2015 New York Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 17 - (Religious Corporations) METHODIST CHURCHES
331 - Control of trustees by corporate meetings.

  331. Control of trustees by corporate meetings. A corporate meeting
  of an incorporated United Methodist church, whose trustees are  elective
  as  such,  may  give  directions,  not inconsistent with law or with the
  discipline of The United Methodist Church, 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.