* § 1518. Natural organic reduction facility operations.\n Cemetery corporations that operate a natural organic reduction\nfacility shall have the following duties and obligations:\n (a) Maintenance and privacy. (1) A natural organic reduction facility\nshall be maintained in a clean, orderly, and sanitary manner, with\nadequate ventilation and shall have a temporary storage area available\nto store the remains of deceased human beings pending disposition by\nnatural organic reduction, the interior of which shall not be accessible\nto the general public.\n (2) Entrances and windows of the facility shall be maintained at all\ntimes to secure privacy, including (i) doors shall be tightly closed and\nrigid; (ii) windows shall be covered; and (iii) entrances shall be\nlocked and secured when not actively attended by authorized facility\npersonnel.\n (b) Natural organic reduction process. (1) The natural organic\nreduction process shall be conducted in privacy. No person except\nauthorized persons shall be admitted into the reduction area, holding\nfacility, or the temporary storage facility while the remains of\ndeceased human beings are being naturally organically reduced.\nAuthorized persons, on admittance, shall comply with all rules of the\ncemetery corporation and not infringe upon the privacy of the remains of\ndeceased human beings.\n (2) The following are authorized persons: (i) licensed, registered\nfuneral directors, registered residents, and enrolled students of\nmortuary science; (ii) officers and trustees of the cemetery\ncorporation; (iii) authorized employees or their authorized agents of\nthe cemetery corporation; (iv) public officers acting in the discharge\nof their duties; (v) authorized instructors of funeral directing\nschools; (vi) licensed physicians or nurses; and (vii) members of the\nimmediate family of the deceased and their authorized agents and\ndesignated representatives.\n (c) Identification of deceased human beings. (1) No natural organic\nreduction facility shall naturally organically reduce the remains of any\ndeceased human being without the accompanying natural organic reduction\npermit, required pursuant to section forty-one hundred forty-five of the\npublic health law which permit shall constitute presumptive evidence of\nthe identity of the said remains. In addition, all natural organic\nreduction facilities situated outside the city of New York, must comply\nwith paragraph (b) of subdivision two of section forty-one hundred\nforty-five of the public health law pertaining to the receipt for the\ndeceased human being. From the time of such delivery to the natural\norganic reduction facility, until the time the natural organic reduction\nfacility distributes the remains as directed, the facility shall be\nresponsible for the remains of the deceased human being. Further, a\nnatural organic reduction authorization form shall accompany the permit\nrequired in section forty-one hundred forty-five of the public health\nlaw. This form, provided or approved by the facility, shall be signed by\nthe next of kin or authorizing agent attesting to the permission for the\nnatural organic reduction of the deceased, and disclosing to the natural\norganic reduction facility that such body does not contain a battery,\nbattery pack, power cell, radioactive implant, or radioactive device, if\nany, and that these materials were removed prior to the natural organic\nreduction process.\n (2) Upon good cause being shown rebutting the presumption of the\nidentity of such remains, the natural organic reduction shall not\ncommence until reasonable confirmation of the identity of the deceased\nhuman being is made. This proof may be in the form of, but not limited\nto, a signed affidavit from a licensed physician, a member of the family\nof the deceased human being, the authorizing agent or a court order from\nthe state supreme court within the county of the cemetery corporation.\nSuch proof shall be provided by th
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