NY State Senate Bill 2019-S1876A

Archive: Last Bill Status - Vetoed by Governor

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
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Vetoed By Governor
Signed By Governor

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Nov 08, 2019	vetoed memo.128
Oct 28, 2019	delivered to governor
May 20, 2019	returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading cal.327 substituted for a1605a
Apr 29, 2019	referred to corporations, authorities and commissions delivered to assembly passed senate
Apr 10, 2019	advanced to third reading
Apr 09, 2019	2nd report cal.
Apr 08, 2019	1st report cal.366
Mar 20, 2019	print number 1876a
Mar 20, 2019	amend and recommit to corporations, authorities and commissions
Jan 17, 2019	referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

Votes

- Apr 29, 2019 - Floor Vote
  S1876A
  
  61
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Apr 29, 2019
      
      aye (61)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Akshar
      
      Amedore
      
      Antonacci
      
      Bailey
      
      Benjamin
      
      Biaggi
      
      Boyle
      
      Breslin
      
      Brooks
      
      Carlucci
      
      Comrie
      
      Felder
      
      Flanagan
      
      Funke
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gaughran
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Jacobs
      
      Jordan
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      LaValle
      
      Lanza
      
      Little
      
      Liu
      
      Martinez
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Metzger
      
      Montgomery
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Rivera
      
      Robach
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Savino
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serino
      
      Serrano
      
      Seward
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      excused (1)
      
      Ritchie
  Apr 8, 2019 - Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee Vote
  S1876A
  
  7
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee Vote: Apr 8, 2019
      
      aye (7)
      
      Boyle
      
      Comrie
      
      Gounardes
      
      Mayer
      
      Ramos
      
      Ranzenhofer
      
      Skoufis

Bill Amendments

Original

A (Active)

2019-S1876 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1605
Law Section:: Not-for-Profit Corporation Law
Laws Affected:: Add §1506-d, amd §1507, N-PC L; amd §291, Town L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:: S7835, A10515

2019-S1876 - Summary

Relates to the abandonment of cemeteries; notification and assistance.

2019-S1876 - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S1876

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the town law, in
relation to the abandonment of cemeteries

 
PURPOSE:

The bill would create a process through which the state and its locali-
ties are notified of the pending abandonment of state regulated ceme-
teries. This notice allows time to work towards a reorganization of the
cemetery corporation to prevent abandonment, and helps to provide an
orderly transition, if necessary, to municipal control to limit fiscal
impacts on local governments.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 adds a new section 1506-d to the Not-for-Profit Corporation
Law outlining cemetery abandonment notification requirements and assist-

ance available to prevent abandonment. Any state-regulated cemetery that
is unable to maintain operations and faces abandonment will be required
to provide notice to the State Cemetery Board and the local municipality
in which the cemetery is located, at least 180 days in advance of a
potential abandonment. This notification will trigger State Cemetery
Board involvement in an effort to prevent the abandonment.

In the event that abandonment is not preventable or operations cannot be
transferred to another regulated and solvent cemetery and the condition
of the cemetery operation prevents immediate local takeover of the ceme-
tery, a receiver may be appointed with the consent of the local govern-
ment to manage the cemetery operations until a transfer is possible. Any
costs for such receiverships would come from the already established
state abandoned cemetery fund.

Section 2 amends section 1507(h)(4) of the Not-for-Profit Corporation
Law to allow municipalities and other solvent not-for-profit cemetery
corporations to file an application to the abandoned cemetery fund 25
years after assuming maintenance of abandoned cemeteries for updating
repairs on previously constructed cemetery structures that may need
additional repair.

Section 3 would amend section 291 of the Town Law by adding a new subdi-
vision (5) to limit damages to municipalities for taking over abandoned
cemeteries.

Section 4 states that this bill shall take effect immediately..

 
JUSTIFICATION:

After many years of fiscal stress and the lack of new volunteers, many
financially fragile state-regulated cemeteries face abandonment.  Under
state law, these abandoned cemeteries become the responsibility of local
municipalities.

Most municipal governments are unprepared or unable to take over these
cemeteries immediately. In many instances, with little or no warning,
local governments find themselves responsible for cemetery operations.
This bill provides for a 180 day process that allows time for efforts to
avoid cemetery abandonment. If efforts to prevent abandonment prove
unsuccessful, it also provides for an orderly transfer of cemetery oper-
ations and access by local governments to the state's abandoned cemetery
fund to pay for costs associated with this transition.

The maintenance and operation of abandoned cemeteries also requires
long-term upkeep and repairs that may not have been discovered at the
time of the abandonment. This legislation allows municipalities or other
qualifying solvent cemeteries that have assumed responsibility for aban-
doned cemeteries to apply for additional funds, 25 years after their
initial application, to assist with repair and maintenance of cemetery
structures existing at the time of the abandonment.

Additionally, since municipalities take over maintenance of abandoned
cemeteries and do not assume title to the property, this bill provides
for protection of the municipality for assuming this control.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

A.10515 of 2018, veto memo 295.

Same as S.7835-A of 2018, veto memo 295.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act will take effect immediately.

2019-S1876 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1876
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
   and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the town law, in
   relation to the abandonment of cemeteries

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The not-for-profit corporation law is amended by adding a
 new section 1506-d to read as follows:
 § 1506-D. CEMETERY ABANDONMENT NOTIFICATION AND ASSISTANCE.
   ANY CEMETERY CORPORATION THAT SHALL HAVE INSUFFICIENT GENERAL  OPERAT-
 ING  FUNDS  WITH  WHICH  TO  CONTINUE OPERATIONS OR THAT DOES NOT HAVE A
 BOARD SUFFICIENT TO CARRY ON OPERATIONS OF THE CEMETERY,  SHALL  PROVIDE
 NOTICE  TO THE STATE CEMETERY BOARD AND THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE MUNI-
 CIPALITY OR MUNICIPALITIES IN WHICH THE CEMETERY IS LOCATED AT LEAST ONE
 HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DAYS IN ADVANCE OF THE DATE OF  EXPECTED  ABANDONMENT
 TO  A MUNICIPALITY.  UPON NOTIFICATION BY THE CEMETERY CORPORATION OR AS
 A RESULT OF A REVIEW OF THE FINANCIAL AND CORPORATE STATUS OF A CEMETERY
 CORPORATION, THE STATE CEMETERY BOARD SHALL NOTIFY THE  GOVERNING  BOARD
 OF  THE MUNICIPALITY WHERE SUCH CEMETERY CORPORATION IS LOCATED AT LEAST
 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DAYS IN ADVANCE OF THE DATE OF EXPECTED  ABANDON-
 MENT. PRIOR TO ABANDONMENT, THE STATE CEMETERY BOARD SHALL WORK WITH THE
 CEMETERY  CORPORATION  AND  THE GOVERNING BOARD OR BOARDS OF THE MUNICI-
 PALITY OR MUNICIPALITIES IN WHICH THE CEMETERY CORPORATION IS LOCATED TO
 ASSIST IN RECONSTITUTING THE BOARD OF THE CEMETERY  CORPORATION;  OR  TO
 ARRANGE TO PROVIDE THE CEMETERY CORPORATION WITH TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE IN
 OPERATING  THE  CEMETERY;  OR  TO LOCATE ANOTHER CEMETERY CORPORATION TO
 TAKE OVER THE CEMETERY CORPORATION  SEEKING  ABANDONMENT  OR  ANY  OTHER
 LAWFUL  MEASURE  THAT MIGHT PREVENT ABANDONMENT.  IN THE EVENT THE CEME-
 TERY CORPORATION BOARD IS NOT RECONSTITUTED OR IF THE CONDITION OF  SUCH
 ABANDONED  CEMETERY  PREVENTS EFFECTIVE MUNICIPAL TAKEOVER WITHIN NINETY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD07019-01-9

 S. 1876                             2
 
 DAYS OF ABANDONMENT, THE STATE CEMETERY BOARD SHALL  APPOINT,  WITH  THE
 CONSENT OF THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE MUNICIPALITY, A TEMPORARY RECEIVER
 TO  MANAGE CEMETERY OPERATIONS UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT THE CEMETERY IS IN A
 CONDITION  TO  BE  MAINTAINED  OR OPERATED BY THE MUNICIPALITY. NOTWITH-
 STANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, SUCH  FUNDS  AND  EXPENSE  FOR  THE
 TEMPORARY  RECEIVER AND REPAIRS OF THE CEMETERY SHALL BE A STATE EXPENSE
 ALLOCATED AND APPROVED AS OUTLINED IN PARAGRAPH (H) OF  SECTION  FIFTEEN
 HUNDRED SEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER.
   §  2.  Subparagraph 4 of paragraph (h) of section 1507 of the not-for-
 profit corporation law, as amended by chapter 363 of the laws  of  2009,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (4) Authorization for payments by the fund for maintenance of an aban-
 doned  cemetery  shall  be  made  by  the  secretary  of state only upon
 approval by the cemetery board of an application by  a  municipality  or
 other  solvent  not-for-profit cemetery corporation for fair and reason-
 able expenses required to be made by the municipality or  other  solvent
 not-for-profit  cemetery  corporation  for  maintenance  of an abandoned
 cemetery; provided, however, that the cemetery board shall  not  approve
 any  such  application unless the municipality or other solvent not-for-
 profit cemetery corporation acknowledges  that  the  responsibility  for
 restoration and future care, preservation, and maintenance of such ceme-
 tery  has been assumed by the municipality or other solvent not-for-pro-
 fit cemetery corporation.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, A
 MUNICIPALITY OR OTHER SOLVENT NOT-FOR-PROFIT CEMETERY CORPORATION  SHALL
 BE  PERMITTED  TO  FILE  AN  ADDITIONAL APPLICATION FOR FUNDS UNDER THIS
 SECTION, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS FOLLOWING THE DATE OF THE INITIAL APPLICATION
 FOR THE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF ANY STRUCTURES ON THE CEMETERY GROUNDS
 ONLY WHERE SUCH STRUCTURES WERE CONSTRUCTED PRECEDING THE DATE OF  ABAN-
 DONMENT OF THE CEMETERY CORPORATION. For the purposes of this paragraph,
 such cemetery shall always be deemed an abandoned cemetery.
   §  3.  Section 291 of the town law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
 sion 5 to read as follows:
   5. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, NO TOWN SHALL BE LIABLE
 FOR ANY DAMAGES OR INJURIES SUSTAINED BY ANY PERSON OR PROPERTY  ASSOCI-
 ATED  WITH A CEMETERY ABANDONED TO THE TOWN FOR ANY CAUSE OF ACTION THAT
 OCCURRED PRIOR TO THE TAKEOVER OF SAID CEMETERY BY THE TOWN AND IN ADDI-
 TION, NO CAUSE OF ACTION FOR SUCH DAMAGES SHALL BE MAINTAINED AND  ADJU-
 DICATED  BY ANY COURT IN THIS STATE WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE JURISDIC-
 TION TO ADJUDICATE SUCH CLAIM.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

co-Sponsors

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1605
Law Section:: Not-for-Profit Corporation Law
Laws Affected:: Add §1506-d, amd §1507, N-PC L; amd §291, Town L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:: S7835, A10515

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the abandonment of cemeteries; notification and assistance.

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S1876A

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and
the town law, in relation to the abandonment of cemeteries

 
PURPOSE:

The bill would create a process through which the state and its locali-
ties are notified of the pending abandonment of state regulated ceme-
teries. This notice allows time to work towards a reorganization of the
cemetery corporation to prevent abandonment, and helps to provide an
orderly transition, if necessary, to municipal control to limit fiscal
impacts on local governments.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 adds a new section 1506-d to the Not-for-Profit Corporation
Law outlining cemetery abandonment notification requirements and assist-
ance available to prevent abandonment. Any state-regulated cemetery that
is unable to maintain operations and faces abandonment will be required

to provide notice to the State Cemetery Board and the local municipality
in which the cemetery is located, at least 180 days in advance of a
potential abandonment. This notification will trigger State Cemetery
Board involvement in an effort to prevent the abandonment.

In the event that abandonment is not preventable or operations cannot be
transferred to another regulated and solvent cemetery and the condition
of the cemetery operation prevents immediate local takeover of the ceme-
tery, a request for the appointment of a temporary receiver may be made
to the Attorney General with the consent of the local government to
manage the cemetery operations until a transfer is possible. Any costs
for such receiverships would come from the already established state
abandoned cemetery fund.

Section 2 amends section 1507(h)(4) of the Not-for-Profit Corporation
Law to allow municipalities and other solvent not-for-profit cemetery
corporations that assumed control of abandoned cemeteries after January
1st, 2015 to file an application to the abandoned cemetery fund 25 years
after assuming maintenance of abandoned cemeteries for updating repairs
on previously constructed cemetery structures that may need additional
repair.

Section 3 would amend section 291 of the Town Law by adding a new subdi-
vision (5) to limit damages for prior actions that occurred before muni-
cipalities take over abandoned cemeteries.

Section 4 states that this bill shall take effect immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

After many years of fiscal stress and the lack of new volunteers, many
financially fragile state-regulated cemeteries face abandonment. Under
state law, these abandoned cemeteries become the responsibility of local
municipalities.

Most municipal governments are unprepared or unable to take over these
cemeteries immediately. In many instances, with little or no warning,
local governments find themselves responsible for cemetery operations.
This bill provides for a 180 day process that allows time for efforts to
avoid cemetery abandonment. If efforts to prevent abandonment prove
unsuccessful, it also provides for an orderly transfer of cemetery oper-
ations and access by local governments to the state's abandoned cemetery
fund to pay for costs associated with this transition.

The maintenance and operation of abandoned cemeteries also requires
long-term upkeep and repairs that may not have been discovered at the
time of the abandonment. This legislation allows municipalities or other
qualifying solvent cemeteries that have assumed responsibility for aban-
doned cemeteries to apply for additional funds, 25 years after their
initial application, to assist with repair and maintenance of cemetery
structures existing at the time of the abandonment.

Additionally, since municipalities take over maintenance of abandoned
cemeteries and do not assume title to the property, this bill provides
for protection of the municipality for assuming this control.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

A.10515 of 2018, veto memo 295.

Same as S.7835-A of 2018, veto memo 295.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act will take effect immediately.

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1876--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 17, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,
   Authorities  and  Commissions  --  committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the town law,  in
   relation to the abandonment of cemeteries
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The not-for-profit corporation law is amended by  adding  a
 new section 1506-d to read as follows:
 § 1506-D. CEMETERY ABANDONMENT NOTIFICATION AND ASSISTANCE.
   ANY  CEMETERY CORPORATION THAT SHALL HAVE INSUFFICIENT GENERAL OPERAT-
 ING FUNDS WITH WHICH TO CONTINUE OPERATIONS OR  THAT  DOES  NOT  HAVE  A
 BOARD  SUFFICIENT  TO CARRY ON OPERATIONS OF THE CEMETERY, SHALL PROVIDE
 NOTICE TO THE STATE CEMETERY BOARD AND THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE  MUNI-
 CIPALITY OR MUNICIPALITIES IN WHICH THE CEMETERY IS LOCATED AT LEAST ONE
 HUNDRED  AND  EIGHTY DAYS IN ADVANCE OF THE DATE OF EXPECTED ABANDONMENT
 TO A MUNICIPALITY.  UPON NOTIFICATION BY THE CEMETERY CORPORATION OR  AS
 A RESULT OF A REVIEW OF THE FINANCIAL AND CORPORATE STATUS OF A CEMETERY
 CORPORATION,  THE  STATE CEMETERY BOARD SHALL NOTIFY THE GOVERNING BOARD
 OF THE MUNICIPALITY WHERE SUCH CEMETERY CORPORATION IS LOCATED AT  LEAST
 ONE  HUNDRED AND TWENTY DAYS IN ADVANCE OF THE DATE OF EXPECTED ABANDON-
 MENT. PRIOR TO ABANDONMENT, THE STATE CEMETERY BOARD SHALL WORK WITH THE
 CEMETERY CORPORATION AND THE GOVERNING BOARD OR BOARDS  OF  THE  MUNICI-
 PALITY OR MUNICIPALITIES IN WHICH THE CEMETERY CORPORATION IS LOCATED TO
 ASSIST  IN  RECONSTITUTING  THE BOARD OF THE CEMETERY CORPORATION; OR TO
 ARRANGE TO PROVIDE THE CEMETERY CORPORATION WITH TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE IN
 OPERATING THE CEMETERY; OR TO LOCATE  ANOTHER  CEMETERY  CORPORATION  TO
 TAKE  OVER  THE  CEMETERY  CORPORATION  SEEKING ABANDONMENT OR ANY OTHER
 LAWFUL MEASURE THAT MIGHT PREVENT ABANDONMENT.  IN THE EVENT  THE  CEME-
 TERY  CORPORATION BOARD IS NOT RECONSTITUTED OR IF THE CONDITION OF SUCH
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD07019-03-9

 S. 1876--A                          2
 
 ABANDONED CEMETERY PREVENTS EFFECTIVE MUNICIPAL TAKEOVER  WITHIN  NINETY
 DAYS OF ABANDONMENT, THE STATE CEMETERY BOARD SHALL, WITH THE CONSENT OF
 THE  GOVERNING  BOARD  OF THE MUNICIPALITY, REQUEST THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
 SEEK  COURT APPOINTMENT OF A TEMPORARY RECEIVER TO MANAGE CEMETERY OPER-
 ATIONS UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT THE CEMETERY IS IN A CONDITION TO  BE  MAIN-
 TAINED  OR  OPERATED  BY  THE  MUNICIPALITY.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY OTHER
 PROVISION OF LAW, SUCH FUNDS AND EXPENSE FOR THE TEMPORARY RECEIVER  AND
 REPAIRS  OF THE CEMETERY SHALL BE A STATE EXPENSE ALLOCATED AND APPROVED
 AS OUTLINED IN PARAGRAPH (H) OF SECTION FIFTEEN HUNDRED  SEVEN  OF  THIS
 CHAPTER.
   §  2.  Subparagraph 4 of paragraph (h) of section 1507 of the not-for-
 profit corporation law, as amended by chapter 363 of the laws  of  2009,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (4) Authorization for payments by the fund for maintenance of an aban-
 doned  cemetery  shall  be  made  by  the  secretary  of state only upon
 approval by the cemetery board of an application by  a  municipality  or
 other  solvent  not-for-profit cemetery corporation for fair and reason-
 able expenses required to be made by the municipality or  other  solvent
 not-for-profit  cemetery  corporation  for  maintenance  of an abandoned
 cemetery; provided, however, that the cemetery board shall  not  approve
 any  such  application unless the municipality or other solvent not-for-
 profit cemetery corporation acknowledges  that  the  responsibility  for
 restoration and future care, preservation, and maintenance of such ceme-
 tery  has been assumed by the municipality or other solvent not-for-pro-
 fit cemetery corporation.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, A
 MUNICIPALITY OR OTHER SOLVENT NOT-FOR-PROFIT CEMETERY CORPORATION HAVING
 ASSUMED MANAGEMENT OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR AN ABANDONED CEMETERY UNDER THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION AFTER JANUARY  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  FIFTEEN
 SHALL  BE  PERMITTED  TO  FILE AN ADDITIONAL APPLICATION FOR FUNDS UNDER
 THIS SECTION, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS FOLLOWING THE DATE OF THE INITIAL APPLI-
 CATION FOR THE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF ANY STRUCTURES ON THE  CEMETERY
 GROUNDS  ONLY  WHERE SUCH STRUCTURES WERE CONSTRUCTED PRECEDING THE DATE
 OF ABANDONMENT OF THE CEMETERY CORPORATION. For  the  purposes  of  this
 paragraph, such cemetery shall always be deemed an abandoned cemetery.
   §  3.  Section 291 of the town law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
 sion 5 to read as follows:
   5. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, NO TOWN SHALL BE LIABLE
 FOR ANY DAMAGES OR INJURIES SUSTAINED BY ANY PERSON OR PROPERTY  ASSOCI-
 ATED  WITH A CEMETERY ABANDONED TO THE TOWN FOR ANY CAUSE OF ACTION THAT
 OCCURRED PRIOR TO THE TAKEOVER OF SAID CEMETERY BY THE TOWN AND IN ADDI-
 TION, NO CAUSE OF ACTION FOR SUCH DAMAGES SHALL BE MAINTAINED AND  ADJU-
 DICATED  BY ANY COURT IN THIS STATE WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE JURISDIC-
 TION TO ADJUDICATE SUCH CLAIM.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Senate Bill S1876A

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - Vetoed by Governor

Apr 29, 2019 - Floor Vote

Floor Vote: Apr 29, 2019

Apr 8, 2019 - Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee Vote

Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee Vote: Apr 8, 2019

Bill Amendments

2019-S1876 - Details

2019-S1876 - Summary

2019-S1876 - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1876 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Details

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

Comments

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Sponsored By

Leroy Comrie

Archive: Last Bill Status - Vetoed by Governor

Bill Amendments

2019-S1876 - Details

2019-S1876 - Summary

2019-S1876 - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1876 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

Michael H. Ranzenhofer

Timothy M. Kennedy

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Details

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1876A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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