Bill Text: NY S02269 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [S02269 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02269-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2269
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 23, 2019
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        Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed 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.
                                                                   LBD00838-01-9