2013 New York Consolidated Laws
CVR - Civil Rights
Article 6 - (60 - 65) 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  inmate 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.