Bill Text: NY A03688 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3688

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the definition of the term "cremation".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A03688 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03688-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3688

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the not-for-profit corporation law, in relation  to  the
          definition of cremation

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (h) of section 1502 of the not-for-profit  corpo-
     2  ration  law,  as added by chapter 579 of the laws of 2006, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (h) The term "cremation" means the technical process[,] using heat and
     5  flame[,] that reduces human remains to ashes and other  residue  or  any
     6  other  technical  process  to  reduce human remains to cremains that the
     7  cemetery board deems in the public interest and authorizes  pursuant  to
     8  regulations  promulgated  by  the  cemetery  board.    "Cremation" shall
     9  include the processing, and may include the pulverization, of such ashes
    10  and other residue.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02076-01-3