Assembly Bill A9089

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires consent prior to the merger of cemetery corporations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A9089 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7155
Law Section:
Not-for-Profit Corporation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1506, add §1506-d, N-PC L

2019-A9089 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires consent prior to the merger of cemetery corporations by the cemetery board.

2019-A9089 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9089
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  not-for-profit  corporation law, in relation to
   requiring consent prior to the merger of cemetery corporations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Paragraph (c) of section 1506 of the not-for-profit corpo-
 ration law, as amended by chapter 553 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (c)  Cemeteries  in  Kings,  Queens,  Rockland,  Westchester,  Nassau,
 Suffolk, Putnam and Erie counties. A cemetery corporation shall not take
 by  deed, devise, MERGER or otherwise any land in the counties of Kings,
 Queens, Rockland, Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam or Erie for ceme-
 tery purposes, or set apart any ground therefor in any of such counties,
 unless the consent of the board of supervisors or legislative body ther-
 eof, or of the city council of the city of New York, in respect to Kings
 or Queens county, be first obtained [except as provided in paragraph (n)
 of this section]. Such consent may be granted upon such  conditions  and
 under such regulations and restrictions as the public health and welfare
 may  require. Notice of application for such consent shall be published,
 once a week for six weeks, in the newspapers designated to  publish  the
 session  laws  and  in  such other newspapers published in the county as
 such board or body may direct, stating the  time  when  the  application
 will  be made, a brief description of the lands proposed to be acquired,
 their location and the area thereof. Any person interested  therein  may
 be  heard  on  such  presentation. If such consent is granted the corpo-
 ration may take and hold the lands designated therein. The consent shall
 not authorize any one corporation to take or hold more than two  hundred
 and  fifty  acres  of  land [except as provided in paragraph (n) of this
 section], EXCEPT THAT SUCH LIMITATION SHALL NOT APPLY IN THE EVENT OF  A
 MERGER  OF CEMETERY CORPORATIONS.  Nothing contained in this subdivision
 shall prevent any religious corporation in existence on April fifteenth,
 eighteen hundred fifty-four, in any of said counties from using as here-
 tofore any burial ground then belonging to it within such  county.  Such
 board or body, from time to time, may make such regulation as to burials
 in any cemetery in the county as the public health may require.
              

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