N.Y. Not-for-Profit Corporation Law § 1507-a: State cemetery board citizens advisory council

§ 1507-a. State cemetery board citizens advisory council.

(a) There is hereby created a state cemetery board citizens advisory

council, to study, investigate, monitor and make recommendations with

respect to the maintenance and operation of the state cemetery vandalism

restoration, monument repair or removal and administration fund. Such

advisory council shall study and investigate incidents of cemetery

abandonment, vandalism and desecration, monitor the administration of

such fund and recommend changes to improve the management of and

expenditures from the state cemetery vandalism restoration, monument

repair or removal and administration fund.

(b) The advisory council shall be composed of a member designated by

the secretary of state, a member designated by the attorney general, a

member designated by the commissioner of health, a member designated by

the comptroller and a member designated by the commissioner of taxation

and finance. The appointees to the advisory council shall not be

employees of the department of state, department of law, department of

health, department of audit and control or department of taxation and

finance. Each of the members shall serve for a term of two years,

provided, however, that the first appointments by the comptroller and

commissioner of taxation and finance shall serve for a term of one

year. Vacancies occurring other than by expiration of term shall be

filled in the same manner as the original appointments for the balance

of the unexpired term. Persons designated or appointed to the advisory

council shall have demonstrated a long-standing interest, knowledge and

experience in the care and preservation of gravesites. One member shall

be elected chairman of the advisory council by a majority vote of the

members of such council.

(c) The members of the advisory council shall receive no compensation

for their services but shall be reimbursed for travel expenses incurred

in the performance of their duties.

(d) The advisory council shall meet at least quarterly at the call of

the chairman.

(e) The advisory council may request and shall receive from any

department, division, board, bureau, commission, agency, public

authority of the state or any political subdivision thereof such

assistance and data as will enable it properly to carry out its

activities hereunder and effectuate the purposes set forth herein.