N.Y. Public Health Law § 4200: Cadavers; duty of burial

§ 4200. Cadavers; duty of burial. 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.