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2018 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 42 - Cadavers
Title 2 - Autopsy and Dissection
4216 - Body Stealing.
Universal Citation: NY Pub Health L § 4216 (2018)
§ 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, where the same has been buried, or from a place where the same has been deposited while awaiting burial, without authority of law, with intent to sell the same, or for the purpose of dissection, or for the purpose of procuring a reward for the return of the same, or from malice or wantonness, is guilty of a class D felony.
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