2006 New York Code - Reports Of Deaths And Burials

 
  § 1209. Reports of deaths and burials
    1.   Every person keeping a hotel, boarding or rooming house in any of
  the counties to which this article applies shall report  to  the  public
  administrator  of  his  county information concerning every person not a
  member of his family who shall die in his  hotel,  boarding  or  rooming
  house, within 12 hours after such death.
    2.   The chief medical examiner or such similar public officer of each
  county to which this article applies within 12 hours  after  an  inquest
  shall  report  in  writing  to  the  public administrator of his county,
  information, if known, regarding the decedent.
    3.  Every undertaker shall file a report in writing  with  the  public
  administrator  of  his  county  upon the form provided by him, within 12
  hours after receiving an order for the burial by  him  of  any  decedent
  having  no known distributees or having been survived only by cousins or
  relatives by marriage, such information regarding the decedent which  he
  may have.