New York Laws
Article 10 - Other Denominations
199 - Vacancies Among Trustees.

ยง 199. Vacancies among trustees. If any trustee of an incorporated
church to which this article is applicable, declines to act, resigns or
dies, or having been a member of such church, ceases to be such member,
or not having been a member of such church, 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, at which meeting the vacancy
shall be filled for the unexpired term.