New York Public Health Law Title 3 - REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS

• 4130 - Births; Registration.
  1. Live birth is defined as the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy,...
• 4131 - Births; Registration; Foundlings.
  1. The report of the finding of a child whose parents are unknown, filed by the commissioner of social services or by the city social...
• 4132 - Birth Certificate; Form and Content.
  1. The certificate of birth shall contain such information, including the social security numbers of the parents, and be in such form as the commissioner...
• 4133 - Birth Certificate; Incomplete; Duty of Registrar.
  1. If a certificate of birth is incomplete, the registrar of the district in which the birth occurred and with whom the certificate has been...
• 4134 - Birth Certificate; Unnamed Child.
  1. If a living child has not yet been named at the date of filing the certificate of birth, the space provided for the given...
• 4135 - Birth Certificate; Child Born Out of Wedlock.
  1. (a) There shall be no specific statement on the birth certificate as to whether the child is born in wedlock or out of wedlock...
• 4135-a - Birth Certificate; Child Born in Prison.
  There shall be no specific statement on the birth certificate as to the fact that a child was born in prison.
• 4135-b - Voluntary Acknowledgments of Paternity; Child Born Out of Wedlock.
  1. (a) Immediately preceding or following the in-hospital birth of a child to an unmarried woman, the person in charge of such hospital or his...
• 4136 - Birth Certificate; Statement As to Blood Test.
  1. In reporting every birth and fetal death, physicians and others permitted to attend pregnancy cases and required to report births and fetal deaths shall...
• 4137 - Births; Notice of Recording.
  1. (a) Within ten days after receiving the certificate of birth the registrar shall furnish without charge to the parents or guardian of the child...
• 4138 - Birth Certificate; New Certificate in Case of Subsequent Marriage of Unwed Parents; Adoption; Adjudication of Parentage; Change of Name.
  1. A new certificate of birth shall be made whenever: (a) proof is submitted to the commissioner that the previously unwed parents of a person...
• 4138-a - Certificate of Birth Data.
  Any existing certificate of birth data shall continue to be effective.
• 4138-b - Birth Certificate: Foreign Country Adoption.
  Whenever the adoption or finalization of a foreign adoption or recognition of a foreign adoption of a child pursuant to section one hundred eleven-c of...
• 4138-c - Adoption Information Registry.
  1. There shall be established in the department an adoption information registry operated by employees of the department specifically designated by the commissioner. Access to...
• 4138-d - Mutual Consent Voluntary Adoption Registry.
  1. A mutual consent voluntary adoption registry may be established and maintained by each authorized agency involved in an adoption. Persons eligible to receive identifying...

Last modified: February 3, 2019