2006 New York Code - 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.