New York Consolidated Laws, Religious Corporations Law - RCO § 348. Meetings of trustees

1. Meetings of the trustees of an incorporated church to which this article is applicable may be held at stated intervals, or shall be called by the chairman of the board of trustees on his own motion, or upon request of one of the clergymen trustees or any two of the laymen trustees by giving at least twenty-four hours notice thereof personally or by mail to all trustees, but by the unanimous consent of the trustees a meeting may be held without previous notice thereof.

2. To duly constitute such regular or special meeting of the trustees for the transaction of business, at any meeting lawfully convened, there shall be present a majority of the laymen trustees, the archbishop, or bishop, who is administrator of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America, the rector of the church, unless there is no rector at that time, or he shall be necessarily absent, and the clerk of the corporation.  If the archbishop, or bishop, cannot be present, he may send his proxy to one of the laymen trustees.

3. The chairman of the board of trustees shall preside or if he shall be necessarily absent, the rector shall preside at the meeting.

4. No act or procedure other than regular routine matters in regard to the administration of the temporal affairs of the church and for the care of the property of the corporation, as included in the budget items, shall be valid without the sanction of the archbishop, or bishop, who is administrator of the Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in America.

5. The effect of a tie vote creating a deadlock shall be to carry the question involved (with all pending questions appertaining thereto) over to the next meeting of the board.  In case of such a deadlock extending beyond three successive meetings of the board of trustees, the whole matter involved shall be settled in a meeting of the corporate society.