2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 10 - (190 - 211) OTHER DENOMINATIONS
200 - Control of trustees by corporate meetings; salaries of ministers.

 
    §  200.  Control  of  trustees  by  corporate  meetings;  salaries  of
  ministers.   A  corporate  meeting  of  an  incorporated  church,  whose
  trustees  are  elective  as  such, may give directions, not inconsistent
  with law, as to the manner in which any of the temporal affairs  of  the
  church   shall  be  administered  by  the  trustees  thereof;  and  such
  directions shall be  followed  by  the  trustees.  The  trustees  of  an
  incorporated  church  to which this article is applicable, shall have no
  power to settle or remove or fix the salary of the minister, or  without
  the  consent  of  a  corporate  meeting,  to  incur debts beyond what is
  necessary for the care of the property of the corporation; or to fix  or
  charge the time, nature or order of the public or social worship of such
  church,  except  when  such  trustees are also the spiritual officers of
  such church.