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NY S02606
Bill
Status
1/13/2017
Primary Sponsor
Elizabeth Little
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AI Summary
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Prohibits approval of stand-alone mausoleum or columbarium construction where it is the only form of interment offered by a cemetery corporation, unless a management agreement exists with an existing regulated cemetery corporation.
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Requires owners of stand-alone mausoleums or columbariums to reserve interment space and secure interment services at a regulated cemetery to ensure perpetual care if the stand-alone facility becomes abandoned or ceases operations.
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Applies restrictions to cemetery boards, municipal corporations, towns, villages, and religious corporations with property dedicated to cemetery purposes.
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Permits not-for-profit cemetery corporations to enter into management contracts with private cemetery corporations if authorized by the board of the not-for-profit corporation.
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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
SUBSTITUTED BY A5784B
6/19/2018