Section 4200 - Cadavers; duty of burial1. 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.N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 4200
Amended by New York Laws 2023, ch. 34,Sec. 7, eff. 6/28/2023.