ARTICLE 13. Cemetery Lands. SECTION 450. Lands used for cemetery purposes not to be sold or mortgaged. 451. Acquisition of lands by individuals for cemetery purposes in certain counties. § 450. Lands used for cemetery purposes not to be sold or mortgaged. No land actually used and occupied for cemetery purposes shall be sold under execution or for any tax or assessment, nor shall such tax or assessment be levied, collected or imposed, nor shall it be lawful to mortgage such land, or to apply it in payment of debts, so long as it shall continue to be used for such cemetery purposes. Whenever any such land shall cease to be used for cemetery purposes, any judgment, tax or assessment which, but for the provisions of this section would have been levied, collected or imposed, shall thereupon forthwith, together with interest thereon, become and be a lien and charge upon such land, and collectible out of the same. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any lands held by the city of Rochester. Formerly chapter 310, Laws of 1879.47 § 451. Acquisition of lands by individuals for cemetery purposes in certain counties. It shall not be lawful for any person to take by deed, devise or otherwise or set apart. or use any land or ground in any of the counties of Westchester, Kings, Queens, Rockland, Suffolk or Nassau for cemetery purposes without the consent of the board of supervisors for such county, or of the board of aldermen of the city of New York as the case may be, first had and obtained in like manner as provided for in the membership corporation law; and said board of supervisors or board of aldermen in granting such consent may annex thereto such conditions, regulations and restrictions as such board may deem the public health or the public good require. Added to the Consolidated Real Property Law of 1909, by chapter 274, Laws of 1909.4 48 47 Repealed. See § 460, infra. 48 See above, pp. 543, 556, as to charitable uses and graveyards, etc. The reader will note that at pres ent there are no sections of this act between section 451 and section 460. ARTICLE 14. Laws Repealed; Construction; When to Take Effect. SECTION 460. Laws repealed. 461. Construction. 462. When to take effect. § 460. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed. § 461. Construction. This chapter does not alter or impair any vested estate, interest or right, or alter or affect the construction of any conveyance, will or other instrument which has taken effect at any time before this chapter becomes a law. 19 § 462. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect imdiately. SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED. Revised Statutes.... Part 2, chapter 1, title 2, sections 1-62, 64-148 All Revised Statutes.... Part 2, chapter 1, titles 3-5 . . All All 49 See pp. 91, 92, supra, and note 37, Appendix I, infra, and chapter 596, Laws of 1909. |