Article 4200 of the Public Health Law covers the disposition of one’s remains—including disposition, autopsy, dissection and cremation, among other issues.

Article 4200 provides that, except in cases where one’s remains are subject to dissection, the body of a decedent within the state of New York is to be decently buried or incinerated within reasonable time after death. Subdivision 2 indicates that there shall not be any impairment to the right to carry the body of a decedent through the state, or to remove the body of one who died within the state to be buried elsewhere.