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(L.L. 2015/002, 1/8/2015, eff. 2/22/2015)
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 2015/002.
Within ten days after the receipt of the report of any birth, the department shall furnish, without charge, to the parents or guardian of the child or to the mother at the address designated by her for the purpose, a certificate of registration of birth. Such certificate of registration shall be issued on forms furnished by the department.
Editor's note: this section has been amended by L.L. 2024/110, 11/9/2024, eff. 11/9/2025.
a. Within three months after the receipt of the report of any birth, the department shall provide college savings plan materials described in subdivision b of section 3-209.2 to the parents or guardian of the child, at the address designated for receipt of the child's certificate of registration of birth pursuant to section 17-168.
b. The department shall make such college savings plan materials available on its website in English and each of the designated citywide languages as defined in section 23-1101 of the administrative code.
(L.L. 2017/073, 5/10/2017, eff. 9/7/2017)
a. Upon request the department shall issue a certified copy of the birth record or a certification of birth under the following conditions:
1. A certified copy of the record of birth shall be issued only upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction or, if the person for whom the record of birth relates is still living, upon a specific request therefor by the person, if eighteen years of age or more, or by a parent or to the legal representative of the person to whom the record of birth relates or by an attorney of law authorized in writing by the person if of the age of eighteen years or over to whom the record of birth relates. If the person for whom the record of birth relates is deceased, the department may allow family members of that person to have access to a certified copy of the record of birth. The department may issue a certified copy of a birth record of any person for official use upon the request of a department, agency, or officer of any state government or subdivision thereof or the United States government.
2. Upon request in all other cases, a certification of birth shall be issued by the department unless it does not appear to be necessary or required for a proper purpose. A certification of birth shall contain only the name, sex, date of birth and place of birth and date of filing in the department of the original certificate of birth of the person to whom it relates, and if upon request by, or on behalf of the person to whom it relates, or by a parent or legal representative of such person, the name or names of the parent or parents listed on the original certificate of birth, and none of the other data on the record of birth. Whenever a certification of birth may be issued, the department may, upon request, issue a wallet-size certification of birth, in a form and bearing a design provided by the department. Each applicant for a wallet-size certification of birth shall remit to the department with such application, a fee determined by the department.
3. When the license to practice medicine of an attending physician listed on a given birth record has been surrendered or revoked by the New York state office of professional medical conduct, then upon request by either (i) the person whose birth the record documents, if eighteen years of age or older, or that person's legal representative or (ii) the parent or legal representative of a person under the age of eighteen whose birth the record documents, the department shall issue a certified copy of the birth record with the identity of such physician redacted. Such request shall be made in the form or manner to be provided or approved by the department. Nothing in this paragraph requires a court order.
b. A transcript of a record of fetal death, or death, upon such forms as the department shall prescribe, shall be issued upon request unless it does not appear to be necessary or required for a proper purpose. The board may prescribe reasonable fees for searches made of records of birth, fetal death, or death, and the usual fees for copies of records to be paid for certifications of birth and for transcripts of records of birth, fetal death, or death, and in what cases the payment of fees may be waived.
c. The United States department of health and human services may obtain, without expense to the city, transcripts of records of birth, fetal deaths and deaths without payment of fees here prescribed for use solely as statistical data. Any copy of the record of a birth, fetal death, or death, or any certificate of registration of birth, or certification of birth, when properly certified by the commissioner or persons authorized to act for such commissioner, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated, in all courts, and places, and in all actions, proceedings or applications, judicial, administrative or otherwise, and any such certificate of registration of birth or certification of birth shall be accepted with the same force and effect with respect to the facts therein stated as the original birth record or a certified copy thereof.
d. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person born in the city of New York being released from a New York state correctional facility shall, prior to release, be provided by the department, at no cost to such person, a certified copy of his or her birth certificate to be used for any lawful purpose; provided that such person has requested a copy of his or her birth certificate at least ninety days prior to his or her release, from the (a) department, or (b) New York state department of correctional services and the New York state department of correctional services has submitted such request to the department. No person shall receive more than one birth certificate without charge pursuant to this subdivision.
e. The department, in accordance with the authorization in section 207.13 of the New York city health code to waive any fee to correct a transcript of a record of death for good cause, shall not charge a fee for an amendment of such a transcript that would change or supplement the cause of death by citing the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) known as COVID-19, or to health complications related thereto.
(Am. L.L. 2018/163, 10/9/2018, eff. 1/1/2019; Am. L.L. 2019/080, 4/28/2019, eff. 1/1/2020; Am. L.L. 2021/139, 11/21/2021, eff. 11/21/2021)
a. The department and the clerk of the county of Kings are authorized to transfer to and the department of general services is authorized to receive all original records of births, deaths and marriages filed prior to the year eighteen hundred sixty-six with the department or the office of the city inspector or any such records transferred to the clerk of the county of Kings together with the indexes to such records and the department of general services shall file and maintain such records as public records.
b. Original records of births, deaths, and fetal deaths filed with the department or the office of the city inspector subsequent to the year eighteen hundred sixty-five and the indexes to such records shall be transferred by the department to the department of records and information services at such times as the board of health shall determine; said records shall be filed and maintained by the department of records and information services as public records.
c. Upon the transfer of such records the commissioner of the department of records and information services shall have the authority to issue upon request certified copies of or extracts from such records.
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1996/059.
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