2006 New York Code - 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 state division of parole 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, article
  263, 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.