ยง 21-a. Corporations for acquiring lands for parsonage or camp-meeting
purposes for the Free Methodist denomination. The district elder and a
majority of the stewards residing in the district elder's district,
elected by an annual conference of the Free Methodist Church
denomination, may become incorporated, for the purpose of acquiring,
maintaining and improving real property, to be used for the purpose of a
district elder's parsonage or for camp-meeting purposes, or for both
such purposes, by acknowledging and filing a certificate, stating the
name and object of the corporation, the name of such annual conference,
and of such district elder's district, the names, residences and
official relations to such district of the signers thereof, the number
of trustees of said incorporation, which shall be three, or some
multiple of three, not to exceed twelve, the names of such trustees,
designating one-third to hold office for three years, one-third to hold
office for two years and one-third to hold office for one year.
On filing such certificate, the district elder and all the stewards of
such district, by virtue of their respective offices, shall be a
corporation by the name, and for the purposes therein stated, and the
persons therein named as trustees shall be the first trustees thereof.
A person holding property in trust for the purpose of a parsonage for
the district elder of the district, or for camp meeting purposes, and
his successors in office, for the Free Methodist church denomination,
may convey the same to a corporation organized for this purpose of
acquiring property within the district in which such property is
situated.
Meetings held under the direction of such corporation, upon camp
grounds owned by such corporation, shall be deemed to be religious
meetings, within the provisions of the law relating to the disturbance
of religious meetings.
When such corporation or camp ground association owns land bordering
on any navigable waters to be used for camp meeting purposes only, such
corporation or association may regulate or prohibit the landing of
persons or vessels at the wharves, piers or shores upon such ground
during the holding of religious services thereon.
Structure New York Laws
Article 2 - General Provisions
3 - Filing and Recording Certificates of Incorporation of Religious Corporations.
4 - Property of Unincorporated Society Transferred by Its Incorporation.
4-A - Age Qualifications of Voters.
5 - General Powers and Duties of Trustees of Religious Corporations.
7 - Acquisition of Property by Religious Corporations for Cemetery Purposes; Management Thereof.
7-A - Deeds for Cemetery Purposes; Presumption.
8-A - Reacquisition of a Lot, Plot or Part Thereof by a Cemetery.
10 - Acquisition of Property by Two or More Religious Corporations for a Common Parsonage.
11 - Correction and Confirmation of Conveyances to Religious Corporations.
12 - Sale, Mortgage and Lease of Real Property of Religious Corporations.
13 - Consolidation or Merger of Incorporated Churches.
14 - Judicial Investigation of Amount of Property of Religious Corporations.
15-A - Consolidation of Incorporated Presbyteries.
15-B - Consolidation or Merger of Incorporated Presbyterian and Lutheran Synods.
16 - Property of Extinct Churches.
17 - Property of Extinct Free Baptist Churches.
17-A - Property of Extinct Seventh Day Baptist Churches and Seventh Day Baptist Religious Societies.
17-C - Property of Lutheran Congregations.
18 - Dissolution of Religious Corporations.
19 - Corporations for Organizing and Maintaining Mission Churches and Sunday Schools.
20 - Corporations for Acquiring Parsonages for District Superintendents and Camp-Meeting Grounds.
21 - Corporations for Acquiring Camp-Meeting Grounds for the Reformed Methodist Denomination.
22 - Establishing and Maintaining a Home for Aged Poor.
23 - Powers of Churches Created by Special Laws.
24 - Government of Churches Incorporated Prior to January First, Eighteen Hundred and Twenty-Eight.