New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Chapter VI - Division of Cemeteries
Part 200 - Rules Of Procedure Of State Cemetery Board
Section 200.2 - Applications for orders or determinations
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) All applications required to be made to the Cemetery Board for orders or determinations, except applications for approval of rates and charges or for authority to issue certificates of indebtedness, pursuant to sections 1509(a)-(e) and 1511(a) of the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law, shall be determined and the orders made by the director in the first instance.
(b) A party aggrieved, by an order or determination so made by the director, may file a protest with the Cemetery Board within 30 days after the effective date of such order or determination.
(c) If a protest be not filed with the Cemetery Board within 30 days after the effective date of the order or determination made by the director, said order or determination shall be considered the final order or determination of the Cemetery Board unless (1) the time to file a protest is, for good cause, extended by the Cemetery Board, or (2) the Cemetery Board, within 60 days after the effective date of the order or determination made by the director, shall upon its own action make an order or determination modifying, amending, supplementing or rescinding the order or determination of the director.
(d) The protest shall specify the objections to the subject order or determination. The board, in passing upon the protest, will consider only those objections so specified and may afford a hearing or limit the protestant to the filing of affidavits or memoranda.
(e) The filing and determination of a protest to the Cemetery Board shall be a prerequisite to obtaining judicial review of any order or determination made by the director under section 200.1 of this Part.
(f) Any protest not acted upon by the Cemetery Board within 60 days after the filing thereof shall be deemed to be denied in all respects.
(g) The director shall make a determination in respect of such matters as are authorized to be made by him under subdivision (a) of this section, within six months after the application is submitted to him in complete form. Should the director require additional information, time to render his decision is extended by the time required for the cemetery to comply with such request.
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(i) An application made to the Cemetery Board pursuant to section 1509(a)-(e) of the Not- for-Profit Corporation Law shall be determined by the board within six months after the application is submitted in complete form, except that should the board request additional information, the time to render its decision is extended by the time required for a cemetery to comply with such request.