New York Not-For-Profit Corporation Law Article 15 - PUBLIC CEMETERY CORPORATIONS

• 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...
• 1502 - Definitions.
  As used in this article: (a) The term "cemetery corporation" means any corporation formed under a general or special law for the disposal or burial...
• 1503 - Application.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this section, paragraph (c) of section fifteen hundred seven, and paragraph (m) of section fifteen hundred...
• 1504 - Cemetery Board and General Administration.
  (a) A cemetery board is hereby created within the division of cemeteries in the department of state, subject to the following requirements: (1) The members...
• 1505 - Special Requirements of Incorporation.
  (a) Certificate of incorporation; additional contents. In addition to the requirements of section four hundred two (Certificate of incorporation; contents), the certificate of incorporation of...
• 1505-a - Additional Requirements for Incorporation of Crematories.
  (a) Approval. A cemetery corporation seeking the approval to operate a crematory must submit for approval by the cemetery board the following: (1) a list...
• 1506 - Cemetery Lands.
  (a) Purchase of land; notice to cemetery board. No cemetery corporation, in purchasing real property hereafter, shall pay or agree to pay more than the...
• 1506-a - Cemetery Corporations; Restrictions.
  (a) No cemetery corporation shall, directly or indirectly: (1) sell, or have, enter into or perform a lease of any of its real property to...
• 1506-b - Transfer of Lands of Valley View Rural Cemetery.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the board of trustees of the Valley View Rural Cemetery Association in the town of Dover...
• 1506-c - Abandoned Cemetery Maintenance by Cemetery Corporations.
  (a) Upon application and approval by the cemetery board, a cemetery corporation may assume management and maintenance of an abandoned cemetery. For the purposes of...
• 1507 - Trust Funds.
  (a) Maintenance and preservation; permanent maintenance fund; current maintenance fund. Subject to rules and regulations of the cemetery board: (1) Every cemetery corporation shall maintain...
• 1507-a - State Cemetery Board Citizens Advisory Council.
  (a) There is hereby created a state cemetery board citizens advisory council, to study, investigate, monitor and make recommendations with respect to the maintenance and...
• 1508 - Reports by Cemeteries.
  (a) Annual report. Each cemetery corporation shall, on or before the fifteenth day of March after the end of its calendar year, or if on...
• 1509 - Cemetery Rules and Regulations; Charges and Lot Tax Assessments.
  (a) Rules and regulations. The directors of a cemetery corporation shall make reasonable rules and regulations for the use, care, management and protection of the...
• 1510 - Cemetery Duties.
  (a) Posting and distribution of rules, regulations, charges and prices. The rules, regulations, charges, and prices of lots, plots or parts thereof shall be suitably...
• 1510-a - Repair or Removal of Monuments.
  (a) Cemetery corporations may repair or remove any monuments or other markers not owned by the cemetery corporation that have fallen into disrepair or dilapidation...
• 1510-b - Availability for Interment on Six-Day Basis.
  Every cemetery corporation shall be available for interments at least six days per week, excluding legal holidays, as set forth in the cemetery's regulations or...
• 1511 - Cemetery Indebtedness.
  (a) Certificates of indebtedness. (1) If a cemetery corporation be indebted for lands purchased for cemetery purposes, or for services rendered or materials furnished in...
• 1512 - Rights of Lot Owners.
  (a) Lots; indivisible and inalienable. All lots, plots or parts thereof, the use of which has been conveyed as a separate lot, shall be indivisible,...
• 1513 - Sale of Burial Rights.
  (a) Conveyance of lots. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision the right to use any lot, plot or part thereof may be sold...
• 1513-a - Reacquisition of a Lot, Plot or Part Thereof by a Cemetery Corporation.
  A cemetery corporation may, upon application and approval by the cemetery board, reacquire, resubdivide, and resell a lot, plot or part thereof under the following...
• 1514 - Misdemeanor; General Penalty.
  Wherever under the provisions of this article a person violating any part thereof is deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanor and no specific penalty...
• 1515 - Actions Affecting Cemetery Corporations.
  In any action or proceeding affecting or instituted by any cemetery corporation the cemetery board shall be served with notice thereof in the same manner...
• 1516 - Sale of Monuments.
  (a) No cemetery corporation shall engage in the sale of monuments, not including flush bronze markers, nor shall such monuments be displayed for sale on...
• 1517 - Crematory Operations.
  Cemetery corporations that operate a crematory shall have the following duties and obligations: (a) Maintenance and privacy. (1) A crematory facility shall be maintained in...

Last modified: February 3, 2019