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Assembly Bill A8771

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires the guardian of a deceased incapacitated person to notify the local department of social services within 20 days of such death

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2009-A8771 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5833
Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §81.44, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A7384

2009-A8771 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the guardian of a deceased incapacitated person to notify the local department of social services within 20 days of such death.

2009-A8771 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A8771 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8771

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 5, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  P. RIVERA  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disa-
  bilities

AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  notifying  the
  local department of social services upon the death of an incapacitated
  person

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (c)  of  section  81.44  of  the
mental  hygiene  law,  as  added  by chapter 175 of the laws of 2008, is
amended to read as follows:
  1. serve a copy of the statement of death upon the court examiner, the
duly appointed personal representative of the decedent's estate, or,  if
no  [person]  PERSONAL  representative has been appointed, then upon the
personal representative named  in  the  decedent's  will  or  any  trust
instrument,  if  known, UPON THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES and
upon the public administrator of the chief fiscal officer of the  county
in which the guardian was appointed, and
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14191-01-9

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