21 - Corporations for acquiring camp-meeting grounds for the Reformed Methodist denomination. - New York Statutes

§ 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.