§ 50-ii. 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 of 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 archbishop who is the ecclesiastical
administrator, the vicar-general or the chancellor of the Metropolitan
Synod Holy Orthodox Church of America. 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 archbishop, vicar-general or the chancellor cannot be
present, the archbishop 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 archbishop 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.