2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title I - OFFENSES INVOLVING DAMAGE TO AND INTRUSION UPON PROPERTY
Article 145 - (145.00 - 145.70) CRIMINAL MISCHIEF AND RELATED OFFENSES
145.26 - Aggravated cemetery desecration in the second degree.


NY Penal L § 145.26 (2012) What's This?
 
  § 145.26 Aggravated cemetery desecration in the second degree.
    A  person  is  guilty of aggravated cemetery desecration in the second
  degree when, having no right to do  so  nor  any  reasonable  ground  to
  believe  that he or she has such right, he or she opens a casket, crypt,
  or similar vessel containing a human body or  human  remains  which  has
  been  buried  or otherwise interred in a cemetery and unlawfully removes
  therefrom a body, bodily part, any human remains or any object contained
  in such casket, crypt or similar vessel for  the  purpose  of  obtaining
  unlawful  possession  of such body, bodily part, human remains or object
  for such person or a third person.
    Aggravated cemetery desecration in the second  degree  is  a  class  E
  felony.

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