New York Laws
Article 11-A - Free Methodist Churches.
225-K - Powers and Duties of the Trustees.

§ 225-k. Powers and duties of the trustees. 1. The trustees shall have
the custody of all the temporalities and property, real and personal,
belonging to the corporation and of the revenues therefrom, and shall
administer the same in accordance with the discipline, rules and usages
of the corporation and of the Free Methodist Church of North America;
but shall have no control of funds raised for pastoral support,
benevolent enterprises or any other purpose save those directly
connected with the property of the church.

2. A society meeting of an incorporated free Methodist church whose
trustees are elective as such, may give direction, 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 shall have no power, without
the consent of such a society meeting, to incur debts beyond what is
necessary for the care of the property of the corporation.