N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 58: Meetings of trustees

§ 58. 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 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 bishop who is the ecclesiastical

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

Synod Apostolic Episcopal Church. 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 bishop, vicar-general or the chancellor cannot be present,

the bishop 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

bishop 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.