Section 25-112. Prohibition of cemeteries in Queens

a.  No  person,
  association or corporation shall take by deed, devise or  otherwise  any
  land in the county of Queens for cemetery purposes, nor set apart or use
  any  ground  for  cemetery  purposes  in such county. Existing religious
  corporations, cemetery associations  and  corporations,  however,  shall
  have  the  right  to  use  for cemetery purposes, land lawfully taken by
  recorded deed, or devise and set apart or used for cemetery purposes  or
  for  the  purposes  of  the  convenient  transaction  of  their  general
  business, prior to July seventeenth, nineteen hundred forty-seven.
    b. The provisions of subdivision a of this section shall  not  in  any
  manner  prevent  an  incorporated  religious society organized under the
  laws of the state of  New  York  prior  to  the  year  eighteen  hundred
  twenty-five now owning cemetery land in Queens county from acquiring and
  using  land  of not more than ten acres contiguous to said cemetery land
  as and when said additional land in its ownership and use  for  cemetery
  purposes has been approved by the city council.