N.Y. Domestic Relations Law § 20: Records to be kept by the state department of health and the city clerk of the city of New York

§ 20. Records to be kept by the state department of health and the

city clerk of the city of New York. All original affidavits, statements,

consents and licenses with certificates attached, and also all written

contracts of marriages outside of the city of New York shall be kept on

file and properly indexed by the state department of health, and such

similar evidences of marriage in the city of New York shall be kept on

file and properly indexed by the city clerk of the city of New York.

They shall be carefully examined, and if any such are incomplete or

unsatisfactory the state commissioner of health and in the city of New

York the city clerk shall require such further information to be

supplied as may be necessary to make the record complete and

satisfactory. Whenever it is claimed that a mistake has been made

through inadvertence in any of the statements, affidavits or other

papers required by this section to be filed with the state department of

health, and in the city of New York with the city clerk's office, the

state commissioner of health and in the city of New York the city clerk

may file with the same, affidavits upon the part of the person claiming

to be aggrieved by such mistake, showing the true facts and the reason

for the mistake and may make a note upon such original paper, statement

or affidavit showing that a mistake is claimed to have been made and the

nature thereof.