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SALE OF LAND ORIGINALLY SET ASIDE FOR A CEMETERY WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS CONSTITUTED AN ABANDONMENT OF THE CEMETERY-RELATED USE-RESTRICTIONS ON THE LAND (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, in a full-fledged opinion by Justice Connolly, determined the (1907) restrictions on land originally set aside for use as a cemetery had been abandoned (by the sale of the land in 1908) and the single-family residential zoning restrictions subsequently imposed on the land were enforceable, despite the repurchase of the land by the operator of the cemetery:

“A holder of a deed of a cemetery lot . . . acquires only a privilege or license, exclusive of others, to make interments in the lot purchased, only so long as the lot remains a cemetery” … . However, such privilege or license may be extinguished upon abandonment of the cemetery use … . * * *

… “[W]here a cemetery has been so neglected as entirely to lose its identity as such, and is no longer known, recognized, and respected by the public as a cemetery, it may be said to be abandoned” … . Moreover, an affirmative act that “undoes the character and association” of the cemetery “and leaves the land subject to sale or to legal partition . . . loses its sacredness as a resting place for the dead” … . …

Here, the 1908 sale of the 33-acre parcel … to … a private individual, which included the 12.5-acre parcel at issue, constituted an affirmative act of abandonment of the cemetery use of that property. The petitioner failed to submit any evidence to establish a continuous and uninterrupted relationship between itself and the persons or entities that owned the property from 1908 to 1971, when it reacquired the property … . Matter of Ferncliff Cemetery Assn. v Town of Greenburgh, 2020 NY Slip Op 02925, Second Dept 5-20-20

 

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