Section 163. Time, place and notice of corporate meetings  


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  • 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. 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. The
      trustees shall cause  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  its  annual
      corporate meeting, and of the names of any trustees whose successors are
      to  be  elected thereat, and if a special meeting, of the business to be
      transacted thereat, to be publicly read by the minister of  such  church
      or  any  trustees  thereof at a regular meeting of the church for public
      worship, on  the  two  successive  Sundays  immediately  preceding  such
      meeting.