Title PBH, Public Health

§ 4138-e. Adoptee's right to a certified copy of his or her birth certificate. 1. The legislature hereby states its intention to acknowledge, support and encourage the life-long health and well-being needs of persons who have been and will be adopted in this state. The legislatu…

§ 4139. Certificates of dissolution of marriages to be filed with the department; duties of county clerks in connection therewith. 1. No interlocutory decree, judgment or order of divorce, annulment, or other dissolution of marriage shall hereafter be filed or entered in the off…

§ 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 …

§ 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 …

§ 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 pr…

§ 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…

§ 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 …

§ 4144. Deaths; burial and removal permits; transportation of remains. 1. The body of any person whose death occurs in this state, or which shall be found dead herein shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, cremated or otherwise disposed of, or removed from this sta…

§ 4145. Deaths; burial and removal permits; disposition of remains. 1. No person in charge of any premises on which interments, cremations, natural organic reductions or other disposition of the body of a deceased person are made shall inter or permit the interment or other disp…

§ 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 i…

§ 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 survivi…

§ 4148. Electronic death registration system. 1. The department is hereby authorized and directed to design, implement and maintain an electronic death registration system for collecting, storing, recording, transmitting, amending, correcting and authenticating information, as n…

§ 4160. Pregnancy loss; reporting. 1. Pregnancy loss is defined as the loss of a pregnancy at any gestation, as confirmed by a health care provider licensed pursuant to title eight of the education law and acting within such health care provider's scope of practice, including sp…

§ 4160-a. Certificate of still birth. 1. The department, or in the city of New York, the New York city department of health and mental hygiene, shall establish a certificate of still birth. The department, or in the city of New York, the New York city department of health and me…

§ 4161. Pregnancy loss certificates; form and content; health care professionals and hospital administrators. 1. The certificate of pregnancy loss and the report of pregnancy loss shall contain such information and be in such form as the commissioner may prescribe; provided howe…

§ 4162. Products of conception; burial and removal; permits. 1. Upon request a permit shall be issued for the removal, transportation, burial or other disposition of products of conception. 2. Such permit shall be issued by the local registrar of the district in which the pregna…

§ 4163. Penalties. Any person who shall release information which might disclose the identity of the pregnant person in connection with a certificate of pregnancy loss or report of pregnancy loss in violation of the provisions of this title shall be subject to a civil penalty no…

§ 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 p…

§ 4170. Records; general duties of registrars. Each registrar shall: (a) supply blank forms of certificates to such persons as require them; (b) examine each certificate of birth or death when presented for record in order to ascertain whether or not it has been made out in acco…

§ 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, u…

§ 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 certifi…

§ 4173. Records; transcripts and certifications by registrars; fees.\n1. Upon request, a certification of birth or of death or a certified\ncopy or certified transcript of a birth or death record shall be issued\nby the registrar under regulations prescribed by the commissioner.…

§ 4174. Records; transcripts and certifications by commissioner; fees.\n1. The commissioner or any person authorized by him shall:\n (a) upon request, issue to any applicant either a certified copy or a\ncertified transcript of the record of any death registered under the\nprovi…

§ 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 …

§ 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.…

§ 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 com…

§ 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 calen…

§ 420. Boards of visitors; appointment. 1. (a) Subject to the provisions of this chapter, each hospital in the department shall continue to have a board of seven visitors, to be appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate; provided however that in …

§ 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…

§ 4201. Disposition of remains; responsibility therefor. 1. As used in\nthis section, the following terms shall have the following meanings,\nunless the context otherwise requires:\n (a) "Cremation" means the incineration of human remains.\n (b) "Disposition" means the care, dis…

§ 4202. Cremated remains; disposition. 1. Every body delivered to a cemetery for cremation, or natural organic reduction, shall be accompanied by a statement from a physician, coroner, or medical examiner certifying that such body does not contain a battery or power cell. The pe…

§ 4203. Cremated or naturally organically reduced remains of a veteran; disposition. 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "veteran" means a deceased person who: (i) served in the active military or naval service of the United Sta…

§ 4209. Autopsies; right to perform. No person shall make any incision preparatory to or during an autopsy except (a) a duly licensed medical physician or osteopathic physician, (b) a resident physician, (c) a medical intern, (d) a student in a registered medical school, dental …

§ 4209-a. Procedure for obtaining identification by persons opposed to the dissection or autopsy of their bodies upon their death. Except as required by law, no dissection or autopsy shall be performed on the body of any person who is carrying an identification card upon his per…

§ 421. Boards of visitors; officers; meetings. 1. The board of visitors of a hospital in the department shall elect a chairman from among its members. 2. (a) The board of visitors of each hospital in the department, other than the institute for the study of malignant diseases, s…

§ 4210. Deceased persons; right to dissect. The right to dissect the body of a deceased person exists in the following cases: 1. In the cases prescribed by special statutes; or, 2. When the dissection is performed by or at the direction of (a) a coroner who is a physician licens…

§ 4210-a. Unlawful dissection of the body of a human being. A person who makes, or causes or procures to be made, any dissection of the body of a human being, except by authority of law, or in pursuance of a permission given by the deceased, is guilty of a class E felony.

§ 4210-b. Certain unauthorized autopsies. A person authorized by law to perform a dissection or autopsy who acts in good faith in accordance with the terms of this article but is unaware of the existence of an identification card indicating the decedent's opposition to the disse…

§ 4210-c. Limitations to dissection or autopsy. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the absence of a compelling public necessity, no dissection or autopsy shall be performed over the objection of a surviving relative or friend of the deceased that such procedure is…

§ 4211. Cadavers; unclaimed; delivery to schools for study. 1. Except as hereinafter provided, and subject to the conditions specified in this article, the director or person in charge of any hospital, institution, morgue or other place for bodies of deceased persons not interre…

§ 4212. Cadavers; unclaimed; delivery to schools; procedure. 1. (a) A university, college, school or institute desiring to avail itself of the provisions of section forty-two hundred eleven of this title, shall notify the person having lawful possession, charge, custody or contr…

§ 4213. Cadavers; delivery to relatives or friends. 1. In the counties of Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Madison and Cortland, a friend who claims the body of a deceased person for interment or other disposition may be required by the person having lawful possession, charge, custody …

§ 4214. Cadavers; autopsy by order of hospital authorities. 1. The director or person having lawful control and management of any hospital in which a patient has died may order the performance of an autopsy upon the body of such deceased person, after first giving notice of the …

§ 4215. Cadavers; burial after autopsy and dissection. 1. In all cases in which a dissection has been made, the provisions of this article, requiring the burial or other lawful disposition of a body of a deceased person, and the provisions of law providing for the punishment of …

§ 4216. Body stealing. A person who removes the dead body of a human being, or any tissue, organ or part thereof from a grave, vault, or other place, where the same has been buried, or from a place where the same has been deposited while awaiting burial, without authority of law…

§ 4217. Receiving stolen body of a human being. A person who purchases, or receives except for the purpose of burial, the dead body of a human being, or any tissue, organ, or part thereof, knowing that the same has been removed contrary to section forty-two hundred sixteen of th…

§ 4218. Opening graves. A person who opens a grave or other place of interment, temporary or otherwise, or a building wherein the dead body of a human being is deposited while awaiting burial, without authority of law, with intent to remove the body, or any tissue, organ or part…

§ 4219. Arresting or attaching a dead body of a human being. A person who arrests or attaches the dead body of a human being upon any debt or demand whatever, or detains or claims to detain it for any debt or demand, or upon any pretended lien or charge, is guilty of a misdemean…

§ 422. Boards of visitors; compensation and expenses of members. Members of the board of visitors of each hospital in the department shall receive no compensation, but each shall be entitled to receive his expenses actually and necessarily incurred in the performance of his duti…

§ 4220. Disturbing funerals. A person who, without authority of law, obstructs or detains any persons engaged in carrying or accompanying the dead body of a human being to a place of burial, is guilty of a misdemeanor.