New York Public Health Law Section 4175 - Records; unrecorded births and deaths.

  4175.  Records;  unrecorded  births  and deaths. 1. If, at any time
  after the birth, or within one year of the death, of any  person  within
  the  state,  a  certified  copy  of the official record of said birth or
  death, with the information required to be registered by  this  article,
  is  necessary  for legal, judicial, or other proper purposes, and, after
  search by the commissioner or his or  her  representatives,  it  appears
  that  no  such  certificate  of  birth  or  death  was made and filed as
  provided by  this  article,  then  the  commissioner  shall  immediately
  require  the  physician, nurse practitioner, or nurse-midwife who, being
  in attendance upon a birth, failed or neglected to  file  a  certificate
  thereof,  or  the  funeral  director,  undertaker,  or other person who,
  having charge of the interment or removal of  the  body  of  a  deceased
  person,  failed  or neglected to file the certificate of death, if he or
  she is living, to obtain and file at once with the local registrar  such
  certificate in as complete form as the lapse of time will permit.
2.  With  said  delayed  certificate  shall  be  filed such statements
  subscribed and affirmed by the persons making them  as  true  under  the
  penalties  of  perjury  and  other  evidence  as  may be required by the
  commissioner.
3.  If  the  physician,  nurse  practitioner,  nurse-midwife,  funeral
  director, or undertaker responsible for the report is deceased or cannot
  be located, then the person making application for the certified copy of
  the  record  may  file  such certificate of birth or death together with
  such statements subscribed and affirmed by the persons  making  them  as
  true   under  the  penalties  of  perjury  and  other  evidence  as  the
  commissioner may require.
4. The commissioner shall file such certificate and issue a  certified
  copy thereof to said applicant without fee.
5.   The  delinquent  physician,  nurse  practitioner,  nurse-midwife,
  funeral director, undertaker, or other person may, in the discretion  of
  the commissioner, be prosecuted as required by this article, without bar
  from  the statute of limitations, if he or she neglects or fails to file
  promptly the certificate required by this section.

Last modified: February 3, 2019