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SECTION 278
Corporations for acquiring camp meeting grounds for camp meeting purposes
Religious Corporations (RCO) CHAPTER 51, ARTICLE 14
§ 278. Corporations for acquiring camp meeting grounds for camp
meeting purposes. 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.