Public Health Law § 4217 · Title 2. Autopsy and Dissection
Receiving stolen body of a human being
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Law content up to date as of October 9, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
§ 4217. Receiving stolen body of a human being. A person who purchases, or receives except for the purpose of burial, the dead body of a human being, or any tissue, organ, or part thereof, knowing that the same has been removed contrary to section forty-two hundred sixteen of this title, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Law content up to date as of October 9, 2026, as published by the New York State Senate (Open Legislation)
- Official file
- https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/laws/PBH4217
- Text hash
- sha256 b422677a606421f7d486c07cb1643f655e65f11030df726967932feb0900e169
- Composed by
- gen_ny_statutes.py 2026-11-10: the Senate's Open Legislation law tree (GET /api/3/laws/<ID>?full=true) read in document order; the Senate's PDF of the whole law (GET /pdf/laws/<ID>?full=true), read with PDFium, prints the same words in the same order
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.