NY Pub Health L § 4121 (2021)
2021 New York Laws PBH - Public Health Article 41 - Vital Statistics Title 2 - Registration Districts: Registrars, Physicians, Midwives and Funeral Directors 4121 - Vital Statistics; Registrar; Qualifications and Appointment.

§  4121.  Vital statistics; registrar; qualifications and appointment. 1. In each primary registration district there shall be a  registrar  of vital statistics.   2.   Qualifications   of  registrars  of  vital  statistics  hereafter appointed may be prescribed by the public health council, provided that:  (a) a local health  officer  shall  be  eligible  for  appointment  as registrar of vital statistics; and,  (b)  no  licensed  and  registered  funeral  director,  undertaker  or embalmer engaged or employed in the  business  or  practice  of  funeral directing,  undertaking  or  embalming,  and  no other person engaged or employed in the business of funeral directing, undertaking or  embalming shall  be  eligible  for appointment as a registrar, deputy registrar or sub-registrar of vital statistics.   3. (a) In towns and villages the  registrar  or  registrars  of  vital statistics shall be appointed by the town board and by the village board of  trustees  respectively;  a  local  town  clerk shall be eligible for appointment as registrar of his town and of any  village  wholly  within said  town  in  which  he  has  an  office, and a village clerk shall be eligible for appointment as a registrar of his village and of  any  town in which he resides.  (b) In the cities, unless otherwise provided by charter, the registrar or registrars of vital statistics shall be appointed by the mayor.  (c)  In  each  primary  registration  district  consisting  of a state hospital, charitable or penal institution, the registrar  shall  be  the director  or  person  in  charge of such institution, provided, however, that he shall receive no additional  remuneration  for  acting  as  such registrar.  (d)  In  an  area  designated  as a county or part-county registration district, the county commissioner of health or  public  health  director shall  be  appointed  by  the  board of supervisors as registrar of such county or part-county registration  district.  If  there  be  no  county commissioner  of  health  or  public  health director, then the board of supervisors, with the approval of the commissioner, shall designate  the registrar.  When  such  appointment  is  made,  the  terms  of office of registrars theretofore  appointed  within  such  county  or  part-county registration   district   shall  thereupon  terminate,  and  the  county commissioner of  health  or  public  health  director  or  registrar  so designated  shall  be  the  registrar of the entire area embraced within such county or part-county registration district.   4. When a district is divided into two or  more  primary  registration districts,  the appointment of a registrar for each shall be made by the same appointing authority  which  had  jurisdiction  over  the  original district.   5.  (a)  When two or more primary registration districts are combined, the registrar for such combined district shall be appointed by the board or city council of those former primary  registration  districts  having had  an  aggregate of one hundred or more births, deaths or fetal deaths in each of the two preceding calendar years, and which theretofore  made the appointment of registrars of the original districts, except that;  (b)  in  a  county  registration  district, the county commissioner of health or public health director, or if there be no county  commissioner of  health  or  public  health  director,  the  designee of the board of supervisors of such county shall be appointed as registrar for the  area of his jurisdiction as provided in paragraph (d) of subdivision three of this section;  (c)  where  the  combined  primary  registration  districts  have each registered less than an aggregate of one hundred births, deaths or fetal deaths in each of the two preceding calendar years the registrar of  the  combined   districts,   or   of  the  districts  forming  a  part-county registration district shall be appointed by the board of supervisors  of such county.