N.Y. Religious Corporations Law Section 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.

Source: Section 21-A — Corporations for acquiring lands for parsonage or camp-meeting purposes for the Free Methodist denomination, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/RCO/21-A (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Oct. 26, 2024).

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Filing and recording certificates of incorporation of religious corporations 4
Property of unincorporated society transferred by its incorporation 4‑A
Age qualifications of voters 5
General powers and duties of trustees of religious corporations 5‑A
Investment of funds 5‑B
Any investment of the funds of any religious corporation heretofore made by the trustees thereof shall not be deemed to have been restric... 6
Acquisition of property by religious corporations for branch institutions 7
Acquisition of property by religious corporations for cemetery purposes 7‑A
Deeds for cemetery purposes 8
Lot owners’ rights 8‑A
Reacquisition of a lot, plot or part thereof by a cemetery 9
Removal of human remains from one cemetery of a religious corporation to another cemetery owned by it 10
Acquisition of property by two or more religious corporations for a common parsonage 11
Correction and confirmation of conveyances to religious corporations 12
Sale, mortgage and lease of real property of religious corporations 13
Consolidation or merger of incorporated churches 14
Judicial investigation of amount of property of religious corporations 15
Corporations with governing authority over, or advisory relations with, churches or synods, or both 15‑A
Consolidation of incorporated presbyteries 15‑B
Consolidation or merger of incorporated Presbyterian and Lutheran synods 16
Property of extinct churches 17
Property of extinct Free Baptist churches 17‑A
Property of extinct Seventh Day Baptist churches and Seventh Day Baptist religious societies 17‑B
Property of extinct Presbyterian churches in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U 17‑C
Property of Lutheran congregations 18
Dissolution of religious corporations 19
Corporations for organizing and maintaining mission churches and Sunday schools 20
Corporations for acquiring parsonages for district superintendents and camp-meeting grounds 21
Corporations for acquiring camp-meeting grounds for the Reformed Methodist denomination 21‑A
Corporations for acquiring lands for parsonage or camp-meeting purposes for the Free Methodist denomination 22
Establishing and maintaining a home for aged poor 23
Powers of churches created by special laws 24
Government of churches incorporated prior to January first, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight 25
Pastoral relation 26
Worship 27
Reservation as to Baptist churches, churches of the United Church of Christ and Congregational Christian churches 28
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Accessed:
Oct. 26, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 21-A’s source at nysenate​.gov

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