Section 134. Organization and conduct of corporate meetings; qualifications of voters thereat  


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  • At a corporate meeting of  an  incorporated  Baptist  church the qualified voters shall be all persons who are then members of
      such  church  in  good  and  regular  standing  by  admission  into full
      communion or membership therewith, or who have statedly worshipped  with
      such  church  and  have  regularly  contributed to the financial support
      thereof  during  the  year  next  preceding  such   meeting;   but   any
      incorporated Baptist church may at any annual corporate meeting thereof,
      if  notice  of  the intention so to do has been given with the notice of
      such meeting, decide that thereafter only members of such church in good
      and regular standing by admission  into  full  communion  or  membership
      therewith  shall  be qualified voters at the corporate meetings. At such
      corporate meetings the presence of at least  six  persons  qualified  to
      vote  thereat shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, and all matters
      or questions shall be decided by a  majority  of  the  qualified  voters
      voting  thereon.  There  shall  be  elected  at  said  meeting  from the
      qualified voters then present, a presiding officer, a clerk to keep  the
      records of the proceedings of the meeting and two inspectors of election
      to  receive  the ballots cast.  The presiding officer and the inspectors
      of election shall declare the result of the ballots cast on  any  matter
      and  shall  be the judge of the qualifications of voters. At each annual
      corporate meeting, successors to those trustees whose  terms  of  office
      then expire, shall be elected by ballot from the qualified voters, for a
      term  of  three  years  thereafter,  and until their successors shall be
      elected.