ยง 21. Corporations for acquiring camp-meeting grounds for the Reformed
Methodist denomination. The visiting elder of a visiting elder's
district, erected by an annual conference of the Reformed Methodist
denomination, and three members or more in good and regular standing of
three or more churches of such denomination, 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 to be formed, the name of such annual conference, and of
such visiting elder's district, the names, residences and particular
church membership 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 three years, one-third to hold office for two years, and
one-third to hold office for one year. On filing such certificate, the
visiting elder and the trustees named therein, and their successors in
office, shall be a corporation by the name and for the purposes therein
stated. A person holding property in trust for camp-meeting purposes for
the Reformed Methodist denomination, may convey the same to a
corporation formed for the purpose of acquiring such property within the
visiting elder's district where the property is situated. Meetings held
under the direction of such a corporation upon camp grounds owned by it,
shall be deemed religious meetings within the religious law, relating to
the disturbance of religious meetings. Whenever such a corporation, or
any camp ground association of the Reformed Methodist denomination, owns
land bordering upon 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 grounds 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.