N.Y. Public Health Law Section 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.

Source: Section 4200 — Cadavers; duty of burial, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBH/4200 (updated Jun. 30, 2023; accessed Jan. 24, 2026).

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Jan. 24, 2026

Last modified:
Jun. 30, 2023

§ 4200. Cadavers's source at nysenate​.gov

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