N.Y. Public Health Law § 3440: Funeral directors; duty to use prescribed tests of death

§ 3440. Funeral directors; duty to use prescribed tests of death.

Before removing the body of a deceased person from the place of death or

preparing it for burial by injection of fluid or otherwise, every

funeral director, undertaker or embalmer shall apply such tests as are

prescribed by the commissioner for determining whether life is extinct.

If the body is not to be embalmed the same tests shall be made before it

is prepared for burial.