§ 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.