2013 New York Consolidated Laws
RCO - Religious Corporations
Article 2 - (3 - 27) GENERAL PROVISIONS
17-A - Property of extinct Seventh Day Baptist churches and Seventh Day Baptist religious societies.

 
    §  17-a.  Property of extinct Seventh Day Baptist churches and Seventh
  Day Baptist religious societies.   1. All property,  both  personal  and
  real,  belonging  to or held in trust for any Seventh Day Baptist church
  or any Seventh Day Baptist religious society that has  or  shall  become
  extinct shall vest in and become the property of the Seventh Day Baptist
  missionary  society  and  its successors and assigns; provided that this
  section shall not affect the reversionary  interest  of  any  person  or
  corporation in said property or any valid lien thereon.
    2. Any Seventh Day Baptist church or any Seventh Day Baptist religious
  society  in  this state which has ceased or failed, or which shall cease
  or fail, to maintain religious  worship  or  services,  or  to  use  its
  property  for  religious  worship  or services, according to the tenets,
  usages and customs of Seventh Day Baptist churches which are members  of
  the  Seventh  Day  Baptist  general  conference,  for  the  space of two
  consecutive years immediately prior to application to the supreme  court
  of  the  state  for an order dissolving said church or society as herein
  provided, or whose membership has so diminished or shall so diminish  in
  numbers  or  in  financial  strength  as  to  render  it  impossible  or
  impracticable for such church or society to maintain  religious  worship
  or  services  or  to  protect  its  property  from  exposure to waste or
  dilapidation, or to fulfill the purpose for which it  was  incorporated,
  shall  be  deemed  and  taken  to  be  extinct, and may, by order of the
  supreme court of the state, be so declared and thereupon dissolved,  and
  the  property  of  such  church  or  society  may,  by  said  order,  be
  transferred to, and the title and possession  thereof  vested  in,  said
  Seventh Day Baptist missionary society.
    3. An application for such an order and disposition of property may be
  made  by  any  member,  trustee,  or officer of said Seventh Day Baptist
  missionary society, or any member of such church or society,  when  duly
  authorized  thereto by the board of trustees of said Seventh Day Baptist
  missionary society, upon a verified petition  setting  forth  the  facts
  authorizing   such   order   and   disposition  of  property.  Upon  the
  presentation of such petition to the supreme court of  the  state,  such
  court may proceed in a summary manner after such notice as the court may
  prescribe,  to inquire into the merits of such application, and if, upon
  examination by the court, it shall satisfactorily appear that the making
  of the order and the disposition of property applied  for  is  necessary
  and  proper,  for any of the causes mentioned in subdivision two of this
  section, such court shall make a final order declaring  such  church  or
  society  extinct  and  dissolving the same and transferring any property
  and the title and possession thereof, which may belong to such church or
  society, to and vesting the same in said Seventh Day Baptist  missionary
  society,  it being the purpose and intent of this section to preserve to
  the Seventh Day Baptist denomination all property owned by  or  held  in
  trust for any such church or society for religious purposes.