New York Consolidated Laws, Religious Corporations Law - RCO § 205. Presiding officer

Nothing contained in this article shall prevent the qualified voters at any meeting held pursuant to this article or in this article described, from choosing a person to preside at any such meeting, other than the person or officer designated in this article to preside thereat, and when such other person shall be chosen he shall exercise all the powers in this article conferred upon the presiding officer of such meeting.