Section 197. Changing number of trustees  


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  • An incorporated church to which
      this article is applicable, may, at an annual corporate meeting,  change
      the  number  of  its  trustees  to  three,  six,  nine, twelve, fifteen,
      eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four, or classify them so that the  terms
      of  one-third expire each year. No such change shall affect the terms of
      the trustees then in office, and if the change  reduces  the  number  of
      trustees,  it  shall  not take effect until the number of trustees whose
      terms of office continue for one or more years after an annual  election
      is  less  than the number determined on. Whenever the number of trustees
      so holding over is less than the number so determined on, trustees shall
      be elected in addition to those so holding over, sufficient to make  the
      number  of  trustees  for  the  ensuing  year  equal  to  the  number so
      determined on. The trustees so elected up to and including one-third  of
      the  number  so  determined  on,  shall  be elected for three years, the
      remainder up to and including one-third of the number so  determined  on
      for two years, and the remainder for one year.