N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 115: Reformed Presbyterian churches, changing system of choosing trustees; pew rents and minister's salary

§ 115. Reformed Presbyterian churches, changing system of choosing

trustees; pew rents and minister's salary. If any incorporated Reformed

Presbyterian church, at a meeting of the church or congregation,

determine that the deacons of such church shall be the trustees thereof,

then the deacons of such church actively engaged in the exercise of

their offices therein, and their successors in office, shall, by virtue

of their respective offices, be the trustees of such church. The salary

of the minister and the pew rents in any such church shall be fixed by

the vote of the congregation, and the trustees shall not fix or change

the same.