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N.Y. Public Health Law § 4219: Arresting or attaching a dead body of a human being

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  1. Public Health Law
  2. Article 42. Cadavers
  3. Title 2. Autopsy and Dissection

§ 4219. Arresting or attaching a dead body of a human being. A person

who arrests or attaches the dead body of a human being upon any debt or

demand whatever, or detains or claims to detain it for any debt or

demand, or upon any pretended lien or charge, is guilty of a

misdemeanor.

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