N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1510-B – Availability for interment on six-day basis
§ 1510-b. Availability for interment on six-day basis.
Terms Used In N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1510-B
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- interment: means the permanent disposition of human remains by inurnment, entombment or ground burial. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
Every cemetery corporation shall be available for interments at least six days per week, excluding legal holidays, as set forth in the cemetery's regulations or in accordance with its practices. Any cemetery which maintains and designates a burial section for persons of a particular religious belief must remain available for grave openings and interments Sunday through Friday or other six-day period in accordance with the religious and/or ethnic traditions of the persons interred in said religious section. Nothing in this section shall require a cemetery to provide grave openings and/or interments if they are otherwise unable to do so as to direct consequence of severe weather conditions or other similar conditions.