Bill Text: NY A03740 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-29 - enacting clause stricken [A03740 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03740-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3740
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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.
                                                                   LBD07528-01-7