Section 402. Meeting for incorporation of unincorporated society  


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  • At a
      meeting for incorporation held pursuant to section four hundred one, the
      qualified voters, until otherwise decided as hereafter  provided,  shall
      be  all  persons  of  full  age  who  are  members of the unincorporated
      society, according to its rules or usages, for at least one  year  prior
      to the meeting or since it was formed.
        At  such  meeting the presence of a majority of such qualified voters,
      in person, at least six in number, shall be necessary  to  constitute  a
      quorum,  and  all matters or questions shall be decided by a majority of
      the qualified voters voting thereon. The  meeting  shall  be  called  to
      order  by one of the signers of the call. There shall be elected at such
      meeting, from the qualified voters then present, a presiding officer,  a
      clerk  to  keep  the  record  of  the proceedings of the meeting and two
      inspectors of election  to  receive  the  ballots  cast.  The  presiding
      officer  and  the inspectors shall decide the result of the ballots cast
      on any matter, and shall be the judges  of  the  qualifications  of  the
      voters.
        If  the  meeting  shall  decide that such unincorporated society shall
      become incorporated, the meeting shall also decide upon the name of  the
      proposed corporation, the number of the trustees thereof, which shall be
      not  less  than  three  and not more than twelve, and the date, not more
      than fifteen months thereafter, on which the first  annual  election  of
      the trustees thereof shall be held.
        Such  meeting  shall  also  adopt  by-laws  and  then  elect by ballot
      trustees in accordance with the provisions of such by-laws.
        Thereafter, the officers  of  the  corporation  shall  be  elected  in
      accordance with the by-laws.