New Jersey A 3909: Amends appropriations act to include number of degrees awarded to veterans in Outcomes-Based Allocation funding for senior public institutions of higher education.

Bill Text

A3909 

ASSEMBLY, No. 3909 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman ROBERT J. KARABINCHAK

District 18 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman STERLEY S. STANLEY

District 18 (Middlesex)

SYNOPSIS

���� Allows for operation of crematories at locations not 
situated on cemetery grounds or funeral home properties.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning the location and operation of crematories, 
amending P.L.2011, c.230, and amending and supplementing P.L.2003, c.261.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 2 of P.L.2003, 
c.261 (C.45:27-2) is amended to read as follows:

���� 2.��� "Annual, endowed or 
special care" means care or maintenance of an individual interment space 
provided for by agreement between the cemetery and the owner of the space.

���� "Board" means the 
New Jersey Cemetery and Crematory Board.

���� "Burial" means 
disposition of human remains by placing them in a grave or crypt, but does not 
include their temporary storage.

���� "Burial right" means 
a right for the burial of human remains in a particular grave or crypt created 
by contract between a person and a cemetery.

���� "Cemetery" means any 
land or place used or dedicated for use for burial of human remains, cremation 
of human remains, or disposition of cremated human remains.

���� "Cemetery company" 
means a person that owns, manages, operates or controls a cemetery, directly or 
indirectly, but does not include a religious organization that owns a cemetery 
which restricts burials to members of that religion or their families unless 
the organization has obtained a certificate of authority for the cemetery.

���� "Columbarium" means 
a building or structure containing niches for placement of cremated human 
remains.

���� "Cremated human 
remains" means the recoverable bone fragments and container residue 
resulting from the process of cremation. 

���� "Cremation" means 
the process of reducing human remains to bone fragments through flame, heat and 
vaporization.

���� �Cremation company� means a 
person that owns, manages, operates or controls a crematory, directly or 
indirectly, that is a stand-alone facility located on property owned or leased 
by the cremation company and that is separate and apart from a cemetery and 
funeral home. 

���� "Crematory" means a 
structure containing cremation chambers used to cremate human remains.

���� "Crypt" means an 
interment space in a mausoleum or other structure, above or below ground.

���� "Embellishment" 
means an item contributing to beauty, comfort or enhancement of a cemetery, but 
does not include a memorial or a disposable, perishable or seasonal item.

���� "General maintenance 
charge" means a fee assessed against each interment space for the general 
upkeep of the cemetery.

���� "Grave" means a 
place for underground disposition of human remains or cremated human remains.� 
A grave may include spaces for the disposition of human remains of more than 
one person, arranged by depth. 

���� "Human remains" 
means a body, or part of a body, of a deceased human being.

���� "Interment" means 
the disposition of human remains by burial in a grave or crypt but does not 
mean the temporary storage of remains.

���� "Interment space" 
means a grave or crypt intended for the interment of human remains.

���� "Maintenance" means 
all activities of a cemetery company which further the care and upkeep of a 
cemetery, including cutting lawns, and preservation and repair of drains, water 
lines, roads, buildings, fences and other structures.

���� "Maintenance and 
preservation" means the care of the entire cemetery to the extent of the 
income of the Maintenance and Preservation Fund; it does not include providing 
specific care to individual graves or plots. 

���� "Mausoleum" means a 
permanent building in a cemetery above or below ground, containing crypts to be 
used for burial. 

���� "Memorial" means a 
marker or monument located at a grave containing the name of a deceased person 
or the family name of a deceased person, or an effigy or other representation 
of a deceased person buried in the grave.� It does not include an embellishment.

���� "Niche" means a 
space in a columbarium or mausoleum for placement of cremated human remains.

���� "Path" means a 
course or way intended to provide pedestrian access to interment spaces.

���� "Person" includes an 
individual, corporation, partnership, association or any other public or 
private entity.

���� "Plot" or 
"lot" means an area of cemetery ground containing two or more 
adjoining graves.

���� "Private mausoleum" 
means a mausoleum constructed by or for a plot owner and not owned by the 
cemetery.

���� "Public mausoleum" 
means a mausoleum, built in accordance with regulations of the Department of 
Community Aff