The ordained, licentiate and associate ministers of the church shall be called, elected and removed and their salaries be fixed as the church shall provide in its by-laws. Such minister shall be regularly commissioned by the New Jersey State Association of Spiritualists according to its rules, after examination of his character and qualifications by its committee regularly appointed. No such church shall retain any minister who has been suspended or removed by the New Jersey State Association of Spiritualists.
No ordained, licentiate or associate minister shall be eligible to serve as an officer or trustee of the church.
N.J.S. § 16:17-10