal office or place of […]
§ 172. Application of this article. This article applies only to churches of the United Church of Christ, Congregational Christian churches, whether or not part of the United Church of Christ, and Independent churches.
