2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 2 - (3 - 27) GENERAL PROVISIONS
21-A - Corporations for acquiring lands for parsonage or camp-meeting purposes for the Free Methodist denomination.

 
    § 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.