2023 New York Laws › CVR - Civil Rights › Article 6 - Change of Name › 62 - Notice.

§  62.  Notice. 1. If the petition be to change the name of an infant,
  notice of the time and  place  when  and  where  the  petition  will  be
  presented must be served, in like manner as a notice of a motion upon an
  attorney  in  an action, upon (a) both parents of the infant, if they be
  living, unless the petition be made by one of the parents, in which case
  notice must be served upon the other, if he or she be  living,  and  (b)
  the  general guardian or guardian of the person, if there be one. But if
  any of the persons, required to be given notice by this section,  reside
  without the state, then the notice required by this section must be sent
  by registered mail to the last known address of the person to be served.
  If it appears to the satisfaction of the court that a person required to
  be  given  notice  by  this section cannot be located with due diligence
  within the state, and that such person has no known address without  the
  state,  then  the court may dispense with notice or require notice to be
  given to such persons and in such manner as the court thinks proper.
2. If the petition be  to  change  the  name  of  a  person  currently
  confined  as  an incarcerated individual in any correctional facility or
  currently under the supervision of the  department  of  corrections  and
  community  supervision or a county probation department as a result of a
  conviction for a violent felony offense as defined in section  70.02  of
  the  penal law or a felony defined in article one hundred twenty-five of
  such law or any of the following provisions of such law sections 130.25,
  130.30, 130.40, 130.45, 255.25,  255.26,  255.27,  article  two  hundred
  sixty-three,  135.10, 135.25, 230.05, 230.06, subdivision two of section
  230.30 or 230.32, notice of the  time  and  place  when  and  where  the
  petition  will  be presented shall be served, in like manner as a notice
  of a motion upon an attorney in an action, upon the district attorney of
  every county in which such person has been convicted of such felony  and
  upon  the  court  or  courts  in  which the sentence for such felony was
  entered. Unless a shorter period of time is ordered by the  court,  said
  notice  shall  be  served  upon each such district attorney and court or
  courts not less than sixty days prior to the date on which such petition
  is noticed to be heard.
3. Except as provided in subdivisions one and two of this section, the
  court  shall  not  require  any  other  pre-hearing  notice.  Under   no
  circumstances   shall   the   court  require  notice  to  United  States
  immigration and customs enforcement, United States  customs  and  border
  protection,  United  States citizenship and immigration services, or any
  successor agencies, or any agencies having similar duties.
4. The court shall not request or require consent from any party other
  than the petitioner, or in the case of a petitioner who  does  not  have
  capacity  to  consent,  their  legal  representative,  as a condition of
  granting the name change or  obtaining  certified  copies  of  the  name
  change order.