2006 New York Code - Certification Of Marriage; State Commissioner Of Health May Furnish.

 
    §  20-b.  Certification  of marriage; state commissioner of health may
  furnish. 1. The state commissioner of health or person authorized by him
  shall, upon request, issue to  any  applicant  a  certification  of  any
  marriage  registered  under the provisions of this article, unless he is
  satisfied that the same does not appear to be necessary or required  for
  judicial  or  other  proper purposes. Any such certification of marriage
  made by such commissioner or person authorized to act for him  shall  be
  prima  facie  evidence  in  all  courts  and places of the facts therein
  stated.
    2. Such certification shall contain  a  statement  of  the  respective
  names,  dates  and  places  of birth and places of the then residence of
  each of the parties to such marriage and the date and place thereof.
    3. Each applicant for a certification of marriage shall remit  to  the
  commissioner  with  such  application a fee of thirty dollars in payment
  for the search of the files and  records  and  the  furnishing  of  such
  certification if a record thereof is found or for a certification that a
  search discloses no record of a marriage.
    4.  The  federal agency in charge of vital statistics may obtain, at a
  fee acceptable to the commissioner, information  from  marriage  records
  for use solely as statistical data.