New York Prosecutors Training Institute
NYPTI Law - NYS Statutes
ยง 145.26 Aggravated cemetery desecration in the second degree.
A person is guilty of aggravated cemetery desecration in the second
degree when, having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to
believe that he or she has such right, he or she opens a casket, crypt,
or similar vessel containing a human body or human remains which has
been buried or otherwise interred in a cemetery and unlawfully removes
therefrom a body, bodily part, any human remains or any object contained
in such casket, crypt or similar vessel for the purpose of obtaining
unlawful possession of such body, bodily part, human remains or object
for such person or a third person.
Aggravated cemetery desecration in the second degree is a class E
felony.
