2016 New York Laws
CVR - Civil Rights
Article 6 - (Civil Rights) CHANGE OF NAME
63 - Order.

  63.  Order.  If  the  court  to  which the petition is presented is
  satisfied  thereby,  or  by  the  affidavit  and  certificate  presented
  therewith,  that  the  petition is true, and that there is no reasonable
  objection to the change of name proposed, and  if  the  petition  be  to
  change  the  name of an infant, that the interests of the infant will be
  substantially promoted by the change, the  court  shall  make  an  order
  authorizing  the petitioner to assume the name proposed. The order shall
  further recite the date and place of birth of the applicant and, if  the
  applicant  was born in the state of New York, such order shall set forth
  the number of his birth certificate or  that  no  birth  certificate  is
  available.  The  order shall be directed to be entered and the papers on
  which it was granted to be filed prior to  the  publication  hereinafter
  directed  in  the  clerk's  office of the county in which the petitioner
  resides if he be an individual, or in the office of  the  clerk  of  the
  civil  court of the city of New York if the order be made by that court.
  Such order shall also direct the  publication,  at  least  once,  within
  sixty  days  after the making of the order, in a designated newspaper in
  the county in which the order is directed  to  be  entered  and  if  the
  petition  is  made  by a person subject to the provisions of subdivision
  two of section sixty-two of this article, in a designated  newspaper  in
  any  county  wherein  such  person  was  convicted if different from the
  county in which the order is otherwise directed  to  be  entered,  of  a
  notice  in substantially the following form: Notice is hereby given that
  an order entered by the ............ court,............ county,  on  the
  ......  day  of......., bearing Index Number..........., a copy of which
  may  be  examined   at   the   office   of   the   clerk,   located   at
  .................,  in room number......., grants me the right to assume
  the name of ...................   The  city  and  state  of  my  present
  address  are  .........................;  the month and year of my birth
  are ................; the place of my birth is ....................;  my
  present name is .................................