Assembly Bill A6739

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the merger of cemetery corporations

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S3952 - Signed by Governor

  • 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-A6739 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3952
Law Section:
Not-for-Profit Corporation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1506, N-PC L

2019-A6739 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that two cemeteries located in Suffolk county with contiguous or adjacent land dedicated for cemetery purposes and previously operating as public cemetery corporations may merge where their total acreage does not exceed three hundred twenty-five acres.

2019-A6739 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6739
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JEAN-PIERRE -- 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  the
   merger of certain 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 added by chapter 871 of 1977, is amended and a new para-
 graph (n) is added 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 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.  Nothing  contained in this subdivision shall prevent any reli-
 gious corporation in existence  on  April  fifteenth,  eighteen  hundred
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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