New York A 2524: Relates to enhancing the state's flood mitigation and coastal resiliency activities

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A02524 Summary:

BILL NOA02524 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORColton (MS)

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COSPNSRDavila, Brabenec, Angelino, Morinello, Burdick

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MLTSPNSRBraunstein, Ra

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Add §450-b, amd §450-a, Gen Bus L

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Prohibits the unauthorized sale, purchase or transfer of any cemetery marker, flag holder, monument, statue or other physical memorabilia that is over 75 years old that commemorates the life or death of a veteran or group of veterans, including but not limited to a military unit, company, battalion or division, if such cemetery marker, flag holder, monument, statue or other physical memorabilia that commemorates the life or death of a veteran or group of veterans has been placed in any cemetery; makes violations a class B misdemeanor; permits cemeteries to make such sales upon application to the state cemetery board and upon certain conditions.

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BILL NOA02524 

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01/17/2025referred to veterans' affairs

01/07/2026referred to veterans' affairs

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2524

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 17, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, DAVILA, BRABENEC, ANGELINO, MORINELLO,
 BURDICK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, RA -- read once
 and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the unauthor-
 ized sale of veterans' commemorative property that has been placed in
 a cemetery and the unauthorized sale of cemetery markers and flaghold-
 ers

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 450-b to read as follows:
 3 § 450-b. Unauthorized sale of veteran's commemorative property that
 4 has been placed in a cemetery. 1. For the purposes of this section, the
 5 following terms have the following meanings:
 6 (a) "Board" means the cemetery board created pursuant to section
 7 fifteen hundred four of the not-for-profit corporation law.
 8 (b) "Cemetery" means any real or personal property used or maintained
 9 as a cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, lot, plot, grave, burial place,
 10 niche, crypt, vault, or other place of interment or temporary storage of
 11 human remains or cremated human remains, including but not limited to
 12 any cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, lot, plot, grave, burial place,
 13 niche, crypt, vault, or other place of interment or temporary storage of
 14 human remains or cremated human remains which is owned or controlled by
 15 any unincorporated association, public cemetery corporation, family
 16 cemetery corporation, private cemetery corporation, religious corpo-
 17 ration or municipal corporation, or which is abandoned or not controlled
 18 by any existing board or body.
 19 (c) "Veteran" means a deceased person who:
 20 (1)(A) served in the active military or naval service of the United
 21 States during a war in which the United States engaged; or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05927-01-5

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 1 (B) served in active duty in a force of any organized state militia
 2 (not including the inactive national guard and not including the New
 3 York guard when in an inactive status) in a full time status; and
 4 (2) was released from such service otherwise than by dishonorable
 5 discharge or was furloughed to the reserve.
 6 (d) "Veteran's commemorative property" means any monument, headstone,
 7 marker, memorial, plaque, statue, vase, urn, decoration, flag holder,
 8 badge, shield, item of memorabilia or other embellishment, that:
 9 (1) is over seventy-five years old;
 10 (2) identifies or commemorates any veteran or group of veterans,
 11 including but not limited to any veterans' organization or any military
 12 unit, company, battalion, or division; and
 13 (3) has been placed in any cemetery.
 14 2. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision three of this section,
 15 it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, associat