§ 64. Changing system of trustees. 1. If the trustees of an
incorporated Presbyterian church in connection with the Presbyterian
Church (U.S.A.) shall at any time be elective as trustees and not
trustees by virtue of being spiritual officers, the church may, at an
annual corporate meeting if notice thereof be given with the notice of
such meeting, determine that the board of deacons thereof, or the
session with the board of deacons thereof, or the session thereof shall
thereafter constitute the trustees thereof, and thereupon the presiding
officer of such meeting and at least two other persons present thereat
shall sign, acknowledge and cause to be filed and recorded a certificate
stating the fact of such determination, the names of the officers
determined upon to be the ex officio trustees thereof and thereon the
terms of office of such elective trustees shall cease, and the officers
determined upon by such corporate meeting and their successors in office
shall, by virtue of their respective offices, be the trustees of such
church.

2. If, at any time, the spiritual officers of an incorporated
Presbyterian church in connection with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.),
which officers by virtue of their offices constitute the trustees
thereof, shall determine to submit to a meeting of such church
corporation the question whether the trustees of such church shall be
thereafter elective as such trustees, they shall cause a special
corporate meeting of such church to be called and held in the manner
provided in section sixty-five of this chapter, and such corporate
meeting shall determine whether the trustees of such church shall
thereafter be elective in pursuance of this article and also whether the
number of such trustees shall be three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen,
eighteen, twenty-one, or twenty-four and the date of the annual
corporate meeting of the church. If such meeting shall determine that
such trustees shall thereafter be elective as such trustees, the number
of such trustees and the date of the first annual corporate meeting of
the church, the presiding officer thereof and at least two other persons
present and voting thereat shall sign, acknowledge and cause to be filed
and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in which the
certificate of incorporation of such church is filed a certificate of
such determination of such meeting; thereafter the trustees of such
church shall be elective in pursuance of this article. At the next
annual corporate meeting after the filing of such certificate, one-third
of the number of trustees so determined on shall be elected to hold
office for one year, one-third for two years and one-third for three
years, the officers of such church who by virtue of their offices have
been trustees of such church shall then cease to be such trustees and
thereafter the trustees of such church and their successors shall be
elective as such trustees as in this article provided. At each
subsequent annual corporate meeting of such church, one-third of the
number of trustees so determined on shall be elected to hold office for
three years. The nomination and election of trustees shall be conducted
as provided in the constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).