2006 New York Code - Certain Unauthorized Autopsies.

 
    §  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 is unaware of the existence of an
  identification  card  indicating  the  decedent's  opposition   to   the
  dissection  or  autopsy  of  his body after a routine examination of the
  decedent and his effects has been conducted shall not  be  subjected  to
  prosecution  in  any  criminal proceeding nor held liable for damages in
  any civil action for his involvement in such an unauthorized autopsy.