2006 New York Code - Effect.

 
    §  64.  Effect.  If the order shall be fully complied with, and within
  forty  days  after  the  making  of  the  order,  an  affidavit  of  the
  publication  thereof  shall be filed in the office in which the order is
  entered, the petitioner shall be known by  the  name  which  is  thereby
  authorized  to  be  assumed.  If  the  surname of a parent be changed as
  provided in this article, any minor child of such parent at the time  of
  such change may thereafter assume such changed surname.
    Upon  compliance with the order and the filing of the affidavit of the
  publication, as provided in this section, the  clerk  of  the  court  in
  which  the  order has been entered shall certify that the order has been
  complied with; and, if the petition states that  the  petitioner  stands
  convicted of 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, such clerk shall
  deliver, by first class mail, a copy of  such  certified  order  to  the
  division  of  criminal  justice  services at its office in the county of
  Albany. Such certification shall appear on the original order and on any
  certified copy thereof and shall be entered in the  clerk's  minutes  of
  the proceeding.