Section 65. Corporate meetings  


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  • 1. In every incorporated church to which
      this article applies and in which  the  trustees  thereof  as  such  are
      elective,  there  shall be held an annual corporate meeting. Such annual
      corporate meeting of every incorporated church to which this article  is
      applicable  shall be held at the time and place fixed by or in pursuance
      of law therefor, if such time and place be so fixed, and otherwise at  a
      time  and  place  to be fixed by its trustees and in accordance with the
      constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
        2. A special corporate meeting of any such church  may  be  called  by
      trustees  thereof  on  their  own  motion,  and must be so called on the
      written request of at least ten qualified voters of such church,  or  on
      the  request  of  the  session  thereof,  and shall be called and notice
      thereof given in the same manner as for an annual corporate meeting.
        3. The trustees shall cause notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  its
      corporate  meetings  to  be given at a regular meeting of the church for
      public worship, at morning service, if such service be held, on each  of
      the  two  successive  Sundays  next  preceding  such  meeting, if public
      worship be had thereon, or otherwise on each of two days, at  least  one
      week apart, next preceding such meeting; or if no such public worship be
      held  during  such  period,  by  conspicuously  posting  such notice, in
      writing, upon the outer entrance to the principal place  of  worship  of
      such  church.  Such notice shall be given by the minister of the church,
      if there be one, or by the officiating minister  thereof,  if  there  be
      one,  or  by  any officer of such church. If such notice be of an annual
      corporate meeting it shall specify  the  names  of  the  trustees  whose
      successors  are  to  be  elected thereat; if such notice be of a special
      corporate meeting, it  shall  specify  the  particular  business  to  be
      transacted  thereat,  and  no other business shall be transacted at such
      special corporate meeting.
        4. Whenever in any  such  incorporated  church,  by  virtue  of  their
      offices, any of the spiritual officers thereof are the trustees thereof,
      they  may  in  their  discretion call special corporate meetings of such
      incorporated church; and in such case such meetings shall be  called  by
      the  same  notice  published  or  posted  in  the  same manner as herein
      provided for the notice of such a meeting by  the  trustees  of  such  a
      church  elected  as such; and in each such case such notice must specify
      the particular business to be transacted at such meeting, and  no  other
      business shall be transacted at such special corporate meeting.