N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 278: Corporations for acquiring camp meeting grounds for camp meeting purposes

§ 278. Corporations for acquiring camp meeting grounds for camp

meeting purposes. The district superintendent and the members of the

camp meeting board duly elected by a district assembly of the Church of

the Nazarene may become incorporated for the purposes of acquiring,

maintaining and improving real property to be used as a camp ground for

camp meeting purposes, by executing, acknowledging and filing a

certificate stating the name and object of the corporation, the name of

such district assembly and of such district, the names and residences of

the signers thereof, the number of trustees of such corporation, which

shall be three, or some multiple of three, not more than twenty-one, the

names of such trustees, designating one-third to hold office for one

year, one-third to hold office for two years and one-third to hold

office for three years. On filing such a certificate the district

superintendent and the members of such camp meeting board shall be a

corporation by the name and for the purposes therein stated and the

trustees therein named shall be the first trustees thereof.

A person holding property in trust for camp meeting purposes or other

religious purposes for the Church of the Nazarene may convey the same to

a corporation organized for the purpose of acquiring such property

within the district in which the property is situated.

Meetings held under the direction of such a corporation upon grounds

owned by it shall be deemed religious meetings within the provisions of

the law relating to disturbance of religious meetings.