What's happening
This bill gives the state cemetery board authority to administer the cemetery vandalism restoration fund and requires annual reporting.
Why it matters
Centralizes management of cemetery vandalism restoration funds. under the state cemetery board, potentially streamlining decision-making and ensuring that experts in cemetery operations control disbursement and oversight.
Removes financial administration responsibility from the state comptroller and secretary of state,. shifting oversight and voucher approval to the cemetery board itself, which could result in more responsive or specialized handling of restoration and repair projects.
Mandates annual public reporting by the cemetery board. about fund receipts and expenditures, increasing transparency and accountability regarding how restoration funds are used and potentially improving public trust in the process.
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Protect Cemetery Monuments Fund
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Enacting clause stricken
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
- Referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
State Board Runs Cemetery Fund
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Pamela Helming
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3848
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the not-for-profit corporation law and the state finance law, in relation to the administration of the state cemetery vandalism restoration fund by the state cemetery board
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (c) of section 1504 of the not-for-profit corporation law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 6 to read as follows:
(6) To administer the state cemetery vandalism restoration, monument repair or removal and administration fund pursuant to section ninetyseven-r of the state finance law. Moneys of the fund, established by section ninety-seven-r of the state finance law, may be expended for the purposes provided in subparagraph three of paragraph (h) of section fifteen hundred seven of this article according to the requirements of such paragraph (h).
§ 2. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 97-r of the state finance law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 380 of the laws of 2000 and subdivision 3 as added by chapter 495 of the laws of 1988, are amended to read as follows:
1. There is hereby established in the [joint] custody of the state [comptroller and the commissioner of taxation and finance] cemetery board a special fund to be known as the state cemetery vandalism restoration, monument repair or removal and administration fund.
3. Moneys of the fund may be expended for the purposes provided in subparagraph three of paragraph (h) of section fifteen hundred seven of the not-for-profit corporation law according to the requirements of such paragraph (h). Moneys shall be paid out of the fund on the audit and warrant of the [state comptroller] cemetery board on vouchers certified or approved by [the secretary of state] a majority vote of the cemetery board. Such fund shall be utilized solely for the purpose under which it
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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was created. An annual report to the state comptroller shall be provided by the cemetery board no more than sixty days following the end of the previous fiscal year, which details the funds received and expended for such fiscal year.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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