Senate Bill S3952

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates 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-S3952 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6739
Law Section:
Not-for-Profit Corporation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1506, N-PC L

2019-S3952 (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-S3952 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S3952 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3952
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 21, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- 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, 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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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