N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 139: Control of trustees by corporate meetings of such churches; salary of minister

§ 139. Control of trustees by corporate meetings of such churches;

salary of minister. The trustees of an incorporated Baptist church

shall have no power to settle or remove a minister or to fix his salary

or, without the consent of a corporate meeting, to incur debts beyond

what is necessary for the administration of the temporal affairs of the

church and for the care of the property of the corporation; or to fix or

change the time, nature or order of the public or social worship of such

church. The temporal affairs and property of an incorporated Baptist

church shall be administered by its trustees in accordance with and

subject to its lawfully adopted by-laws and to the general or special

rules, regulations, or resolutions lawfully adopted by the church at its

annual or other regular corporate meeting or at any duly called special

corporate meeting.