STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9447--A IN ASSEMBLY March 14, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the not-for-profit corporation law, in relation to retiring cemetery indebtedness The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The not-for-profit corporation law is amended by adding a 2 new section 1511-a to read as follows: 3 § 1511-a. Retirement of cemetery indebtedness. 4 Following a mailing from the cemetery corporation providing at least 5 sixty days notice to the last known owners at their addresses on file 6 with the cemetery corporation, any certificates or other instruments of 7 indebtedness issued under this article which shall have had dividends or 8 proceeds remaining unclaimed for a period of three years shall revert 9 such certificates or other instruments of indebtedness and any dividends 10 or proceeds to the cemetery corporation which shall be deposited into 11 the corporation's permanent maintenance fund for the preservation, 12 improvement and maintenance of the cemetery. The cemetery shall maintain 13 a record of these transfers to such fund and at the time of such trans- 14 fer, any voting rights for such certificates or instruments shall be 15 annulled. Subsequent to any deposits to a cemetery's fund, any claimant 16 to such certificates or instruments of indebtedness shall be entitled 17 only to the value of the instrument or certificate at the time of trans- 18 fer. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10269-02-4