New York Public Health Law Section 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  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.

Last modified: February 3, 2019