Section 278. Corporations for acquiring camp meeting grounds for camp meeting purposes  


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  • The district superintendent and  the  members  of  the  camp  meeting board duly elected by a district assembly of the Church of
      the Nazarene 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, the name of
      such district assembly and of such district, the names and residences 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 one
      year, one-third to hold office for  two  years  and  one-third  to  hold
      office  for  three  years.  On  filing  such  a certificate the district
      superintendent and the members of such camp meeting  board  shall  be  a
      corporation  by  the  name  and  for the purposes therein stated and the
      trustees therein named shall be the first trustees thereof.
        A person holding property in trust for camp meeting purposes or  other
      religious purposes for the Church of the Nazarene may convey the same to
      a  corporation  organized  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  grounds
      owned  by it shall be deemed religious meetings within the provisions of
      the law relating to disturbance of religious meetings.