N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 10 § 77.10 - Embalming procedure
(a) The
preparation for burial or other disposition of all dead human bodies shall be
performed in privacy. No one shall be permitted to be present in the embalming,
operating or preparation room while a dead human body is being embalmed, washed
or otherwise prepared for burial or other disposition, except the following:
(1) licensed funeral directors or embalmers
and their employees;
(2) duly
registered funeral director students and trainees;
(3) duly authorized instructors of funeral
directing schools;
(4) public
officials or representatives in the discharge of their duties;
(5) duly accredited doctors or
nurses;
(6) members of the
immediate family of the deceased and their designated
representatives.
(b) The
use of any fluid or compound which contains arsenic, lead, mercury, zinc,
silver, antimony or chloral or any poisonous alkaloid in the embalming of a
dead human body is prohibited.
(c)
All blood and excretions of a dead human body shall be disposed of in a
sanitary manner.
(d) All
receptacles containing embalming fluid or any poisonous or dangerous substances
shall be plainly marked to indicate the contents thereof.
(e) No embalmer or funeral director shall
embalm, nor shall any funeral director, undertaker or embalmer permit the
embalming of a dead human body when he has information reasonably indicating
that death occurred as a result of accidental, homicidal or suicidal means or
other suspicious or unnatural circumstances, until the body has been duly
released to him for embalming or other preparation by the proper
authority.
(f) A funeral director
trainee may not embalm or perform any part of embalming procedure on a dead
human body unless such activity is performed under the personal supervision and
instruction of a New York State licensed and registered funeral director or a
New York State licensed and registered embalmer.
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