Provides that a crematory or crematorium operated by a funeral entity may add an additional retort expressly and solely for use in an instance of mechanical or technical failure of an existing retort; makes related provisions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6601
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 28, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
and Commissions
AN ACT to amend chapter 560 of the laws of 1998, amending the not-for-
profit corporation law and other laws, relating to combinations of
cemetery corporations and funeral entities, and the sale of monuments
and memorials, in relation to certain crematory or crematorium oper-
ated by a funeral entity
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 14 of chapter 560 of the laws of 1998, amending the
2 not-for-profit corporation law and other laws, relating to combinations
3 of cemetery corporations and funeral entities, and the sale of monuments
4 and memorials, is amended by adding a new subdivision 3 to read as
5 follows:
6 3. For the purposes of this section and provided that the funeral
7 entity complies with paragraph (b) of section fifteen hundred three of
8 the not-for-profit corporation law, where applicable, and all other
9 applicable laws and regulations, a crematory or crematorium operated by
10 a funeral entity may add an additional retort expressly and solely for
11 use in an instance of mechanical or technical failure of an existing
12 retort. Any such addition of a retort expressly and solely for use in
13 an instance of mechanical or technical failure of an existing retort
14 shall not diminish or otherwise affect the ability of a crematory or
15 crematorium to be operated by a funeral entity as provided in this
16 section. Nothing in this act shall entitle a crematory or crematorium
17 operated by a funeral entity to expand its operations or otherwise
18 permit noncompliance with the provisions of this act.
19 § 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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