Provides for the administration of the state cemetery vandalism restoration, monument repair or removal and administration fund by the state cemetery board; removes the state comptroller and commissioner of taxation and finance from administering the fund.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7416--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 4, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. BRENNAN, MILLMAN, JAFFEE, JACOBS -- Multi-Spon-
sored by -- M. of A. COOK, P. RIVERA, TITONE -- read once and referred
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 state finance
law, in relation to the administration of the state cemetery vandalism
restoration fund by the state cemetery board
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of section 1504 of the not-for-profit corpo-
2 ration law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 6 to read as follows:
3 (6) To administer the state cemetery vandalism restoration, monument
4 repair or removal and administration fund pursuant to section ninety-
5 seven-r of the state finance law. Moneys of the fund, established by
6 section ninety-seven-r of the state finance law, may be expended for the
7 purposes provided in subparagraph three of paragraph (h) of section
8 fifteen hundred seven of this article according to the requirements of
9 such paragraph (h).
10 § 2. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 97-r of the state finance law,
11 subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 380 of the laws of 2000 and subdivi-
12 sion 3 as added by chapter 495 of the laws of 1988, are amended to read
13 as follows:
14 1. There is hereby established in the joint custody of the state
15 [comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance] cemetery
16 board a special fund to be known as the state cemetery vandalism resto-
17 ration, monument repair or removal and administration fund.
18 3. Moneys of the fund may be expended for the purposes provided in
19 subparagraph three of paragraph (h) of section fifteen hundred seven of
20 the not-for-profit corporation law according to the requirements of such
21 paragraph (h). Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 warrant of the [state comptroller] cemetery board on vouchers certified
2 or approved by [the secretary of state] a majority vote of the cemetery
3 board. Such fund shall be utilized solely for the purpose under which it
4 was created. An annual report to the state comptroller shall be provided
5 by the cemetery board no more than sixty days following the end of the
6 previous fiscal year, which details the funds received and expended for
7 such fiscal year.
8 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
9 the date on which it shall have become a law.
