Terms Used In New York Laws > Vehicle and Traffic > Title 12 > Article 49 - Effect of and Short Title of Chapter

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• cemetery board: means the cemetery board in the division of cemeteries in the department of state. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• cemetery corporation: means any corporation formed under a general or special law for the disposal or burial of deceased human beings, by cremation, natural organic reduction or in a grave, mausoleum, vault, columbarium or other receptacle but does not include a family cemetery corporation or a private cemetery corporation. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• interment: means the permanent disposition of human remains by inurnment, entombment or ground burial. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• monuments: means a memorial erected in a cemetery on a lot, plot or part thereof, except private mausoleums. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• nonsectarian burial society: means a corporation or unincorporated association or society having among its activities or its former activities the provision of burial benefits for its members and not supervised or controlled by a religious corporation. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• owner of a lot: means any person having a lawful title to the use of a niche, crypt, lot, plot or part thereof, in a cemetery, mausoleum or columbarium. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502
• religious burial society: means a corporation or unincorporated association or society having among its activities or its former activities the provision of burial benefits for its members and supervised or controlled by a religious corporation. See N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1502