68 - Changing number of trustees.

§  68.  Changing  number  of trustees. An incorporated church to which  this article is applicable, may, at an annual corporate meeting,  change  the  number  of  its  trustees  to  three,  six,  nine, twelve, fifteen,  eighteen, twenty-one or twenty-four, and classify them so that the terms  of one-third expire each year. No such change shall affect the terms  of  the  trustees  then  in  office, and if the change reduces the number of  trustees it shall not take effect until the  number  of  trustees  whose  terms of office continue for one or more years after an annual election,  is less than the number determined upon. Whenever the number of trustees  so holding over is less than the number so determined on, trustees shall  be  elected  in addition to those so holding over sufficient to make the  number of  trustees  for  the  ensuing  year  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.