16:1-47 - Directors of corporations for support of ministers; increase; tenure - New Jersey Statutes

16:1-47.  Directors of corporations for support of ministers;  increase; tenure
    The body vested by law with the power of election or appointment of the managers or directors of any corporation of this state, the object of which is to provide for the support and maintenance of supernumerary or superannuated ministers of the gospel, or to provide for the support of the widows and orphans of deceased ministers of the gospel, whether such power be in the members of the corporation or in any annual conference or other ecclesiastical body, may add to the number of such managers or directors so that the whole number shall not exceed eighteen, at least one-half of whom shall be laymen, residents of this state and members of some church of the denomination to which  the corporation belongs.  Such corporation shall prescribe by by-law or otherwise the term of office of such managers or directors, which term shall not exceed three years.