NY Rel Corps L § 20 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RCO - Religious Corporations Article 2 - General Provisions 20 - Corporations for Acquiring Parsonages for District Superintendents and Camp-Meeting Grounds.

§   20.   Corporations   for   acquiring   parsonages   for   district   superintendents and camp-meeting grounds.  The  district  superintendent   and  a  majority  of  the  district  stewards residing within a district   erected by an annual conference of  The  United  Methodist  Church,  may   become  incorporated  for  the  purposes  of  acquiring, maintaining and   improving real property to  be  used  either  as  a  parsonage  for  the   district  superintendent  of  such  district  or  as  a  camp ground for   camp-meeting purposes,  or  for  both  of  such  objects  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 district, the names, residences  and  official  relations  to  such   district  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   district  superintendent 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 shall be the   first trustees thereof. The district superintendent and stewards of  any   other  adjoining  districts,  in  this  or  any  other state, may become   members of any such corporation, at the time of  its  formation  or  any   time thereafter, with the consent of such corporation, which has for its   sole  object,  or for one of its objects, the acquiring, maintaining and   improving of real property as a camp ground for  camp-meeting  purposes,   if  such  district  superintendent and a majority of such stewards sign,   acknowledge and cause to be filed in the  office  of  the  secretary  of   state,  a  certificate  stating  such object, the name of such adjoining   district, and the names,  residences  and  official  relations  to  such   district  of  the  signers  thereof,  with  the  consent of the original   corporation indorsed thereon.If such a corporation, which has for its sole object  or  one  of  its   objects,   the   acquisition   and   maintenance  of  camp  grounds  for   camp-meeting purposes, is composed of the  district  superintendent  and   the  district  stewards  of  more  than one district, the number of such   trustees shall be apportioned equally, as near as may  be,  between  the   different  districts,  and  the  district  superintendent  and  district   stewards of  such  district  shall  elect  the  number  of  trustees  so   apportioned  to  such district, and the remainder, if any, over an equal   division of the trustees, shall be elected by all  the  members  of  the   corporation.A person holding property in trust for the purposes of a parsonage for   the district superintendent of a district, and his successors in office,   or  for  camp-meeting  purposes,  for  The  United Methodist Church, may   convey the same to a corporation formed 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  camp   grounds  owned  by  it  shall  be  deemed religious meetings, within the   provisions of  law  relating  to  disturbances  of  religious  meetings.   Whenever  such  a  corporation  or any camp ground association 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 service thereon.If  the  trustees of any such corporation heretofore incorporated have   not been classified, so that the terms of office of one-third  of  their   number  expire  each  year,  the  trustees  of such corporation shall be   elected annually by the members thereof; but if the trustees of any such    corporation have been so classified, one-third of the  total  number  of   trustees  shall be elected annually to hold office for three years. Such   a corporation heretofore incorporated may, by a  majority  vote,  at  an   annual  meeting, or at a special meeting duly called therefor, determine   to change the number of its trustees to three, or some multiple thereof,   not more than twenty-one.  On  such  determination  a  majority  of  the   trustees  shall  sign,  acknowledge  and  file  in the offices where the   original certificate  of  such  corporation  is  filed,  a  supplemental   certificate,  specifying  such  reduction  or  increase; and thereon the   number of trustees shall be the number stated in  such  certificate.  If   the number of trustees is increased, the corporation shall elect, at its   next  annual meeting, a sufficient number of trustees to hold office for   one, two and three years, respectively, so that the terms of  office  of   one-third  of  the  whole  number  of trustees of such corporation shall   expire at each annual meeting thereafter. If the number is reduced,  the   corporation  shall  thereafter elect at its annual meetings one-third of   the number of trustees specified in such supplemental  certificate,  but   the  trustees in office when such certificate is filed shall continue in   office until the expiration of their terms, respectively.