New York Public Health Law Title 2 - AUTOPSY AND DISSECTION

• 4209 - Autopsies; Right to Perform.
  No person shall make any incision preparatory to or during an autopsy except (a) a duly licensed medical physician or osteopathic physician, (b) a resident...
• 4209-a - Procedure for Obtaining Identification by Persons Opposed to the Dissection or Autopsy of Their Bodies Upon Their Death.
  Except as required by law, no dissection or autopsy shall be performed on the body of any person who is carrying an identification card upon...
• 4210 - Deceased Persons; Right to Dissect.
  The right to dissect the body of a deceased person exists in the following cases: 1. In the cases prescribed by special statutes; or, 2....
• 4210-a - Unlawful Dissection of the Body of a Human Being.
  A person who makes, or causes or procures to be made, any dissection of the body of a human being, except by authority of law,...
• 4210-b - Certain Unauthorized Autopsies.
  A person authorized by law to perform a dissection or autopsy who acts in good faith in accordance with the terms of this article but...
• 4210-c - Limitations to Dissection or Autopsy.
  1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the absence of a compelling public necessity, no dissection or autopsy shall be performed over the objection...
• 4211 - Cadavers; Unclaimed; Delivery to Schools for Study.
  1. Except as hereinafter provided, and subject to the conditions specified in this article, the director or person in charge of any hospital, institution, morgue...
• 4212 - Cadavers; Unclaimed; Delivery to Schools; Procedure.
  1. (a) A university, college, school or institute desiring to avail itself of the provisions of section forty-two hundred eleven of this title, shall notify...
• 4213 - Cadavers; Delivery to Relatives or Friends.
  1. In the counties of Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Madison and Cortland, a friend who claims the body of a deceased person for interment or other...
• 4214 - Cadavers; Autopsy by Order of Hospital Authorities.
  1. The director or person having lawful control and management of any hospital in which a patient has died may order the performance of an...
• 4215 - Cadavers; Burial After Autopsy and Dissection.
  1. In all cases in which a dissection has been made, the provisions of this article, requiring the burial or other lawful disposition of a...
• 4216 - Body Stealing.
  A person who removes the dead body of a human being, or any tissue, organ or part thereof from a grave, vault, or other place,...
• 4217 - Receiving Stolen Body of a Human Being.
  A person who purchases, or receives except for the purpose of burial, the dead body of a human being, or any tissue, organ, or part...
• 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...
• 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...
• 4220 - Disturbing Funerals.
  A person who, without authority of law, obstructs or detains any persons engaged in carrying or accompanying the dead body of a human being to...
• 4221 - Removal of Eyes And/or Parts Thereof After Death.
  If any donation, authorization or consent made pursuant to section forty-three hundred three of this article or dissection made pursuant to subdivision three of section...
• 4222 - Removal of Corneal Tissue for Transplant and Pituitary Gland Tissue for the Extraction of Growth Hormone.
  1. Upon request from a general hospital or medical center for corneal tissue for transplant or pituitary gland tissue for extraction of growth hormone, the...

Last modified: February 3, 2019