STATE OF NEW YORK
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413
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, PAULIN, GALEF, WEPRIN, JAFFEE, HOOPER,
KATZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. TITONE -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the right to
contract for the burial of cremains in pet cemeteries and requiring
notice related thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new
2 section 750-vv to read as follows:
3 § 750-vv. Burial of cremains; notice required. Pet cemetery owners and
4 operators who allow for the burial of cremains, as defined in subdivi-
5 sion two of section forty-two hundred two of the public health law, of
6 pet owners with their pets may charge a reasonable fee for such burial
7 and must provide notice to anyone who seeks to bury a pet owner's
8 cremains with the pet owner's pet before any contract is signed or
9 consideration is paid for such burial, which notice shall be in fourteen
10 point bold type and state the following: "THIS IS A PET CEMETERY UNDER
11 THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW (ARTICLE 35-C). IT IS NOT A CEMETERY UNDER THE
12 NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION LAW (ARTICLE 15). WHILE HUMAN CREMAINS MAY BE
13 BURIED IN A PET CEMETERY, SUCH CREMAINS ARE NOT COVERED BY ANY OF THE
14 PROTECTIONS PROVIDED TO HUMAN CREMAINS UNDER THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPO-
15 RATION LAW."
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03404-01-5
