New York Public Health Law Section 4218 - Opening graves.

  4218.  Opening graves. A person who opens a grave or other place of
  interment, temporary or otherwise, or a building wherein the  dead  body
  of  a  human being is deposited while awaiting burial, without authority
  of law, with intent to remove the body, or any  tissue,  organ  or  part
  thereof,  for the purpose of selling it or demanding money for the same,
  or for the purpose of dissection, or from malice or wantonness, or  with
  intent  to  steal  or remove the coffin or any part thereof, or anything
  attached thereto,  or  any  vestment,  or  other  article  interred,  or
  intended  to  be  interred  with  the  dead body, is guilty of a class D
  felony.

Last modified: February 3, 2019