§ 290. Duties of town board. The town board shall lay out into burial lots any burial grounds conveyed to them; and within one year after conveyance to them they shall cause to be recorded in the office of the clerk of the county in which they reside a plot or plots of the ground […]
§ 291. Burial grounds. 1. The title to every lot or piece of land which shall have been used by the inhabitants of any town in this state as a cemetery or burial ground for the space of fourteen years shall be deemed to be vested in such town, and shall be subject in the […]
§ 292. Transfer of burial grounds to cemetery corporation. Any town may convey and transfer its right, title and interest in any burial grounds within the limits of and belonging to the town, or belonging to the town and individual lot owners, to a cemetery corporation authorized to hold and maintain property within the town […]
§ 292-a. Cemetery and funeral home combinations. 1. No town shall, directly or indirectly: (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 location of a funeral entity; (b) commingle […]
§ 293. Exception. All provisions of the preceding sections of this article which are inconsistent with the provisions of chapter seventy-six of the laws of eighteen hundred sixty-nine, as amended by chapter four hundred thirty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, shall not apply to Greenfield cemetery in Hempstead, Nassau county, or to the […]
§ 294. Armed forces’ burial plot. 1. The town board in each of the towns of this state may upon the application in writing of any veteran armed forces’ association in the town, or upon a petition of any writing of five or more veterans of the armed forces of the United States in towns […]
§ 295. Removal of remains of deceased members of armed forces. Upon a verified petition presented to a judge of a court of record by any armed forces’ organization in any town or city in this state by a majority of its officers, or a majority of any memorial committee in any town or city […]
§ 296. Abandonment of cemeteries. Upon a verified petition presented to a judge of a court of record by any supervisor of any town in this state, the judge to whom said verified petition is presented shall make an order to show cause, returnable before him at a time and place within the county in […]
