Any medical association, licensed physician and surgeon, or medical school, upon request, may receive and remove free of charge the bodies of the following deceased persons, if such bodies are to be used within the state for the advancement of anatomical knowledge and medical science and if proper notice is given to the relatives or guardian of the deceased:
Preference must be given to medical schools, and such schools shall furnish the bodies to the students of medicine and surgery.
N.D.C.C. § 23-06-14