Section 225-M. Property of extinct churches

1. Any incorporated annual
  conference or other governing body of  the  free  Methodist  church  may
  decide  that a church society in connection with it or over which it has
  ecclesiastical jurisdiction, has become extinct, if it  has  failed  for
  two consecutive years next prior thereto, to maintain religious services
  according  to the discipline, customs and usages of such governing body,
  or has had less than ten resident attending  members  making  annual  or
  regular  contributions  towards  its support, and may take possession of
  the temporalities and property belonging to such  church,  or  religious
  society,  and manage the same; or may, in pursuance of the provisions of
  this act relating to the disposition of real property by free  Methodist
  corporations, sell or dispose of the same and apply the proceeds thereof
  to any of the purposes to which the property of such governing religious
  body  is  devoted,  and  it  shall not divert such property to any other
  object. For the purpose of obtaining a record title to the land and  the
  church  edifice,  or  other  buildings  thereon,  by  such  incorporated
  governing body, the surviving trustee or trustees of said extinct church
  or if there be no surviving trustee, then a  surviving  member  of  said
  extinct church, may, without a consideration being paid therefor by such
  incorporated  governing body, convey to it said land and church edifice,
  or other buildings thereon, subject, however, to an order of the supreme
  or county court based upon a petition  reciting  that  said  church  has
  become  extinct;  the name of its surviving trustee or trustees; and the
  names of its members (who must have given their consent to the making of
  said conveyance). Upon the recital of said facts in said  petition,  the
  court shall have jurisdiction to grant an order allowing said conveyance
  to  be  made  without  a consideration; and should there be no surviving
  members, as well as no surviving trustee of said  extinct  church,  said
  petition  may be made by an officer of said incorporated governing body,
  in which event the court, upon the recital  of  said  fact,  shall  have
  jurisdiction  to appoint a suitable person as trustee for the purpose of
  making said conveyance.