New York Laws
Article 3 - Protestant Episcopal Parishes or Churches
44 - Changing the Number of Vestrymen of Protestant Episcopal Parishes Hereafter Incorporated.

§ 44. Changing the number of vestrymen of Protestant Episcopal
parishes hereafter incorporated. If the vestry of a Protestant Episcopal
parish, hereafter incorporated, shall, by resolution, recommend that the
number of vestrymen of such parish be changed to either three, six,
nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four vestrymen,
notice of such recommendation shall be included in the notice of the
next annual election of such parish, or in the notice of a special
meeting to be held not less than six months before the time fixed for
holding the next annual election thereafter, and be submitted to such
annual or special meeting. If such recommendation be ratified by such
meeting, the presiding officer thereof, and at least two qualified
voters present thereat, shall execute and acknowledge a certificate
setting forth such resolution of the vestry, the fact that notice
thereof had been given with the notice of such annual election, or with
the notice of such special meeting as the case may be; that the meeting
had ratified the same; and the number of vestrymen so decided on. Such
certificate shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in
which the original certificate of incorporation is filed and recorded,
and such change in the number of vestrymen shall take effect at the time
of the next annual election thereafter. If the number of vestrymen be
thereby increased, then, in addition to the number of vestrymen to be
elected at such annual election, one-third of such increased number of
vestrymen shall be elected to hold office for one year thereafter,
one-third of such increased number shall be elected to hold office for
two years thereafter, and one-third of such increased number shall be
elected to hold office for three years thereafter. If the number of
vestrymen by such change be reduced, such reduction shall not affect the
term of office of any vestryman duly elected, and at such next annual
election and at each annual election thereafter, one-third of such
reduced number of vestrymen shall be elected to hold office for three
years.

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