Directs counties and the city of New York to contact a veterans' organization to provide for the disposition of the unclaimed remains of a deceased veteran when such veteran has no next of kin or other person designated to provide for the disposition of his or her remains.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3477--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 23, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home-
land Security and Military Affairs -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to directing
counties and the city of New York to request a congressionally char-
tered veterans' organization to arrange for the funeral and burial of
a deceased veteran who has no next of kin or other person to make such
arrangements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1-a of section 148 of the
2 general municipal law, as amended by chapter 29 of the laws of 2016, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, in the case
5 of a veteran, as defined in section forty-two hundred three of the
6 public health law, who died in a county or the city of New York leaving
7 no funds or insurance sufficient to pay funeral and burial expenses of
8 such veteran and such veteran has no next of kin or person of record
9 previously designated to control his or her final disposition pursuant
10 to section four thousand two hundred one of the public health law, such
11 county or the city of New York [may] shall request a congressionally
12 chartered veterans' organization within the county or the city of New
13 York where the decedent resided at the time of death, to engage the
14 services of a funeral firm to conduct the funeral and burial services.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
16 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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