N.Y. Lien Law Section 124
Duties of officers of cemetery associations

The superintendent or other person in charge of a cemetery or burial ground shall not permit the removal, alteration or inscription of a monument, gravestone, inclosure or other structure, against which a lien exists, after the notice of such lien has been filed and served as prescribed in this article, except pursuant to the terms of a judgment recovered in an action brought to enforce such lien. No officer of a cemetery association, or other person connected with a cemetery or burial ground, shall hinder or obstruct the removal in a proper manner of any such monument, gravestone, inclosure or other structure pursuant to the terms of such judgment.

Source: Section 124 — Duties of officers of cemetery associations, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/LIE/124 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Nov. 1, 2025).

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