2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 41 - VITAL STATISTICS
Title 7 - (4170 - 4179) 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.