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The Laws of New York
Consolidated Laws of New York
CHAPTER 45
Public Health
ARTICLE 34
Funeral Directing
TITLE 3
Practice of Funeral Directing; Funeral Establishments
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SECTION 3440-A
Statement to be furnished by certain licensed persons, funeral directors and funeral firms when funeral arrangements are made
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SECTION 3440
Funeral directors; duty to use prescribed tests of death
Public Health (PBH) CHAPTER 45, ARTICLE 34, TITLE 3
§ 3440. Funeral directors; duty to use prescribed tests of death.
Before removing the body of a deceased person from the place of death or
preparing it for burial by injection of fluid or otherwise, every
funeral director, undertaker or embalmer shall apply such tests as are
prescribed by the commissioner for determining whether life is extinct.
If the body is not to be embalmed the same tests shall be made before it
is prepared for burial.