Section 642 Of Chapter 2. Of Other And Miscellaneous Offenses From California Penal Code >> Title 15. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 2.

. Every person who wilfully and maliciously removes and keeps possession of and appropriates for his own use articles of value from a dead human body, the theft of which articles would be petty theft is guilty of a misdemeanor, or if the theft of the articles would be grand theft, a felony. This section shall not apply to articles removed at the request or direction of one of the persons enumerated in section 7111 of the Health and Safety Code.