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                                  8883

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 4, 2012
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Introduced  by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  providing  for
  disposition of human remains by the process of alkaline hydrolysis

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  The public health law is amended by adding a  new  section
4204 to read as follows:
  S  4204.  ALKALINE  HYDROLYSIS;  DISPOSITION OF REMAINS. 1.   ALKALINE
HYDROLYSIS MEANS THE REDUCTION OF CADAVERS OR HUMAN REMAINS TO ESSENTIAL
ELEMENTS THROUGH EXPOSURE TO A COMBINATION OF HEAT, PRESSURE AND ALKALI.
  2. AN INSTITUTION AUTHORIZED BY ARTICLE FORTY-TWO  OR  FORTY-THREE  OF
THIS CHAPTER TO RECEIVE UNCLAIMED CADAVERS OR ANATOMICAL GIFTS, NOTWITH-
STANDING  ANY  OTHER  PROVISION  OF  LAW, MAY DISPOSE OF THE CADAVERS OR
DISSECTED  REMAINS  OF  SUCH  CADAVERS  AFTER  THE  COMPLETION  OF  SUCH
RESEARCH,  STUDY  OR  ANATOMICAL  INSTRUCTION  THEREON BY THE PROCESS OF
ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  THE  PROCESS  OF  ALKALINE
HYDROLYSIS  SHALL  BE  PERFORMED ONLY IN A SYSTEM WHICH THE COMMISSIONER
DETERMINES PROTECTS HEALTH, SAFETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. ANY BONE SHADOWS
MUST BE DECENTLY BURIED OR HANDLED AS IF THEY WERE CREMAINS.
  3. THE COMMISSIONER MAY ADOPT AND  AMEND  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS,  AS
NEEDED,  TO  IMPLEMENT THE USE OF ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS IN THE DISPOSITION
OF REMAINS.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00636-01-1