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                                   3785
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2017
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 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the not-for-profit corporation law, in relation to the
   regulation of cemetery corporations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  1501  of  the not-for-profit corporation law, as
 added by chapter 871 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
 § 1501. Declaration of policy.
   The people of this state have a vital interest in  the  establishment,
 maintenance  and  preservation of [public] burial grounds and the proper
 operation of the corporations which own and manage the same.  This arti-
 cle is determined an exercise of the police  powers  of  this  state  to
 protect  the  well-being  of our citizens, to promote the public welfare
 and to prevent cemeteries from falling into disrepair  and  dilapidation
 and  becoming  a  burden  upon  the community, and in furtherance of the
 public policy of this state that cemeteries  shall  be  conducted  on  a
 non-profit  basis  for  the mutual benefit of plot owners therein.  THIS
 VITAL INTEREST SHALL BE PROTECTED AND THE UNIQUENESS OF  THESE  ENTITIES
 SHALL  BE  AFFIRMED  BY  PROVIDING THE STATE WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR
 SOLE JURISDICTION OF THE REGULATION OF CEMETERIES AS SET FORTH  IN  THIS
 ARTICLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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