Bill Text: NY A10170 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the administration of the state cemetery vandalism restoration, monument repair or removal and administration fund by the state cemetery board; removes the state comptroller and commissioner of taxation and finance from administering the fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-22 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A10170 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10170-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10170
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 22, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, 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 Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of section 1504 of the not-for-profit  corpo-
     2  ration law is amended by adding a new subparagraph 6 to read as follows:
     3    (6)  To  administer the state cemetery vandalism restoration, monument
     4  repair or removal and administration fund pursuant  to  section  ninety-
     5  seven-r  of  the  state  finance law. Moneys of the fund, established by
     6  section ninety-seven-r of the state finance law, may be expended for the
     7  purposes provided in subparagraph three  of  paragraph  (h)  of  section
     8  fifteen  hundred  seven of this article according to the requirements of
     9  such paragraph (h).
    10    § 2. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 97-r of the  state  finance  law,
    11  subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 380 of the laws of 2000 and subdivi-
    12  sion  3 as added by chapter 495 of the laws of 1988, are amended to read
    13  as follows:
    14    1. There is hereby established in the [joint]  custody  of  the  state
    15  [comptroller  and  the  commissioner  of  taxation and finance] cemetery
    16  board a special fund to be known as the state cemetery vandalism  resto-
    17  ration, monument repair or removal and administration fund.
    18    3.  Moneys  of  the  fund may be expended for the purposes provided in
    19  subparagraph three of paragraph (h) of section fifteen hundred seven  of
    20  the not-for-profit corporation law according to the requirements of such
    21  paragraph  (h).  Moneys  shall  be paid out of the fund on the audit and
    22  warrant of the [state comptroller] cemetery board on vouchers  certified
    23  or  approved by [the secretary of state] a majority vote of the cemetery
    24  board. Such fund shall be utilized solely for the purpose under which it
    25  was created. An annual report to the state comptroller shall be provided
    26  by the cemetery board no more than sixty days following the end  of  the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  previous  fiscal year, which details the funds received and expended for
     2  such fiscal year.
     3    §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
     4  the date on which it shall have become a law.