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2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 1 - General Provisions › 4103 - Vital Statistics; Evidence.

§  4103.  Vital  statistics;  evidence.  1.  Certified copies of birth
  certificates, certification of birth, certified or verified  transcripts
  of  birth  certificates,  certificates  of birth data or certificates of
  registration of birth shall be accepted by public school authorities  in
  this  state  as  prima facie evidence of age of children registering for
  school attendance, and by the legally constituted authorities  as  prima
  facie proof of age for the issuance of employment certificates, provided
  that  when it is not possible to secure such certified copy of the birth
  certificate, certification of birth, certified or verified transcript of
  the birth certificate, certificate  of  birth  data  or  certificate  of
  registration  of  birth for any child, the school authorities may accept
  as secondary proof of age any of the kinds of evidence specified in  the
  labor law.
2.  Any copy of the record of a birth or of a death or any certificate
  of registration of birth or any certification of  birth,  when  properly
  certified  by  the local registrar, shall be prima facie evidence of the
  facts therein stated in all  courts  and  places  and  in  all  actions,
  proceedings, or applications, judicial, administrative or otherwise, and
  any  such certificate of registration of birth or any such certification
  of birth shall be accepted with the same force and effect  with  respect
  to  the  facts  therein stated as the original certificate of birth or a
  certified copy thereof.
3. A certified copy of the record of a birth or death, a certification
  of birth or death, a transcript of  a  birth  or  death  certificate,  a
  certificate  of  birth  data  or a certificate of registration of birth,
  when properly certified by the commissioner or persons authorized to act
  for him, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places  of  the
  facts therein stated.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 1 - General Provisions › 4104 - Vital Statistics; Application of Article.

§  4104.  Vital  statistics; application of article. The provisions of
  this article except for the provisions contained  in  paragraph  (i)  of
  subdivision  two  and  subdivision  four  of  section  four thousand one
  hundred, section four thousand one hundred  three,  subdivision  two  of
  section four thousand one hundred thirty-five, section four thousand one
  hundred  thirty-five-b,  subdivision  eight of section four thousand one
  hundred  seventy-four,  paragraphs  (b)  and  (e)  of  subdivision  one,
  paragraph  (a)  and  (b) of subdivision three, and subdivisions five and
  eight of section four thousand  one  hundred  thirty-eight,  subdivision
  eleven  of  section  four thousand one hundred thirty-eight-c, paragraph
  (b)  of  subdivision  three  of  section  four  thousand   one   hundred
  thirty-eight-d,  section  four  thousand  one hundred thirty-eight-e and
  section four thousand one hundred seventy-nine of  this  article,  shall
  not apply to the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 2 - Registration Districts: Registrars, Physicians, Midwives and Funeral Directors › 4120 - Vital Statistics; Registration Districts; Establishment.

§  4120.  Vital statistics; registration districts; establishment.  1.
Except as otherwise provided in this article,  each  city,  incorporated
village  and  town  in  the  state  shall  constitute a separate primary
registration district, except that the commissioner  may  designate  any
county,  except  those  comprising  the  city  of New York, as a primary
registration district with the approval of the board of  supervisors  of
such county.
2. To facilitate registration, the commissioner may:
(a)  with  the approval of the legislative body of the county in which
each  affected  district  is  located,  combine  two  or  more   primary
registration districts into a single primary registration district; or,
(b)  divide one primary registration district into two or more primary
registration districts; or,
(c) establish any state hospital, charitable or penal institution as a
primary registration district.
3. Whenever a county or part-county primary registration district  has
been established or two or more primary registration districts have been
combined,  the  records  of birth and death and all papers pertaining to
such records in the possession  of  the  original  primary  registration
district   or   districts  shall  be  transferred  as  directed  by  the
commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 2 - Registration Districts: Registrars, Physicians, Midwives and Funeral Directors › 4122 - Vital Statistics; Deputy Registrars and Subregistrars; Appointment.

§   4122.  Vital  statistics;  deputy  registrars  and  subregistrars;
  appointment. 1. Immediately upon his  acceptance  of  appointment,  each
  registrar of vital statistics shall appoint a deputy whose duty it shall
  be  to  act  in  his stead in case of his absence or inability, and such
  deputy shall accept such appointment, in writing, and be subject to  the
  provisions  of  this  article  and  all  rules and regulations governing
  registrars.
2. When it appears necessary for the convenience of the people in  any
  district,  the  registrar  is  authorized,  with  the  approval  of  the
  commissioner, to  appoint  one  or  more  suitable  persons  to  act  as
  subregistrars,  who  shall  be  authorized  to  receive  birth and death
  certificates and to issue burial or removal  permits  in  and  for  such
  portions   of   the  district  as  may  be  designated,  and  each  such
  subregistrar shall note on each certificate over his signature the  date
  of  filing  and shall forward all certificates to the local registrar of
  the district within three days, and in all cases before the third day of
  the following month.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 2 - Registration Districts: Registrars, Physicians, Midwives and Funeral Directors › 4123 - Vital Statistics; Registrars; Term of Office; Oath; Removal.

§  4123.  Vital statistics; registrars; term of office; oath; removal.
  1. Unless the charter of the city or village  shall  provide  otherwise,
  the  term  of  office  of  a registrar of vital statistics shall be four
  years, except that in a town or village of  the  first  class  operating
  under  the  general town or village law, the term of office of registrar
  of vital statistics shall be coterminous with the term of office of  the
  town  or  village  clerk,  as  the  case may be. The term of office of a
  county or part-county registrar shall be coterminous with  that  of  the
  county  commissioner of health or public health director. If there be no
  county commissioner of health or public health director, then  the  term
  of office of such county or part-county registrar shall be as determined
  by the board of supervisors of such county.
2.  Each  registrar  of  vital  statistics shall hold office until his
  successor is appointed and shall have qualified.
3.  Any  registrar,  deputy  registrar  or   subregistrar   of   vital
  statistics, who fails or neglects to discharge efficiently the duties of
  his  office  in  accordance  with  the provisions of this article or the
  regulations of the public health council, or to make prompt and complete
  returns of births and deaths  as  required  thereby,  shall  be  removed
  forthwith  by  the  commissioner or by the person or board authorized by
  law to appoint such registrar, deputy registrar or subregistrar.    Such
  other penalties may be imposed upon him as are provided by this article.
4.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provisions of the laws of this state,
  each registrar, deputy registrar and subregistrar  of  vital  statistics
  shall  file his oath of office with the clerk or clerks of the county or
  counties in which his registration district is located.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 3 - Registration of Births › 4130 - Births; Registration.

§ 4130. Births; registration. 1. Live birth is defined as the complete
  expulsion  or  extraction  from  its  mother of a product of conception,
  irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such separation,
  breathes or shows any other evidence of life  such  as  beating  of  the
  heart,  pulsation  of  the  umbilical  cord,  or  definite  movement  of
  voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the
  placenta is attached; each product of such a birth  is  considered  live
  born.
2.  The  birth  of  each  child  born  alive  in  this  state shall be
  registered within five days after the date of birth by filing  with  the
  registrar  of  the district in which the birth occurred a certificate of
  such birth, which certificate shall be upon the form prescribed therefor
  by the commissioner.
3. In each case where a physician or nurse-midwife was  in  attendance
  upon  the birth, it shall be the duty of such physician or nurse-midwife
  to file said certificate.
4. In each case where there  was  no  physician  or  nurse-midwife  in
  attendance  upon the birth, it shall be the duty of the father or mother
  of the child, the householder or owner of the premises where  the  birth
  occurred,  or  the director or person in charge of the public or private
  institution where the birth occurred, each in the  order  named,  within
  five days after the date of such birth, to report to the local registrar
  the fact of such birth and to file said certificate.
5.  When  a  birth  occurs in a hospital, the person in charge of such
  hospital or his designated  representative  shall  obtain  the  personal
  data,  prepare  the  certificate,  secure the signatures required by the
  certificate and file it with the registrar. The physician in  attendance
  or  a physician acting in his behalf shall certify to the facts of birth
  and provide the medical information required by the  certificate  within
  five days after the birth.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 3 - Registration of Births › 4131 - Births; Registration; Foundlings.

§ 4131. Births; registration; foundlings. 1. The report of the finding
  of  a  child  whose  parents  are  unknown, filed by the commissioner of
  social services or by the city social  services  officer  in  accordance
  with  the  provisions  of  subdivision  two  of  section  three  hundred
  ninety-eight of the social services  law,  shall  constitute  the  birth
  record of such child.
2.  The  district  wherein such child was found shall be considered as
  the place of birth, and the date of birth shall be  that  determined  by
  the  commissioner  of  social  services  or  by the city social services
  officer as the approximate date of birth.
3. If, however, such child be subsequently identified, and  it  should
  appear  that  a certificate of birth for this child has either before or
  following identification been  filed,  as  otherwise  provided  in  this
  article,  the  report  of  the commissioner of social services or of the
  city social services officer shall be placed under  seal  by  the  state
  commissioner  of health, such seal not to be broken except upon order of
  a court of competent jurisdiction.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 3 - Registration of Births › 4132 - Birth Certificate; Form and Content.

§  4132.  Birth  certificate;  form and content. 1. The certificate of
birth shall contain such  information,  including  the  social  security
numbers  of  the  parents,  and  be in such form as the commissioner may
prescribe.
2. The personal particulars  called  for  shall  be  obtained  from  a
competent person acquainted with the facts.
3.  (a)  The certificate shall be signed by the attending physician or
nurse-midwife, with date of signature and his or her address.
(b) If there was no physician or nurse-midwife,  in  attendance,  then
the  certificate of birth shall be signed by the father or mother of the
child, householder, owner of the premises, director or other  person  in
charge of the public or private institution where the birth occurred, or
by  any  other  competent  person  whose  duty it is to notify the local
registrar of such birth.
4. The  registrar  shall  enter  the  exact  date  of  filing  of  the
certificate  of  birth  in his office attested by his official signature
and registered number of birth.
5. Each parent of the  child  may  choose  to  be  designated  on  the
original certificate of birth or by amendment as "father" or "mother" or
"parent".
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 3 - Registration of Births › 4133 - Birth Certificate; Incomplete; Duty of Registrar.

§  4133.  Birth  certificate;  incomplete;  duty of registrar. 1. If a
  certificate of birth is incomplete, the registrar  of  the  district  in
  which  the  birth  occurred and with whom the certificate has been filed
  shall immediately notify the person who signed the record,  and  require
  him to supply the missing items of information if they can be obtained.
2. In any case where the physician or nurse-midwife in attendance upon
  the  birth  of  a  child  within this state, or other person reporting a
  birth of a child within this state as provided by section four  thousand
  one  hundred  thirty of this chapter, is unable, by diligent inquiry, to
  obtain any item or items of information required  in  this  article,  it
  shall  then  be  the  duty of the registrar to secure from the person so
  reporting, or from any other person having the required knowledge,  such
  information  as  will enable the registrar to prepare the certificate of
  birth herein required.
3. It shall be the duty of the person reporting such birth or  who  is
  interrogated  in relation thereto to answer correctly and to the best of
  his knowledge all questions put to him by the  registrar  which  may  be
  calculated to elicit any information needed to make a complete record of
  the  birth  as contemplated by this article, and it shall be the duty of
  the informant as to any statement made in accordance herewith to  verify
  such  statement  by  his  signature,  when  requested  so  to  do by the
  registrar.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 3 - Registration of Births › 4134 - Birth Certificate; Unnamed Child.

§ 4134. Birth certificate; unnamed child. 1. If a living child has not
  yet been named at the date of filing the certificate of birth, the space
  provided  for  the  given  name  of the child is to be left blank, to be
  filled out subsequently by a supplemental report, as herein provided.
2. If a child dies without a given name, there shall be entered in the
  space provided for the name the words "died unnamed." The parents of the
  deceased child may submit a supplemental report of the given name of the
  deceased child. Such report shall be returned to the local registrar and
  the given name shall be entered on the original birth certificate.
3. When any certificate of  birth  of  a  living  child  is  presented
  without  the statement of the given name, the local registrar shall make
  out and deliver to the parents of the child a supplemental report of the
  given name of the child, which shall be  filled  out  as  directed,  and
  returned  to  the  local  registrar as soon as the child shall have been
  named. The given name, supplied by the  supplemental  report,  shall  be
  entered on the original birth certificate.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 3 - Registration of Births › 4135 - Birth Certificate; Child Born Out of Wedlock.

§  4135.  Birth  certificate;  child born out of wedlock. 1. (a) There
shall be no specific statement on the birth certificate  as  to  whether
the child is born in wedlock or out of wedlock or as to the marital name
or status of the mother.
(b)  The phrase "child born out of wedlock" when used in this article,
refers to a child whose father is not its mother's husband.
2. The name of the alleged father of a child born out of wedlock shall
not be entered on the certificate of birth prior to filing  without  (i)
an  acknowledgment of parentage pursuant to section one hundred eleven-k
of the  social  services  law  or  section  four  thousand  one  hundred
thirty-five-b  of  this  article executed by both the mother and alleged
father, and filed with the record of birth; or (ii) notification  having
been  received by, or proper proof having been filed with, the record of
birth by the clerk of a court of competent jurisdiction or the  parents,
or their attorneys of a judgment, order or decree relating to parentage.
3.  Orders  relating  to  parentage  shall be held confidential by the
commissioner and shall not be released or otherwise divulged  except  by
order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 3 - Registration of Births › 4136 - Birth Certificate; Statement as to Blood Test.

§ 4136. Birth certificate; statement as to blood test. 1. In reporting
  every  birth  and fetal death, physicians and others permitted to attend
  pregnancy cases and required to report births  and  fetal  deaths  shall
  state  on  the birth certificate or fetal death certificate, as the case
  may be, whether a blood test for syphilis  has  been  made  during  such
  pregnancy  upon  a  specimen  of blood taken from the woman who bore the
  child for which a birth or fetal death certificate is filed.
2. In addition to the information provided to  be  contained  in  each
  certificate  of  birth  by this article every certificate of birth shall
  state whether such test was made during pregnancy or at delivery, and in
  the case where no blood test has been made such fact shall  be  reported
  together  with the reason why such test has not been taken in compliance
  with the provisions of section two thousand three hundred eight of  this
  chapter.
3.  If  such  test  has  been made during pregnancy, those required to
  report births and fetal deaths shall state the date on  which  the  test
  was made.
4.  In  no  event  shall the birth certificate state the result of the
  blood test.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 3 - Registration of Births › 4137 - Births; Notice of Recording.

§  4137.  Births;  notice  of  recording. 1. (a) Within ten days after
receiving the certificate of birth the registrar shall  furnish  without
charge  to  the parents or guardian of the child or to the mother at the
address designated by her for the purpose, a certified copy.
(b) The registrar shall, at the same time, furnish without  charge  to
the  parents  or  guardian  of the child or to the mother at the address
designated by her the immunization schedule for children. The  registrar
shall include the telephone number of the local county health department
on the immunization schedule.
2.  A certificate of registration of birth shall be accepted by public
authorities in this state for the purposes  indicated  in  section  four
thousand  one  hundred  three  of  this  chapter  in  the same manner as
certified copies or certified transcripts of birth certificates.
3. The local registrar shall also make a notation on his copy  of  the
original  birth  certificate  indicating  the  date  of issuance of such
certified copy.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 3 - Registration of Births › 4138-B - Birth Certificate: Foreign Country Adoption.

§  4138-b.  Birth  certificate: foreign country adoption. Whenever the
  adoption or finalization of a  foreign  adoption  or  recognition  of  a
  foreign  adoption of a child pursuant to section one hundred eleven-c of
  the domestic relations law has been reported to  the  commissioner,  the
  commissioner shall file a birth certificate for the child provided there
  is  no  other birth certificate or other birth record on file other than
  in the country where such child was born and provided, further,  that  a
  certificate  of  birth  data  does not exist for that person. Such birth
  certificate shall be filed upon receipt  of:  proof  that  the  adoptive
  parent  was  a resident of this state at the time of adoption; a copy of
  the adoption documents of the jurisdiction or country in which the child
  was adopted; a certified translation of the foreign adoption  documents,
  evidence  of  the  date  and place of the child's birth; and evidence of
  IR-3, IR-4 or IH-3 immigrant visa status or a successor  immigrant  visa
  status.  The birth certificate shall include the child's name, sex, date
  of birth, time of birth, place  of  birth,  mother's  maiden  name,  and
  father's  name. A birth certificate for a foreign country adoption which
  has been filed by a local registrar  and  all  supporting  documentation
  shall  be submitted by the local registrar to the commissioner who shall
  file a new birth certificate pursuant to this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 4 - Registration of Deaths: Burial Permits › 4140 - Deaths; Registration.

§ 4140. Deaths; registration. 1. The death of each person who has died
  in  this  state  shall  be  registered  immediately  and  not later than
  seventy-two hours after death or the finding of a dead  human  body,  by
  filing with the registrar of the district in which the death occurred or
  the  body  was found a certificate of such death, in a manner and format
  as  prescribed  by  the  commissioner,  which  shall   include   through
  electronic   means   in   accordance   with  section  forty-one  hundred
  forty-eight of this title.
2. If the certificate of death is properly executed and complete,  the
  registrar of the district in which the death occurred shall then issue a
  burial  or removal permit to the funeral director or undertaker. In case
  the death occurred from a disease which is designated  in  the  sanitary
  code  as  a  communicable  disease,  no  permit for the removal or other
  disposition of the body shall be issued by the registrar,  except  to  a
  funeral   director   or  undertaker  licensed  in  accordance  with  the
  provisions of this chapter, under such conditions as may  be  prescribed
  in the sanitary code.
3.  The  commissioner  and the department of health of the city of New
  York shall deliver to the state board of elections,  at  least  monthly,
  records  in  a  format  as  mutually determined by both agencies, of the
  names of all persons of voting age  for  whom  death  certificates  were
  issued.  Such records shall be arranged by county of residence and shall
  include the name, residence address and birth date of each such person.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 4 - Registration of Deaths: Burial Permits › 4141 - Death Certificate; Form and Content.

§  4141.  Death  certificate;  form and content. 1. The certificate of
death shall contain such information, including but not limited  to  the
decedent's  social  security  number,  and  shall be in such form as the
commissioner may prescribe.
2. The personal  particulars  called  for  shall  be  furnished  by  a
competent person acquainted with the facts.
3.  The  statement  of  facts  relating to the disposition of the body
shall be signed by the funeral director or undertaker in charge  of  the
corpse.
4. (a) The medical certificate shall be made, dated, and signed by the
physician  or  nurse  practitioner,  if  any,  last in attendance on the
deceased.
(b) Indefinite terms, denoting only symptoms of disease or  conditions
resulting from disease, shall not be held sufficient.
(c)  Any  certificate  stating  the  cause of death in terms which the
commissioner declares indefinite shall be  returned  to  the  physician,
nurse  practitioner,  or  person  making  the  medical  certificate  for
correction and more definite statement.
(d) Where a death is caused by an opioid  overdose,  such  information
shall be indicated on the certificate, including, if known to the person
completing  the  death  certificate, the specific opioid that caused the
death of the decedent, along with any other related information  as  the
commissioner may require.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 4 - Registration of Deaths: Burial Permits › 4141-A - Death Certificate; Duties of Hospital Administrator.

§  4141-a. Death certificate; duties of hospital administrator. When a
  death occurs in a hospital, except in those cases where certificates are
  issued by coroners or medical examiners, the person in  charge  of  such
  hospital  or his or her designated representative shall promptly present
  the certificate to the physician or nurse practitioner in attendance, or
  a physician or nurse practitioner acting in his or her behalf, who shall
  promptly certify to the facts of death, provide the medical  information
  required  by the certificate, sign the medical certificate of death, and
  thereupon  return  such  certificate  to  such  person,  so   that   the
  seventy-two  hour  registration  time  limit  prescribed in section four
  thousand one hundred forty of this title can be met;  provided,  however
  that  commencing  on  or  after  the  implementation  date under section
  forty-one hundred forty-eight of this title, information and  signatures
  required  by  this section shall be obtained and made in accordance with
  section forty-one hundred forty-eight of this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 4 - Registration of Deaths: Burial Permits › 4142 - Death Certificate; Duties of Funeral Director.

§  4142.  Death  certificate; duties of funeral director. In each case
the funeral director, undertaker or person having charge of the body  of
a deceased person, shall:
(a)  obtain  the personal and statistical particulars required for the
certificate of death from a competent person acquainted with  the  facts
and  qualified to supply them and enter them on the certificate together
with the name and address of his informant;
(b) present the certificate promptly to  the  attending  physician  or
nurse  practitioner,  who shall forthwith certify to the facts of death,
provide the medical information required by the certificate and sign the
medical certificate of death, or to the coroner or medical  examiner  in
those cases where so required by this article or, when a death occurs in
a  hospital,  except  in  those  cases  where certificates are issued by
coroners or medical examiners, to the person in charge of such  hospital
or  his  or  her designated representative, who shall obtain the medical
certificate of death as prescribed in section four thousand one  hundred
forty-one-a of this title;
(c)  state  the facts required on the certificate of death relative to
the date and place of burial, cremation or removal, over  his  signature
and with his address; and,
(d)  prior  to the disposition of the remains, file the certificate of
death with the registrar of the district in which the death occurred  as
provided in section four thousand one hundred forty of this article.
(e) notwithstanding any contrary provisions of law as may be set forth
in  this  section,  commencing on or after the implementation date under
section forty-one hundred forty-eight of  this  title,  information  and
signatures  required  by  this subdivision shall be obtained and made in
accordance with section forty-one hundred forty-eight of this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 4 - Registration of Deaths: Burial Permits › 4143 - Deaths Without Medical Attendance; Registration.

§ 4143. Deaths without medical attendance; registration. 1. In case of
  any  death occurring without medical attendance, it shall be the duty of
  the funeral director, undertaker or any other person to whose  knowledge
  the  death  may come, to give notice of such death to the coroner of the
  county, or if there be more than one, to a coroner having  jurisdiction,
  or to the medical examiner.
2.  When  notified  of any death occurring without medical attendance,
  the  coroner  or  medical  examiner  shall  immediately  investigate  as
  provided by law and shall certify as provided in subdivision three.
3. The coroner or medical examiner whose duty it is to investigate the
  death  and  to  execute  the  certificate  of death, shall state in such
  certificate the name of the disease causing death, or if  from  external
  causes,  the  means  of  death; whether probably accidental, suicidal or
  homicidal; and shall, in any case, furnish such information  as  may  be
  required by the commissioner in order to classify the death.
4.  In  case  of any death occurring without medical attendance in the
  county of Erie, it shall be the duty of the undertaker or  other  person
  to whose knowledge the death may come, to notify the medical director of
  such  death, and when so notified the medical director shall immediately
  investigate and certify as to the cause of death and shall,  if  he  has
  reason to believe that the death may have been due to an unlawful act or
  neglect,  cause  a  proper investigation and certification in accordance
  with the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 4 - Registration of Deaths: Burial Permits › 4146 - Deaths; Burial Permits; Interments in Certain Cemeteries Prohibited.

§  4146.  Deaths;  burial  permits;  interments  in certain cemeteries
  prohibited. 1. Whenever the legislative authority  of  any  municipality
  shall  deem that further interments in any cemetery in such municipality
  would be detrimental to the public health, it may by  resolution  direct
  its  clerk to cause a notice to be served upon the person or corporation
  owning or controlling such cemetery, and to publish said notice  once  a
  week  for  three  successive weeks in two papers published in such city,
  stating a time and place not less than thirty  days  after  service  and
  first  publication  of  such  notice, at which any person interested may
  show cause to the legislative authority why further interments  in  such
  cemetery should not be prohibited.
2.  At  the  time  and  place specified in such notice the legislative
  authority of such municipality shall hear all  persons  desiring  to  be
  heard,  and  if  upon such hearing it appears that further interments in
  such cemetery will be detrimental to public health, it may by resolution
  prohibit further interments therein.
3. If such resolution is adopted a certified  copy  thereof  shall  be
  filed with the board of health of the municipality in which the cemetery
  is located, and thereafter permits for interments in such cemetery shall
  not  be  issued. The action of the legislative authority in passing such
  resolution may be reviewed  within  thirty  days  thereafter  under  and
  pursuant to article seventy-eight of the civil practice act.
4.  A  burial  permit  issued  by  any  registrar  of vital statistics
  authorizing burial in such cemetery shall be deemed null and void and of
  no legal effect after a copy of the resolution has been filed  with  the
  board of health of the municipality.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 4 - Registration of Deaths: Burial Permits › 4147 - Deaths; Confidentiality of Records.

§  4147.  Deaths;  confidentiality  of records. The death certificate,
  burial permit or any other record of death or interment, as  defined  by
  article  forty-one  of  this  chapter,  including but not limited to the
  name, address or telephone number  of  the  decedent,  next  of  kin  or
  surviving  relatives  of such decedent, shall not be sold or offered for
  sale for commercial, promotional or profit-making purposes  without  the
  written  consent  of the next of kin or the legal representative of such
  decedent or next of kin. The provisions of this section shall not  apply
  to  newspapers  or  newsletters  providing  general  information  to the
  public. A violation of this section  shall  constitute  a  violation  as
  defined in the penal law.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 5 - Registration of Fetal Deaths › 4160 - Fetal Deaths; Registration.

§ 4160. Fetal deaths; registration. 1. Fetal death is defined as death
  prior  to  the  complete  expulsion  or  extraction from its mother of a
  product of conception; the death is indicated by  the  fact  that  after
  such  separation,  the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence
  of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the  umbilical  cord,
  or definite movement of voluntary muscles.
2.  A  fetal  death shall be registered within seventy-two hours after
  expulsion of such fetus, by filing  directly  with  the  commissioner  a
  certificate of such death. In addition, a report of fetal death shall be
  reported  to  the  registrar  in  the  district in which the fetal death
  occurred.
3. For the purposes of this article, a fetal death shall be considered
  as a birth and as a death except that, for a fetal death, separate birth
  and death  certificates  shall  not  be  required  to  be  prepared  and
  recorded,  except  as  provided  in section forty-one hundred sixty-a of
  this title.
4. Local registrars of each district in which fetal death certificates
  were filed prior to the effective date of this subdivision shall dispose
  of such certificates in the manner prescribed by the commissioner.
5. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the disclosure
  of information filed pursuant to this section shall be  limited  to  the
  mother,  her  lawful  representative  and to authorized personnel of the
  department.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 5 - Registration of Fetal Deaths › 4162 - Fetal Deaths; Burial and Removal; Permits.

§  4162. Fetal deaths; burial and removal; permits.  1. A permit shall
  be required for the removal, transportation, burial or other disposition
  of remains resulting from  a  fetal  death,  other  than  fetal  tissue,
  hydatidiform  mole or other evidence of pregnancy recovered by curettage
  or operative procedures or other products of conception of under  twenty
  weeks uterogestation.
2.  Such permit shall be issued by the local registrar of the district
  in which the fetal death  occurred  upon  presentation  by  the  funeral
  director  of  a  report  of  fetal  death, on the form prescribed by the
  commissioner. The issuance of  such  permit  shall  be  subject  to  the
  provisions of title IV of this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 5 - Registration of Fetal Deaths › 4163 - Penalties.

§  4163.  Penalties.  Any  person  who shall release information which
  might  disclose  the  identity  of  the  woman  in  connection  with   a
  certificate  of fetal death or report of fetal death in violation of the
  provisions of this title shall be subject to  a  civil  penalty  not  to
  exceed  five thousand dollars for each such release. Such penalty may be
  recovered in the same manner as the penalty provided in  section  twelve
  of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 6 - Registration of Persons in Institutions › 4165 - Persons in Institutions; Registration.

§   4165.   Persons   in  institutions;  registration.  1.  Directors,
  superintendents, managers or other persons in charge of hospitals, homes
  for indigents, lying-in or other institutions,  public  or  private,  to
  which  persons  resort  for  treatment of diseases or confinement, or to
  which persons are committed by process of law, shall make, at  the  time
  of  their  admittance,  a  record  of  all  the personal and statistical
  particulars relative to the patients  and  incarcerated  individuals  in
  their  institutions,  which are required in the forms of the certificate
  provided for by this article as directed by the commissioner.
2. The personal particulars and information required by  this  section
  shall  be obtained from the patient or incarcerated individual, if it is
  practicable to do so; and when they cannot be so obtained, they shall be
  obtained in as complete a manner as possible from relatives, friends, or
  other persons acquainted with the facts.
3. In the case of persons  admitted  or  committed  for  treatment  of
  disease,  the physician in charge shall specify for entry in the record,
  the nature of the disease, and where, in his opinion, it was contracted.
4. The records of patients or  incarcerated  individuals  obtained  in
  accordance  with  this  section  shall  not  be  sold  to any person for
  promotional or profit-making purposes without  the  written  consent  of
  such  patient  or  incarcerated individual or the written consent of the
  legal representative of such patient or incarcerated individual.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 7 - Vital Statistics Records › 4171 - Records; Duties of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Others to Furnish Information.

§ 4171. Records; duties of physicians, nurse practitioners, and others
  to    furnish   information.   1.   Physicians,   nurse   practitioners,
  nurse-midwives, funeral directors, undertakers and informants,  and  all
  other  persons  having  knowledge  of  the facts, are hereby required to
  supply, upon a form provided by the commissioner or  upon  the  original
  certificate, such information as they may possess regarding any birth or
  death  upon  demand  of the commissioner, in person, by mail, or through
  the registrar.
2.  No  forms  shall  be  used  other  than  those  supplied  by   the
  commissioner.
3.  All  certificates,  either  of  birth  or  death, shall be written
  legibly, in durable black ink, provided, however, that commencing on  or
  after   the   implementation   date   under  section  forty-one  hundred
  forty-eight of this article, death certificates shall  be  completed  in
  accordance  with  section forty-one hundred forty-eight of this article.
  No certificate, whether filed in paper form or death  certificate  filed
  electronically  in accordance with section forty-one hundred forty-eight
  of this article, shall be held to be complete and correct that does  not
  supply   all  of  the  items  of  information  called  for  therein,  or
  satisfactorily account for their omission.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 7 - Vital Statistics Records › 4172 - Records; Registrar to Transmit Through Health Officers.

§  4172.  Records;  registrar  to transmit through health officers. 1.
  When the commissioner  shall  have  so  ordered,  each  registrar  shall
  transmit,  at such times as the commissioner shall direct, to designated
  local health units or officials  copies  of  original  birth  and  death
  certificates  which  have  been  registered in such primary registration
  district, and the statistical abstract of fetal death.
2. Each designated local health unit or official receiving  copies  of
  original  certificates  shall  retain  such  copies  thereof pursuant to
  subdivision one of this section as confidential records subject to  such
  further  regulation  to assure such confidentiality as may be prescribed
  by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 7 - Vital Statistics Records › 4175 - Records; Unrecorded Births and Deaths.

§  4175.  Records;  unrecorded  births  and deaths. 1. If, at any time
  after the birth, or within one year of the death, of any  person  within
  the  state,  a  certified  copy  of the official record of said birth or
  death, with the information required to be registered by  this  article,
  is  necessary  for legal, judicial, or other proper purposes, and, after
  search by the commissioner or his or  her  representatives,  it  appears
  that  no  such  certificate  of  birth  or  death  was made and filed as
  provided by  this  article,  then  the  commissioner  shall  immediately
  require  the  physician, nurse practitioner, or nurse-midwife who, being
  in attendance upon a birth, failed or neglected to  file  a  certificate
  thereof,  or  the  funeral  director,  undertaker,  or other person who,
  having charge of the interment or removal of  the  body  of  a  deceased
  person,  failed  or neglected to file the certificate of death, if he or
  she is living, to obtain and file at once with the local registrar  such
  certificate in as complete form as the lapse of time will permit.
2.  With  said  delayed  certificate  shall  be  filed such statements
  subscribed and affirmed by the persons making them  as  true  under  the
  penalties  of  perjury  and  other  evidence  as  may be required by the
  commissioner.
3.  If  the  physician,  nurse  practitioner,  nurse-midwife,  funeral
  director, or undertaker responsible for the report is deceased or cannot
  be located, then the person making application for the certified copy of
  the  record  may  file  such certificate of birth or death together with
  such statements subscribed and affirmed by the persons  making  them  as
  true   under  the  penalties  of  perjury  and  other  evidence  as  the
  commissioner may require.
4. The commissioner shall file such certificate and issue a  certified
  copy thereof to said applicant without fee.
5.   The  delinquent  physician,  nurse  practitioner,  nurse-midwife,
  funeral director, undertaker, or other person may, in the discretion  of
  the commissioner, be prosecuted as required by this article, without bar
  from  the statute of limitations, if he or she neglects or fails to file
  promptly the certificate required by this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 7 - Vital Statistics Records › 4176 - Records; Correction of Defective Registration.

§  4176.  Records; correction of defective registration. 1. If defects
  be found in the registration under the supervision  of  a  registrar  of
  vital statistics, the commissioner shall notify such registrar that such
  defects must be corrected within ten days of the date of the notice.
2.  If  such  defects are not so corrected the commissioner shall take
  control of such registration and of the records thereof, and enforce the
  rules  and  regulations  in  regard  thereto  and  secure   a   complete
  registration in such district, and such control shall continue until the
  registrar  of  vital  statistics  shall satisfy the commissioner that he
  will make such record and registry complete as required by  law  and  in
  the sanitary code.
3.  The  expenses  incurred  by  the  commissioner  or  his authorized
  representative while in control of such registration shall be  a  charge
  upon the city, town or village comprising the registration district.
4.  No  certificate  of  birth  or  death,  after  its  acceptance for
  registration by the registrar, and no new certificate  or  other  record
  made  in  pursuance  of this article, shall be altered or changed in any
  respect except to correct errors made in completing the  certificate  by
  the  person  responsible  for  preparing the certificate or as otherwise
  provided in this article. The commissioner shall provide the application
  form for a correction of a record which must be properly  dated,  signed
  and  witnessed, or subscribed and affirmed by the persons making them as
  true under the penalties  of  perjury,  together  with  such  supporting
  proofs as may be prescribed by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 7 - Vital Statistics Records › 4177 - Vital Records; Refund of Fees.

§  4177.  Vital  records;  refund of fees. Moneys received pursuant to
  this article may within one year from the receipt thereof be refunded on
  proof satisfactory to the commissioner that such moneys were  in  excess
  of  amounts  required  by  law.  Such  refund  shall  after audit by the
  comptroller be paid by the commissioner from any moneys in  the  custody
  of the commissioner received pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 41 - Vital Statistics › Title 7 - Vital Statistics Records › 4179 - Vital Records; Fees; City of New York.

§  4179.  Vital  records;  fees; city of New York. Notwithstanding the
  provisions of paragraph one of subdivision a of section  207.13  of  the
  health  code  of  the  city  of New York, the department of health shall
  charge, and the applicant shall pay, for a  search  of  two  consecutive
  calendar  years  under  one  name  and  the issuance of a certificate of
  birth, death or termination of pregnancy, or a certification of birth or
  death, or a certification that the record cannot  be  found,  a  fee  of
  fifteen dollars for each copy. Provided, however, that no such fee shall
  be  charged when the department of corrections and community supervision
  or a local correctional facility as defined in  subdivision  sixteen  of
  section  two  of  the  correction law requests a certificate of birth or
  certification of birth for the purpose of providing such certificate  of
  birth  or  certification  of  birth  to  an  incarcerated  individual in
  anticipation of such incarcerated individual's release from  custody  or
  to obtain a death certificate to be used for administrative purposes for
  an incarcerated individual who has died under custody or when the office
  of  children  and  family  services  or  an authorized agency requests a
  certified copy or certified transcript of birth for a  youth  placed  in
  the  custody of the local commissioner of social services or the custody
  of the office of children and family services pursuant to article  three
  of the family court act for the purpose of providing such certified copy
  or  certified  transcript  of  birth  to  such  youth in anticipation of
  discharge from placement. Whenever a request is made by  the  department
  of  corrections  and  community  supervision  for  a  certified  copy or
  certified transcript of birth on behalf of  an  incarcerated  individual
  pursuant  to  this  section,  a  certified  copy  of  the  sentence  and
  commitment or  certificate  of  conviction  shall  be  deemed  to  grant
  authorization by the incarcerated individual to the department to submit
  such  request  on  their  behalf,  and  no  other authorization shall be
  required.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 42 - Cadavers › Title 1 - Disposition › 4200 - Cadavers; Duty of Burial.

§  4200.  Cadavers; duty of burial.  1. Except in the cases in which a
  right to dissect it is expressly conferred  by  law,  every  body  of  a
  deceased  person, within this state, shall be decently buried, naturally
  organically reduced, or  incinerated  within  a  reasonable  time  after
  death.
2.  The provisions of this section shall not impair the right to carry
  the body of a deceased person through this state, or to remove from this
  state the body of a person who has died within it, for  the  purpose  of
  burying the same elsewhere.