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NY A02524

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

1/17/2025

Primary Sponsor

William Colton

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Prohibits the purchase, sale, or transfer of veteran's commemorative property (monuments, headstones, markers, flag holders, statues, plaques, badges) that is over 75 years old and has been placed in a cemetery
  • Violations of the unauthorized sale prohibition constitute a class B misdemeanor under the penal law
  • Cemetery owners (including public, private, family, religious, or municipal cemetery corporations) may petition the state Cemetery Board for permission to sell, trade, or transfer such commemorative property
  • Approval criteria for authorized sales include: risk of physical deterioration, transfer to a suitable entity that will preserve and appropriately display the property, need for funds to maintain the cemetery, and replacement of the original item with a fitting substitute
  • If the commemorative property was donated by a veterans' organization (such as the American Legion, VFW, or Grand Army of the Republic), consent from that organization is required before any approved sale
  • The act takes effect 180 days after becoming law, allowing the Cemetery Board time to promulgate implementing regulations

Legislative Description

Prohibits the unauthorized sale, purchase or transfer of any cemetery marker, flag holder, monument, statue or other physical memorabilia that is over 75 years old that commemorates the life or death of a veteran or group of veterans, including but not limited to a military unit, company, battalion or division, if such cemetery marker, flag holder, monument, statue or other physical memorabilia that commemorates the life or death of a veteran or group of veterans has been placed in any cemetery; makes violations a class B misdemeanor; permits cemeteries to make such sales upon application to the state cemetery board and upon certain conditions.

Last Action

referred to veterans' affairs

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Veterans' Affairs1/17/2025

Full Bill Text

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