N.Y. Public Health Law § 4133: Birth certificate; incomplete; duty of registrar

§ 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 filed

shall immediately notify the person who signed the record, and require

him to supply the missing items of information if they can be obtained.

2. In any case where the physician or nurse-midwife in attendance upon

the birth of a child within this state, or other person reporting a

birth of a child within this state as provided by section four thousand

one hundred thirty of this chapter, is unable, by diligent inquiry, to

obtain any item or items of information required in this article, it

shall then be the duty of the registrar to secure from the person so

reporting, or from any other person having the required knowledge, such

information as will enable the registrar to prepare the certificate of

birth herein required.

3. It shall be the duty of the person reporting such birth or who is

interrogated in relation thereto to answer correctly and to the best of

his knowledge all questions put to him by the registrar which may be

calculated to elicit any information needed to make a complete record of

the birth as contemplated by this article, and it shall be the duty of

the informant as to any statement made in accordance herewith to verify

such statement by his signature, when requested so to do by the

registrar.