N.Y. Public Health Law § 4141-a: Death certificate; duties of hospital administrator

§ 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 such

hospital or his or her designated representative shall promptly present

the certificate to the physician or nurse practitioner in attendance, or

a physician or nurse practitioner acting in his or her behalf, who shall

promptly certify to the facts of death, provide the medical information

required by the certificate, sign the medical certificate of death, and

thereupon return such certificate to such person, so that the

seventy-two hour registration time limit prescribed in section four

thousand one hundred forty of this title can be met; provided, however

that commencing on or after the implementation date under section

forty-one hundred forty-eight of this title, information and signatures

required by this section shall be obtained and made in accordance with

section forty-one hundred forty-eight of this title.