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Article 42 - Cadavers
Title 2 - Autopsy and Dissection
4219 - Arresting or Attaching a Dead Body of a Human Being.
Universal Citation: NY Pub Health L § 4219 (2022)
§ 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 it for any debt or demand, or upon any pretended lien or charge, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
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