Section 279. Incorporation of advisory board of a district of the Church of the Nazarene

1. The district superintendent  and  the  members  of  the  advisory  board duly elected by a district assembly of the Church of the
  Nazarene may incorporate for the purpose of advancing the development of
  the Churches of Nazarene in such district.
    2. The certificate of incorporation shall  state  the  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
  which  shall  be not less than three or more than five, designating them
  to hold office for one year. On executing, acknowledging and filing such
  certificate the advisory board of such district shall be  a  corporation
  and the trustees therein stated shall be the first trustees thereof.
    3.  Such  corporation  may  acquire property for churches, parsonages,
  missions,  Sunday  schools,  denominational   educational   institutions
  (subject  to  the  consent of the university of New York), residences of
  church workers, dispensaries of medicine for  the  poor,  rescue  homes,
  homes  for  the  aged  or  for needy and orphan children, subject to the
  consent  of  the  state  board  of  social  welfare,  and  property  for
  cemeteries,  camp  grounds  or  for  other  religious  purposes.  Such a
  corporation shall have power to establish, maintain and  manage  by  its
  trustees  or other officers such institutions as a part of its religious
  purpose, and may take and  hold  by  conveyance,  donation,  bequest  or
  devise  real  and  personal property for such purposes, and may purchase
  and may erect suitable buildings therefor. Any such corporation may take
  and hold any grant, donation, bequest or  devise  of  real  or  personal
  property heretofore or hereafter made upon trust, and apply the same, or
  the  income  thereof,  under  the  direction  of  its  trustees or other
  officers. Such trustees or other officers shall have power  to  mortgage
  or  sell  and convey any property under the care, when directed so to do
  by the corporation that elected them, having first obtained leave of the
  supreme or county court therefor pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this
  chapter;  provided  that  in  all  cases  the  proceeds  of such sale or
  mortgage shall be used either for  the  payment  of  debts  or  for  the
  purchase  or improvement of property for the same uses and deeded to the
  same corporation; or if not used, shall be held subject to the order  of
  the annual assembly of the district.