Section 343. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings  


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  • 1. The annual
      corporate meeting of every church incorporated under this article  shall
      be  held  at  the time and place fixed by its by-laws, or if no time and
      place be so fixed, then at a time and place to be  first  fixed  by  its
      trustees,  but  to  be  changed  only  by  a by-law adopted at an annual
      meeting.
        2. A special corporate meeting of any such church may be called by the
      board of trustees thereof, on its own motion, and shall be called on the
      written request of at least ten qualified voters of such church.
        3. The trustees shall cause notice of  the  time  and  place  of  such
      annual  corporate meeting, therein specifying the names of any trustees,
      whose successors are to be  elected  thereat  and  the  business  to  be
      transacted thereat, and, if a special meeting, specifying business to be
      transacted  thereat,  to  be  publicly  read  at  two successive regular
      meetings for public worship or at special meetings of such church on the
      two Sundays  immediately  preceding  the  annual  or  special  corporate
      meeting,  by  the  rector  of  such  church or if there be none or he be
      necessarily absent, by the officiating minister  thereof,  if  there  be
      one,  or  if not, or if any such minister refuse to give such notice, by
      any officer of such church. If no public worship  be  held  during  said
      period,  or  if it be the notice of special corporate meeting, a copy of
      such notice shall be posted conspicuously on the  outside  of  the  main
      entrance  to  the  usual  or principal place of worship at least fifteen
      days before such meeting and a copy of such notice shall be sent by mail
      postpaid at least ten days prior to the date set  for  such  meeting  to
      each  member  of  such  church in good and regular standing by admission
      into full communion and membership therewith,  in  accordance  with  the
      rules  and regulations thereof, and of the governing ecclesiastical body
      of the Byelorussian Autocephalic  Orthodox  Church,  and  who  has  been
      stated  attendant  at  divine  worship  in such church and has regularly
      contributed to the  financial  support  thereof  during  the  year  next
      preceding such meeting, at his last known address as same appears in the
      records of the church.