2013 New York Consolidated Laws
MIL - Military
Article 11 - (235 - 254) PRIVILEGES, PROHIBITIONS AND PENALTIES
250 - Recording certificates of honorable discharge.

 
    § 250. Recording  certificates of honorable discharge. Any certificate
  issued after April sixth, nineteen hundred seventeen, of  the  honorable
  separation  from  or service in the armed forces of the United States of
  any veteran, may be recorded in any one county, in  the  office  of  the
  county clerk, and when so recorded shall constitute notice to all public
  officials  of  the  facts set forth therein. It shall be the duty of the
  county clerk to record the certificate upon presentation thereof without
  the payment  of  any  fee.  For  any  purpose  for  which  the  original
  certificate  may  be required in the state of New York, a certified copy
  of the record shall be deemed sufficient and shall be accepted  in  lieu
  thereof. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of law, it shall be
  the  duty  of the county clerk of each county, to furnish without charge
  to any veteran, or parent, spouse, dependent or child of the veteran,  a
  certified  copy  of  the  certificate  of the veteran so recorded in the
  office of the county clerk. No  filed  certificate  or  any  information
  contained  therein,  shall be disclosed to any person except the veteran
  or parent, spouse, dependent or child of the veteran, representative  of
  the  estate  of the deceased veteran or a public official, acting within
  the scope of his or her employment, unless such disclosure is authorized
  in writing by the veteran. The provisions of this section also apply  to
  the counties within the city of New York.