On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, at 07:52:00 -0400, Christine Connell wrote: > > Google maps shows this cemetery in Halfmoon, off Rt9 (second right past the Stewarts shop) The entrance is from Route 9/Halfmoon Parkway just past what Google Maps currently has labeled as Fitzpatrick Lane but which the street sign calls St. Mary’s Lane. On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, at 12:08:30 -0400, Tom Breedlove wrote: > According to its website, http://www.dos.ny.gov/, the New York Dept. of State: "The Division oversees the establishment, maintenance, and preservation > of burial grounds for all not-for-profit cemeteries in New York." > Perhaps this agency should be queried as to what responsibility Cohoes, or any municipality, would have for its burial ground(s). I’d tried asking the Division of Cemeteries in the past about what exceptions to the general rule whereby they don’t have jurisdiction over any cemeteries other than not-for-profit ones, but had little luck getting an answer. “In addition to the 1900+ cemeteries regulated by the Cemetery Board, the remaining 4000+ cemeteries are municipal, religious, family and private cemeteries, and are generally not subject to regulation by the Cemetery Board or the Department of State.” http://www.dos.ny.gov/cnsl/cemreg.html Without regulation of municipal, religious, family and private cemeteries one winds up with things like Cohoes moving their city cemetery from Columbia Street in Cohoes to Crescent and then abandoning it, Troy bulldozing the original Mount Ida Cemetery at the foot of Cypress Street, etc. and similar abuses at some religious cemeteries and there’s by and large no consequences. Chris