N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 50-ii: Meetings of trustees

§ 50-ii. Meetings of trustees. Meetings of the trustees of such

incorporated church shall be called by giving at least three days'

notice thereof in writing, served personally or by mail to all of the

trustees, unless, by a regularly adopted standing resolution a fixed

date for such meeting is the approved order, in which case a written

notice may be dispensed with. To duly constitute such regular or special

meeting of the trustees for the transaction of business, at any meeting

lawfully convened, there shall be present a majority of the laymen

trustees, the rector or vicar of the church, the clerk of the

corporation and either the archbishop who is the ecclesiastical

administrator, the vicar-general or the chancellor of the Metropolitan

Synod Holy Orthodox Church of America. But if the church has no rector

or vicar, at least one of the trustees who is a warden must be present.

If either the archbishop, vicar-general or the chancellor cannot be

present, the archbishop who is the ecclesiastical administrator may send

his proxy to one of the laymen trustees. No act or procedure other than

regular routine matters in regard to the administration of the temporal

affairs of the church and for the care of the property of the

corporation, as included in the budget items, shall be valid without the

sanction of the archbishop and ecclesiastical administrator of the synod

or diocese to which the church belongs; nor shall the trustees, without

the consent of the corporate meeting incur debts for items not provided

in the adopted budget. Trustees of such incorporated church shall have

no power to call, settle or remove a minister or to fix his salary; or

to fix, change the time, nature or order of the public or social

worship, rites and religious observances of such church which are or

shall be established by the governing ecclesiastical body.