PRAGUE — The mayor of one hilly district of Prague, just across the Vltava River from the fairy-tale towers of Old Town, has some bodies he wants to bury, between 50 and 100 of them. He’s not sure exactly how many. Some are just parts.

He has a tomb all picked out, an underused facility in one of the city’s largest cemeteries. It is his duty under Czech law, said the mayor, Jan Cizinsky, who leads a district known as Prague 7.

That is so despite the fact — or perhaps because — the bodies are part of “Body: The Exhibition,” yet another of the traveling events made up of the plasticized dead. The exhibitions have defied most attempts around the world to shut them down. But this attempt is unusual, employing an obscure ordinance regulating funerals.

“We couldn’t believe it,” said Kveta Havelkova, marketing manager for JVS Group, a local company that stages concerts and shows, including the body exhibit. “We thought it was insane.”