N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1516 – Sale of monuments
§ 1516. Sale of monuments.
Terms Used In N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law 1516
- 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
- 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.
- 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
(a) No cemetery corporation shall engage in the sale of monuments, not including flush bronze markers, nor shall such monuments be displayed for sale on the property of a cemetery corporation.
(b) No cemetery corporation shall authorize or permit any employee or director thereof to advertise or make known his or her relationship to such corporation while engaged in the sale of monuments outside of his or her employment by the cemetery corporation.
(c) With regard to the sale of flush granite markers, the cemetery board shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations to exempt cemetery corporations from the provisions of paragraph (a) of this section where a practice for the sale of such flush granite markers was established with the knowledge and approval of the cemetery board prior to the effective date of this section.