| Reimbursement for funeral expenses under the Workers' Compensation Law, including but not limited to the following items: grave sites; headstone; organist; priest, minister, rabbi or other officiant; removal from hospital; casket; vault; chapel rental; embalming; preparation fees; hearse; cemetery fees including plot; death certificates; newspaper ad; and cremation costs, shall not exceed $6,000 in the counties of Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester. In the remaining counties. reimbursement for such funeral expenses shall not exceed $5,000. This fee schedule shall be applicable to deaths occurring on or after July 31, 1990.
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