Bill Text: NY A10760 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Eliminates the time period during which a free Methodist church must hold its annual election of trustees.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-04-20 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A10760 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A10760-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10760
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 20, 2010
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       Introduced  by M. of A. PARMENT, GIGLIO -- read once and referred 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    S 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
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