New York City · Through Local Law 2026/135 (enacted August 31, 2026)

N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 17-117: § 17-117 Removal of bodies.

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New York City Administrative Code
Title 17
Chapter 1: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

a. It shall be the duty of the department upon receiving a certificate of death, made in accordance with its rules, to grant a permit for the removal from the city, of the body of the person described in such certificate if such body has not been buried.

b. It may grant a permit for the removal of the remains of any person interred within the city to a place without the city, on the application of a relative or friend of such person, when there shall appear to be no just objection to the same.

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