Section 166. Changing number of trustees  


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  • Any such incorporated church may,
      at  an  annual  corporate  meeting, change the number of its trustees to
      three, six, nine, twelve or fifteen, classifying them so that the  terms
      of  one-third  expire  each  year, provided that notice of such intended
      change be included in the notice of such annual  corporate  meeting.  No
      such  change  shall affect the terms of the trustees then in office; and
      if the change reduces the number of trustees,  elections  shall  not  be
      held  to  fill  the  vacancies  caused by the expiration of the terms of
      trustees, until the number of trustees equals the number  to  which  the
      trustees  were  reduced.    Whenever the number of trustees in office is
      less than the number so determined on,  sufficient  additional  trustees
      shall  be  elected to make the number of trustees equal to the number so
      determined on. The trustees so elected, up to and including one-third of
      the number so determined on, shall  be  elected  for  three  years,  the
      remainder  up  to and including one-third of the number so determined on
      for two years, and the remainder for one year.