Bill Text: NY A07817 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that a crematory or crematorium operated by a funeral entity may add an additional retort expressly and solely for use in an instance of mechanical or technical failure of an existing retort; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A07817 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07817-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7817

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 15, 2023
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to amend chapter 560 of the laws of 1998, amending the not-for-
          profit corporation law and other laws,  relating  to  combinations  of
          cemetery  corporations and funeral entities, and the sale of monuments
          and memorials, in relation to certain crematory or  crematorium  oper-
          ated by a funeral entity

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

     1    Section 1. Section 14 of chapter 560 of the laws of 1998, amending the
     2  not-for-profit corporation law and other laws, relating to  combinations
     3  of cemetery corporations and funeral entities, and the sale of monuments
     4  and  memorials,  is  amended  by  adding  a new subdivision 3 to read as
     5  follows:
     6    3. For the purposes of this section  and  provided  that  the  funeral
     7  entity  complies  with paragraph (b) of section fifteen hundred three of
     8  the not-for-profit corporation law,  where  applicable,  and  all  other
     9  applicable  laws and regulations, a crematory or crematorium operated by
    10  a funeral entity may add an additional retort expressly and  solely  for
    11  use  in  an  instance  of mechanical or technical failure of an existing
    12  retort.  Any such addition of a retort expressly and solely for  use  in
    13  an  instance  of  mechanical  or technical failure of an existing retort
    14  shall not diminish or otherwise affect the ability  of  a  crematory  or
    15  crematorium  to  be  operated  by  a  funeral entity as provided in this
    16  section. Nothing in this act shall entitle a  crematory  or  crematorium
    17  operated  by  a  funeral  entity  to  expand its operations or otherwise
    18  permit noncompliance with the provisions of this act.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10825-01-3