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    SECTION 170

    Election and salary of ministers

    Religious Corporations (RCO) CHAPTER 51, ARTICLE 8

    § 170. Election and salary of ministers. The ministers of any such
    church shall be called, settled or removed and their salaries fixed,
    only by the vote of a majority of the members of such corporation duly
    qualified to vote at elections present and voting at a meeting of such
    corporation specially called for that purpose, in the manner
    hereinbefore provided for the call of special meetings; and any such
    corporation may, by its by-laws, make the call, settlement or removal of
    its ministers dependent upon a concurrent vote of the unincorporated
    church connected with such corporation; and in that case the concurrence
    of a majority of the members of such unincorporated church, present and
    voting at a meeting thereof, called for that purpose, shall be necessary
    to the call, settlement or removal of such ministers.