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.
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