Senate Bill S6806

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the sale of cemetery monuments

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee


  • 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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2023-S6806 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Religious Corporations Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §7, Rel Corp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S4610
2021-2022: S6514

2023-S6806 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the sale of monuments; provides no religious corporation owning, managing or controlling a cemetery shall, directly or indirectly, engage in the sale of monuments, or authorize or permit any employee or trustee or director thereof to advertise or make known his or her relationship to such religious corporation or cemetery if such person is engaged in the sale of monuments outside of his or her employment by or affiliation with the religious corporation or the cemetery.

2023-S6806 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6806 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6806
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS,  ADDABBO, RYAN -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Corpo-
   rations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT to amend the religious corporations law, in relation to the sale
   of monuments
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The fourth undesignated paragraph and the closing paragraph
 of  section 7 of the religious corporations law, the fourth undesignated
 paragraph as added by chapter 560 of the laws of 1998  and  the  closing
 paragraph  as amended by chapter 296 of the laws of 2018, are amended to
 read as follows:
   No religious corporation owning, managing or  controlling  a  cemetery
 shall, directly or indirectly:
   (a)  sell,  or  have, enter into or perform a lease of any of its real
 property dedicated to cemetery purposes or adjacent thereto to a funeral
 entity, or use any of its property for locating a funeral entity;
   (b) commingle its funds with a funeral entity;
   (c) direct or carry on its cemetery related business or affairs with a
 funeral entity;
   (d) authorize control of its cemetery related business or affairs by a
 funeral entity;
   (e) engage in any sale or cross-marketing of goods or services with  a
 funeral entity;
   (f)  have,  enter into or perform a management or service contract for
 cemetery operations with a funeral entity; [or]
   (g) have, enter into or perform a management contract with any  entity
 other than a not-for-profit cemetery or religious corporation[.];
   (H)  ENGAGE IN THE SALE OF MONUMENTS, NOT INCLUDING FLUSH BRONZE MARK-
 ERS, NOR SHALL SUCH MONUMENTS BE DISPLAYED FOR SALE ON THE PROPERTY OF A
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11189-01-3
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