N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 350: Pastoral relations

§ 350. Pastoral relations. The election, calling, settlement,

installation, dismissal, removal, translation, constituting or

dissolving of the pastoral relation, or fixing or changing of the salary

of a minister, or taking any action for or toward any such purpose, and

the calling and conduct of a meeting of any such church for any such

purpose, and the qualification of voters at any such meeting are not

authorized or regulated or controlled by any provision of this chapter,

but the same shall be in all respects, done, and regulated, and any

meeting therefor called, conducted, and controlled, only in accordance

with the laws, regulations, practice, discipline, books of government,

rules and usages of the ecclesiastical governing body of the

Byelorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church, except that the salary of any

such minister may be increased at any corporate meeting of any such

church.