N.Y. Public Health Law § 4200 – Cadavers; duty of burial | Midpage
4200
N.Y. Public Health Law § 4200
Cadavers; duty of burial
Effective Jun 30, 2023
1. Except in the cases in which a right to dissect it is expressly conferred by law, every body of a deceased person, within this state, shall be decently buried, naturally organically reduced, or incinerated within a reasonable time after death.
2. The provisions of this section shall not impair the right to carry the body of a deceased person through this state, or to remove from this state the body of a person who has died within it, for the purpose of burying the same elsewhere.