N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 200: Control of trustees by corporate meetings; salaries of ministers

§ 200. Control of trustees by corporate meetings; salaries of

ministers. A corporate meeting of an incorporated church, whose

trustees are elective as such, may give directions, not inconsistent

with law, as to the manner in which any of the temporal affairs of the

church shall be administered by the trustees thereof; and such

directions shall be followed by the trustees. The trustees of an

incorporated church to which this article is applicable, shall have no

power to settle or remove or fix the salary of the minister, or without

the consent of a corporate meeting, to incur debts beyond what is

necessary for the care of the property of the corporation; or to fix or

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

church, except when such trustees are also the spiritual officers of

such church.