N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 279: Incorporation of advisory board of a district of the Church of the Nazarene

§ 279. Incorporation of advisory board of a district of the Church of

the Nazarene. 1. The district superintendent and the members of the

advisory board duly elected by a district assembly of the Church of the

Nazarene may incorporate for the purpose of advancing the development of

the Churches of Nazarene in such district.

2. The certificate of incorporation shall state the 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

which shall be not less than three or more than five, designating them

to hold office for one year. On executing, acknowledging and filing such

certificate the advisory board of such district shall be a corporation

and the trustees therein stated shall be the first trustees thereof.

3. Such corporation may acquire property for churches, parsonages,

missions, Sunday schools, denominational educational institutions

(subject to the consent of the university of New York), residences of

church workers, dispensaries of medicine for the poor, rescue homes,

homes for the aged or for needy and orphan children, subject to the

consent of the state board of social welfare, and property for

cemeteries, camp grounds or for other religious purposes. Such a

corporation shall have power to establish, maintain and manage by its

trustees or other officers such institutions as a part of its religious

purpose, and may take and hold by conveyance, donation, bequest or

devise real and personal property for such purposes, and may purchase

and may erect suitable buildings therefor. Any such corporation may take

and hold any grant, donation, bequest or devise of real or personal

property heretofore or hereafter made upon trust, and apply the same, or

the income thereof, under the direction of its trustees or other

officers. Such trustees or other officers shall have power to mortgage

or sell and convey any property under the care, when directed so to do

by the corporation that elected them, having first obtained leave of the

supreme or county court therefor pursuant to the provisions of this

chapter; provided that in all cases the proceeds of such sale or

mortgage shall be used either for the payment of debts or for the

purchase or improvement of property for the same uses and deeded to the

same corporation; or if not used, shall be held subject to the order of

the annual assembly of the district.