2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 42 - Cadavers › Title 2 - Autopsy and Dissection › 4212 - Cadavers; Unclaimed; Delivery to Schools; Procedure.

§  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  the  person having lawful possession, charge, custody or control
of the body of the deceased person in the county where such  university,
college,  school or institute is situated and in any other county in the
state in which no medical college, school, institute  or  university  is
situated,  of  such  desire.  Thereafter,  the person having possession,
charge, custody or control of the body  of  the  deceased  person  shall
notify  the  proper  officer  of  the  university,  college,  school  or
institute whenever there is any such dead body in his or her possession,
charge, custody or control which may be delivered  or  released  to  and
received by such university, college, school or institute, and he or she
shall  deliver  or  release  same to such university, college, school or
institute.
(b) Except as provided in section forty-two hundred ten of this title,
no autopsy or dissection shall be performed on any such  unclaimed  dead
body by any such person having possession, charge, custody or control of
such  body  prior  to  the  expiration  of  the  fourth  day  after such
notification or where such notification is made by  mail  prior  to  the
expiration of the eighth day after such notification is postmarked.
2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the person having lawful possession,
charge, custody or control of bodies of  deceased  persons,  to  keep  a
record  in  a  bound  book or an electronic log of any and all bodies of
deceased persons thereafter coming into his or her  possession,  charge,
custody  or  control and of the disposition made of said bodies, showing
(a) the name of the deceased person, if known, (b) the  dates  of  death
and  burial  or  other  lawful  disposition, if known, (c) the names and
places of residence of relatives of the deceased person, if  known,  (d)
the  name  of the person who claimed the body of the deceased person for
interment or other lawful disposition, (e) the name of  the  university,
college, school or institute to whom the body of the deceased person was
delivered  or  released,  and  (f) the opposition of the deceased to the
dissection  or  autopsy  of  his  or  her  body  as  indicated   by   an
identification  card carried upon his or her person. This record book or
electronic log shall be open to  the  inspection  of  the  officers  and
agents  of  universities,  colleges,  schools  or institutes entitled to
receive bodies of deceased persons. Any electronic log kept pursuant  to
this  subdivision  shall  preserve a record of any addition, deletion or
change made in such log.
3. If two or more universities, colleges, schools  or  institutes  are
entitled  to  receive bodies of deceased persons under the provisions of
this article and shall be given notice as herein  provided,  they  shall
receive the same in proportion to the number of matriculated students in
each  university,  college, school or institute who are pursuing courses
of study in anatomy and surgery at the time of making the apportionment.