New York Consolidated Laws, Religious Corporations Law - RCO § 169. Limitation of powers of trustees

The trustees of any such incorporated church shall have no power to call, settle or remove a minister or to fix his salary, nor without the consent of a corporate meeting, to incur debts, beyond what is necessary for the administration of the temporal affairs of the church and for the care of the property of the corporation;  or to fix or change the time, nature or order of the public or social worship of such church.