N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 225-k: Powers and duties of the trustees

§ 225-k. Powers and duties of the trustees. 1. The trustees shall have

the custody of all the temporalities and property, real and personal,

belonging to the corporation and of the revenues therefrom, and shall

administer the same in accordance with the discipline, rules and usages

of the corporation and of the Free Methodist Church of North America;

but shall have no control of funds raised for pastoral support,

benevolent enterprises or any other purpose save those directly

connected with the property of the church.

2. A society meeting of an incorporated free Methodist church whose

trustees are elective as such, may give direction, 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 shall have no power, without

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

necessary for the care of the property of the corporation.