N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 268: Election and salary of ministers

§ 268. Election and salary of ministers. The ministerial and clerical

attendants of any such church shall be called, elected and removed and

their salaries fixed as such corporation in its by-laws shall provide,

but no such church shall call, or elect any such person to perform any

of the duties of minister or clerical attendant who has not been

regularly commissioned so to act by the General Assembly of Spritualists

according to its rules, after examination into the character and

qualifications of such person by its committees regularly appointed, nor

shall any such church retain any person as its minister or clerical

attendant after it has been regularly notified that such person has been

suspended or removed according to the rules and regulations of the

General Assembly of Spiritualists covering such matters.