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NY A05784
Bill
Status
10/1/2018
Primary Sponsor
D. Billy Jones
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AI Summary
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Prohibits cemetery boards from approving construction of standalone mausoleums or columbariums that are the only form of interment offered by a cemetery corporation, unless a management contract with an existing regulated cemetery provides operational oversight.
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Requires owners of standalone mausoleums or columbariums to reserve interment space and secure interment services in a regulated cemetery to ensure perpetual care of remains if the structure becomes abandoned or ceases operations.
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Permits not-for-profit cemetery corporations to enter into management contracts with private cemetery corporations for operational management of mausoleums or columbariums, subject to board authorization.
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Applies the same standalone mausoleum and columbarium restrictions to religious corporations with thirty acres or less of cemetery property.
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment.
Legislative Description
Prohibits the construction of any mausoleum or columbarium in a cemetery where such mausoleum or columbarium is the only form of interment offered in a cemetery, except in limited circumstances to assure the perpetual care of remains already in a mausoleum or columbarium.
Last Action
signed chap.296
10/1/2018