Town of Queensbury, NY
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2024-01-22
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 65 Cemeteries
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Advisory Boards
- Ch 5 (Reserved)
- Ch 6 Appearance Tickets
- Ch 6A Checks
- Ch 7 Civil Enforcement
- Ch 8 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 9 Court Clerk and Deputy Court Clerk
- Ch 10 Economic Development Zone Application
- Ch 11 (Reserved)
- Ch 14 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 16 (Reserved)
- Ch 20 Local Development Corporations
- Ch 27 Ordinances, Publication of
- Ch 32 Police Department
- Ch 34 Procurement
- Ch 36 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 36A Terms of Office
- Ch 37 Town Budget Officer
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 43 Adult Entertainment Uses
- Ch 44 Hotel and Motel Registered Sex Offender Occupancy Licenses
- Ch 46 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 50 Bicycles
- Ch 52 Bingo and Games of Chance
- Ch 55 Boats
- Ch 58 Building Requirements
- Ch 59 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 60 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 61 Burning, Outdoor
- Ch 65 Cemeteries
- § 65-1 Legislative intent.
- § 65-2 Establishment of cemeteries restricted.
- § 65-3 Preexisting grave sites.
- § 65-4 Penalties for offenses.
- Ch 68 Diesel Vehicles
- Ch 70 Dock Use
- Ch 73 Dog Control
- Ch 77 Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 80 Electrical Standards
- Ch 85 Fire Hydrants
- Ch 88 (Reserved)
- Ch 88A Enforcement Officials and Personnel
- Ch 88B Fire Prevention and Building Construction
- Ch 91 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 94 Freshwater Wetlands
- Ch 96 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 97 Composting
- Ch 100 Insurance
- Ch 102 Junkyards
- Ch 105 (Reserved)
- Ch 107 Lawn Fertilizer and Pesticide Runoff Control
- Ch 109 Littering
- Ch 113 Manufactured Home Parks
- Ch 115 Short-Term Rentals
- Ch 118 Obscene Materials
- Ch 119 Outdoor Furnaces
- Ch 124 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 125 Glen Lake Boat Launch Site
- Ch 127 (Reserved)
- Ch 128 Park Hours
- Ch 130 Records, Public Access to
- Ch 133 Recycling
- Ch 136 Sewers and Sewage Disposal
- Ch 137 Septic Systems
- Ch 140 Signs
- Ch 146 Storm Sewer System Discharges, Activities and Connections
- Ch 147 Stormwater Management
- Ch 149 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 150 Streets, Temporary Blocking of
- Ch 152 Sunday Activities
- Ch 155 Taxation
- Ch 160 Transient Merchants, Transient Merchant Markets, Peddlers/Solicitors
- Ch 161 Special Sales Events and Garage Sales
- Ch 164 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 168 Vehicles, Recreational
- Ch 173 Water
- Ch 178 Zoning - Subdivision Review
- Ch 179 Zoning
- Ch 181A Zoning Board of Appeals
- Appendix
- Ch A182 Cemetery Commission
- Ch A183 Subdivision of Land
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury 10-14-1986
by L.L. No. 9-1986. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter is to protect the public health, welfare
and safety of the residents of the Town of Queensbury by establishing regulations
confining the burial of human remains to approved cemeteries.
A.
No person shall cause the remains of a human being to
be buried, or establish a burial ground for such purpose, in the Town of Queensbury
in any ground not set apart and recognized as a municipal, religious or not-for-profit
corporation cemetery without having deposited adequate and appropriate funds
for the perpetual maintenance of said grounds.
B.
A bond shall be deposited with the Town of Queensbury
Cemetery Commission to insure adequate and appropriate funds are available
for the maintenance of said burial grounds. The amount of the maintenance
fund shall be determined annually by the Town Cemetery Commission.
This chapter shall not apply to grave sites in existence prior to the
enactment thereof.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The local law appearing in this chapter was adopted
10-14-1986.
[Amended 5-24-1991 by L.L. No. 6-1991]
A failure to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed
a violation, and the violator shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $250
or imprisonment for a term not to exceed 15 days, or both such fine and imprisonment,
for each day that said violation continues.
