N.Y. Civil Practice Law & Rules § 4527: Death or other status of missing person

§ 4527. Death or other status of missing person. (a) Presumed death.

A written finding of presumed death, made by any person authorized to

make such findings by the federal missing persons act is prima facie

evidence of the death, and the date, circumstances and place of

disappearance. In the case of a merchant seaman, a written finding of

presumed death, made by the maritime war emergency board or by the war

shipping administration or the successors or assigns of such board or

administration in connection with war risk insurance is prima facie

evidence of the death, and the date, circumstances and place of

disappearance.

(b) Death, internment, capture and other status. An official written

report or record that a person is missing, missing in action, interned

in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged or captured by an enemy,

or is dead, or is alive, made by an officer or employee of the United

States authorized by law of the United States to make it is prima facie

evidence of such fact.