2023 New York Laws › NPC - Not-For-Profit Corporation › Article 15 - Public Cemetery Corporations › 1502 - Definitions.

§ 1502. Definitions. As used in this article:
(a) The term "cemetery corporation" means any corporation formed under
a  general  or  special law for the disposal or burial of deceased human
beings,  by  cremation,  natural  organic  reduction  or  in  a   grave,
mausoleum, vault, columbarium or other receptacle but does not include a
family cemetery corporation or a private cemetery corporation.
(b) The term "lot owner" or "owner of a lot" means any person having a
lawful title to the use of a niche, crypt, lot, plot or part thereof, in
a cemetery, mausoleum or columbarium.
(c) The term "cemetery board" means the cemetery board in the division
of cemeteries in the department of state.
(d)  A public mausoleum, crematory, natural organic reduction facility
or columbarium shall be included within the term "cemetery".
(e) The sale of a lot, plot or part thereof,  grave,  niche  or  crypt
shall mean the sale of the right of use thereof for burial purposes.
(f)  The  term "monuments" means a memorial erected in a cemetery on a
lot, plot or part thereof, except private mausoleums.
(g) The term "interment" means  the  permanent  disposition  of  human
remains by inurnment, entombment or ground burial.
(h)  The  term "cremation" means the technical process, using heat and
flame,  that  reduces  human  remains  to  ashes  and   other   residue.
"Cremation"   shall   include   the  processing,  and  may  include  the
pulverization, of such ashes and other residue.
(i) The term "cremains" means ashes and other residue recovered  after
the completion of cremation, which may include residue of foreign matter
that may have been cremated with the human remains.
(j)  The  term "alternative container" or "external wrappings" means a
nonmetal receptacle or  enclosure,  without  ornamentation  or  a  fixed
interior  lining,  which is designed for the encasement of human remains
and which is made of cardboard, pressed wood, composite materials  (with
or without an outside covering), or pouches of canvas or other material.
(k) The term "casket" means a rigid container that is designed for the
encasement  of  human  remains and customarily ornamented and lined with
fabric.
(l) The term "crematory" means a facility or portion of a building  in
which the remains of deceased human beings are processed by cremation.
(m)  The term "holding facility" or "temporary storage facility" means
an area that (i) is designated for the retention of human remains  prior
to  cremation  or  natural  organic  reduction;  (ii)  complies with all
applicable public health laws, (iii) preserves the health and safety  of
the  crematory or natural organic reduction facility personnel; and (iv)
is secure from access by  anyone  other  than  authorized  persons.  The
interior  of such facility shall not be visible from any area accessible
to the general public.
(n) The  terms  "cremation  permit"  and  "natural  organic  reduction
permit"  mean the burial and removal permit required pursuant to section
forty-one hundred forty-five of the public health law that is  annotated
for disposition of the remains of a deceased human being by cremation or
natural organic reduction.
(o) The terms "cremation authorization" and "natural organic reduction
authorization"  mean  the  crematory  or  natural organic reduction form
authorizing a cremation or natural organic reduction which is signed  by
the  next of kin or authorizing agent. This crematory or natural organic
reduction form must be a separate document  and  cannot  be  a  part  of
another form or document.
(p)  The term "authorizing agent" shall mean the person with the right
to control the disposition of the decedent pursuant to section forty-two
hundred one of the public health law.
(q) The term "pet cremated remains" means ashes and/or  other  residue
recovered  after the completion of cremation of any domestic animal that
has been adapted or tamed to live in intimate  association  with  people
where  such  cremation  has  occurred at a pet crematorium as defined in
section seven hundred fifty-a of the general business law.
(r)  The  term  "nonsectarian  burial  society" means a corporation or
unincorporated association or society having among its activities or its
former activities the provision of burial benefits for its  members  and
not supervised or controlled by a religious corporation.
(s)  The  term  "religious  burial  society"  means  a  corporation or
unincorporated association or society having among its activities or its
former activities the provision of burial benefits for its  members  and
supervised or controlled by a religious corporation.
(t)   The  term  "natural  organic  reduction"  means  the  contained,
accelerated conversion of human remains to soil.
(u) The term "natural organic reduction facility" means  a  structure,
room,  or  other  space  in  a  building  or real property where natural
organic reduction of a human body occurs.