Title PBH, Public Health

§ 4137. Births; notice of recording. 1. (a) Within ten days after\nreceiving the certificate of birth the registrar shall furnish without\ncharge to the parents or guardian of the child or to the mother at the\naddress designated by her for the purpose, a certified copy.\n (b) T…

§ 4138. Birth certificate; new certificate in case of subsequent\nmarriage of unwed parents; adoption; adjudication of parentage; change\nof name of registrant or parent; gender transition of registrant or\nparent. 1. A new certificate of birth shall be made whenever:\n (a) proo…

§ 4138-a. Certificate of birth data. Any existing certificate of birth\ndata shall continue to be effective.\n

§ 4138-b. Birth certificate: foreign adoption. 1. Whenever the\nfinalization of a foreign adoption or recognition of a foreign adoption\nof a person of any age pursuant to section one hundred eleven-c of the\ndomestic relations law, or the adoption of a foreign-born person of an…

§ 4138-c. Adoption information registry. 1. There shall be established\nin the department an adoption information registry operated by employees\nof the department specifically designated by the commissioner. Access to\nall records and information in the registry shall be limite…

§ 4138-d. Mutual consent voluntary adoption registry. 1. A mutual\nconsent voluntary adoption registry may be established and maintained by\neach authorized agency involved in an adoption. Persons eligible to\nreceive identifying information may work through the agency involved …

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

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

§ 4140. Deaths; registration. 1. The death of each person who has died\nin this state shall be registered immediately and not later than\nseventy-two hours after death or the finding of a dead human body, by\nfiling with the registrar of the district in which the death occurred …

§ 4141. Death certificate; form and content. 1. The certificate of\ndeath shall contain such information, including but not limited to the\ndecedent's social security number, and shall be in such form as the\ncommissioner may prescribe.\n 2. The personal particulars called for s…

§ 4141-a. Death certificate; duties of hospital administrator. When a\ndeath occurs in a hospital, except in those cases where certificates are\nissued by coroners or medical examiners, the person in charge of such\nhospital or his or her designated representative shall promptly…

§ 4142. Death certificate; duties of funeral director. In each case\nthe funeral director, undertaker or person having charge of the body of\na deceased person, shall:\n (a) obtain the personal and statistical particulars required for the\ncertificate of death from a competent p…

§ 4143. Deaths without medical attendance; registration. 1. In case of\nany death occurring without medical attendance, it shall be the duty of\nthe funeral director, undertaker or any other person to whose knowledge\nthe death may come, to give notice of such death to the coron…

§ 4144. Deaths; burial and removal permits; transportation of remains.\n1. The body of any person whose death occurs in this state, or which\nshall be found dead herein shall not be interred, deposited in a vault\nor tomb, cremated or otherwise disposed of, or removed from this …

§ 4145. Deaths; burial and removal permits; disposition of remains.\n1. No person in charge of any premises on which interments, cremations,\nnatural organic reductions or other disposition of the body of a\ndeceased person are made shall inter or permit the interment or other\n…

§ 4146. Deaths; burial permits; interments in certain cemeteries\nprohibited. 1. Whenever the legislative authority of any municipality\nshall deem that further interments in any cemetery in such municipality\nwould be detrimental to the public health, it may by resolution direc…

§ 4147. Deaths; confidentiality of records. The death certificate,\nburial permit or any other record of death or interment, as defined by\narticle forty-one of this chapter, including but not limited to the\nname, address or telephone number of the decedent, next of kin or\nsur…

§ 4148. Electronic death registration system. 1. The department is\nhereby authorized and directed to design, implement and maintain an\nelectronic death registration system for collecting, storing, recording,\ntransmitting, amending, correcting and authenticating information, a…

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

§ 4160-a. Certificate of still birth. 1. The department, or in the\ncity of New York, the New York city department of health and mental\nhygiene, shall establish a certificate of still birth. The department,\nor in the city of New York, the New York city department of health and…

§ 4161. Pregnancy loss certificates; form and content; health care\nprofessionals and hospital administrators. 1. The certificate of\npregnancy loss and the report of pregnancy loss shall contain such\ninformation and be in such form as the commissioner may prescribe;\nprovided …

§ 4162. Products of conception; burial and removal; permits. 1. Upon\nrequest a permit shall be issued for the removal, transportation, burial\nor other disposition of products of conception.\n 2. Such permit shall be issued by the local registrar of the district\nin which the p…

§ 4163. Penalties. Any person who shall release information which\nmight disclose the identity of the pregnant person in connection with a\ncertificate of pregnancy loss or report of pregnancy loss in violation\nof the provisions of this title shall be subject to a civil penalty…

§ 4165. Persons in institutions; registration. 1. Directors,\nsuperintendents, managers or other persons in charge of hospitals, homes\nfor indigents, lying-in or other institutions, public or private, to\nwhich persons resort for treatment of diseases or confinement, or to\nwhi…

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

§ 4171. Records; duties of physicians, nurse practitioners, and others\nto furnish information. 1. Physicians, nurse practitioners,\nnurse-midwives, funeral directors, undertakers and informants, and all\nother persons having knowledge of the facts, are hereby required to\nsuppl…

§ 4172. Records; registrar to transmit through health officers. 1.\nWhen the commissioner shall have so ordered, each registrar shall\ntransmit, at such times as the commissioner shall direct, to designated\nlocal health units or officials copies of original birth and death\ncer…

§ 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\nafter the birth, or within one year of the death, of any person within\nthe state, a certified copy of the official record of said birth or\ndeath, with the information required to be registered by this article,\…

§ 4176. Records; correction of defective registration. 1. If defects\nbe found in the registration under the supervision of a registrar of\nvital statistics, the commissioner shall notify such registrar that such\ndefects must be corrected within ten days of the date of the noti…

§ 4177. Vital records; refund of fees. Moneys received pursuant to\nthis article may within one year from the receipt thereof be refunded on\nproof satisfactory to the commissioner that such moneys were in excess\nof amounts required by law. Such refund shall after audit by the\…

§ 4179. Vital records; fees; city of New York. Notwithstanding the\nprovisions of paragraph one of subdivision a of section 207.13 of the\nhealth code of the city of New York, the department of health shall\ncharge, and the applicant shall pay, for a search of two consecutive\nc…

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

§ 4200. Cadavers; duty of burial. 1. Except in the cases in which a\nright to dissect it is expressly conferred by law, every body of a\ndeceased person, within this state, shall be decently buried, naturally\norganically reduced, or incinerated within a reasonable time after\nd…

§ 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\ncemetery for cremation, or natural organic reduction, shall be\naccompanied by a statement from a physician, coroner, or medical\nexaminer certifying that such body does not contain a battery or power\ncell. Th…

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

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

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

§ 421. Boards of visitors; officers; meetings. 1. The board of\nvisitors of a hospital in the department shall elect a chairman from\namong its members.\n 2. (a) The board of visitors of each hospital in the department, other\nthan the institute for the study of malignant diseas…

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

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

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

§ 4210-c. Limitations to dissection or autopsy. 1. Notwithstanding any\nother provision of law, in the absence of a compelling public necessity,\nno dissection or autopsy shall be performed over the objection of a\nsurviving relative or friend of the deceased that such procedure…

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

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

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

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

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