N.Y. Religious Corporations Law § 17-b: Property of extinct Presbyterian churches in connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U

§ 17-b. Property of extinct Presbyterian churches in connection with

the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Whenever the

presbytery having jurisdiction over a particular church in connection

with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) dissolves

or declares extinct the particular church, upon petition by the

presbytery to the supreme or county court and upon satisfactory proof of

the facts leading to said dissolution, the court shall have jurisdiction

to grant an order to the effect that all property of whatever kind which

may have belonged to, or have been held by, said church shall vest in

the presbytery of jurisdiction in as full and ample a manner as the same

shall theretofore have been vested in the church so declared to be

dissolved and extinct. The stated clerk of the presbytery of

jurisdiction shall record in the office of the county clerk, in which

the church is located, a certified copy of the resolution of the

presbytery declaring such church extinct and the court order

transferring the title of the church property; and the recording of such

a resolution and court order shall be proof of the vesting of the title

of the real property of such church in the presbytery of jurisdiction.