N.Y. General Municipal Law Section 162
Conveyance by unincorporated cemetery association to city, town or village

An unincorporated cemetery association may convey and transfer its real property held for burial purposes, together with its other assets, to a city having a population of less than one million inhabitants in which such real property is located, or to a village, provided such real property is located within such village or wholly within three miles of the boundaries thereof, or to a town, in which such real property is located, if all the directors and trustees of such association living and residing in the state unite in the conveyance and transfer. Such conveyance and transfer shall be subject to all agreements as to lots sold and all trusts, restrictions and conditions upon the title or use of such real property and assets. Lots previously sold and grants previously made for burial purposes shall not be affected by such conveyance, nor shall any grave, monument or other erection or any monuments be disturbed or removed except in accordance with law. No such conveyance shall be effective unless and until the legislative body of such city, town or village shall by ordinance or local law or resolution accept the same subject to the conditions and restrictions hereinabove imposed, which ordinance or local law or resolution said legislative body is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt by a majority vote of such body. Upon such conveyance and transfer such property shall be and become a municipal cemetery of such city, town or village and such property and assets so conveyed and transferred shall be administered as any other municipal cemetery of such city, town or village and the said cemetery association shall be dissolved by the recording of such conveyance and transfer.

Source: Section 162 — Conveyance by unincorporated cemetery association to city, town or village, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GMU/162 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Dec. 13, 2025).

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