N.Y. General Municipal Law § 165: Maintenance and cleanup of abandoned cemeteries

§ 165. Maintenance and cleanup of abandoned cemeteries. 1. Any

municipal corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to establish

volunteer cemetery maintenance and cleanup programs to maintain and

cleanup abandoned cemeteries wholly contained within such municipal

corporation for which such municipal corporation has the primary

responsibility to provide care.

2. The cemetery division of the department of state is hereby

authorized and directed to assist any municipal corporation in the

organization, implementation and administration of a volunteer cemetery

maintenance and cleanup program at the request of such municipal

corporation. The department of state is hereby authorized and directed

to promulgate rules and regulations setting forth the manner and form of

such assistance and request.

3. No municipal corporation which establishes a volunteer cemetery

maintenance and cleanup program shall be liable for any damages

sustained by any person participating and no cause of action for such

damages shall be adjudicated by any court in this state which would

otherwise have jurisdiction to adjudicate such claim.

4. Any municipal corporation which establishes a volunteer cemetery

maintenance and cleanup program shall provide written notice of the

provisions of subdivision three of this section to each person

participating in such program.