New York Public Health Law Title 4 - REGISTRATION OF DEATHS: BURIAL PERMITS

• 4140 - Deaths; Registration.
  1. The death of each person who has died in this state shall be registered immediately and not later than seventy-two hours after death or...
• 4141 - Death Certificate; Form and Content.
  1. The certificate of death shall contain such information, including but not limited to the decedent's social security number, and shall be in such form...
• 4141-a - Death Certificate; Duties of Hospital Administrator.
  When a death occurs in a hospital, except in those cases where certificates are issued by coroners or medical examiners, the person in charge of...
• 4142 - Death Certificate; Duties of Funeral Director.
  In each case the funeral director, undertaker or person having charge of the body of a deceased person, shall: (a) obtain the personal and statistical...
• 4143 - Deaths Without Medical Attendance; Registration.
  1. In case of any death occurring without medical attendance, it shall be the duty of the funeral director, undertaker or any other person to...
• 4144 - Deaths; Burial and Removal Permits; Transportation of Remains.
  1. The body of any person whose death occurs in this state, or which shall be found dead herein shall not be interred, deposited in...
• 4145 - Deaths; Burial and Removal Permits; Disposition of Remains.
  1. No person in charge of any premises on which interments, cremations or other disposition of the body of a deceased person are made shall...
• 4146 - Deaths; Burial Permits; Interments in Certain Cemeteries Prohibited.
  1. Whenever the legislative authority of any municipality shall deem that further interments in any cemetery in such municipality would be detrimental to the public...
• 4147 - Deaths; Confidentiality of Records.
  The death certificate, burial permit or any other record of death or interment, as defined by article forty-one of this chapter, including but not limited...
• 4148 - Electronic Death Registration System.
  1. The department is hereby authorized and directed to design, implement and maintain an electronic death registration system for collecting, storing, recording, transmitting, amending, correcting...

Last modified: February 3, 2019