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7 - Acquisition of Property by Religious Corporations for Cemetery Purposes; Management Thereof.

NY Rel Corps L § 7 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) sell, or have, enter into or perform a lease of any of its real property dedicated to cemetery purposes or adjacent thereto to a funeral entity, or use any of its property for locating a funeral entity;

(b) commingle its funds with a funeral entity;

(c) direct or carry on its cemetery related business or affairs with a funeral entity;

(d) authorize control of its cemetery related business or affairs by a funeral entity;

(e) engage in any sale or cross-marketing of goods or services with a funeral entity;

(f) have, enter into or perform a management or service contract for cemetery operations with a funeral entity; or

(g) have, enter into or perform a management contract with any entity other than a not-for-profit cemetery or religious corporation. Only the provisions of subparagraphs (a) and (b) of the previous paragraph shall apply to religious corporations with thirty acres or less of real property dedicated to cemetery purposes, and only to the extent the sale or lease is of real property dedicated to cemetery purposes, and such cemeteries shall not engage in the sale of funeral home goods or services, except if such goods and services are otherwise permitted to be sold by cemeteries. No religious corporation shall approve or authorize the construction of a mausoleum or columbarium on property owned by the religious corporation where such mausoleum or columbarium shall be the only form of interment offered for cemetery purposes unless a management contract has been entered into with an existing cemetery corporation regulated under article fifteen of the not-for-profit corporation law, that will provide operational management of the mausoleum or columbarium, and the owner of the mausoleum or columbarium has reserved interment space and secured interment services in a cemetery regulated under this article, in order to assure continued perpetual care of the remains contained in the mausoleum or columbarium should such mausoleum or columbarium become abandoned or choose to cease operations.

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7 - Acquisition of Property by Religious Corporations for Cemetery Purposes; Management Thereof.