N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 54-a: Rector; vicar; ministers; their appointment, removal and compensation

§ 54-a. Rector; vicar; ministers; their appointment, removal and

compensation. The rector or vicar or other ministers of any such church,

by whatever title they are called in ecclesiastical language, shall be

called, settled or removed and their salaries fixed, only by the vote of

a majority of the members of such corporation duly qualified to vote at

elections present and voting at a meeting of such corporation

specifically called for that purpose, subject to the consent of the

ecclesiastical administrator of Patriarchal Synod, given in writing. A

rector or vicar or other minister so called, with the sanction of the

archbishop in writing, shall be deemed settled definitely in such

church, when he has accepted such call in writing. Unless there is

sufficient cause to terminate the relationship of such clergyman and

such church such relationship shall be deemed permanent and governed

entirely by the rules and usages of the American Patriarchal Orthodox

Church, subject to the patriarch.