N.Y. Public Health Law § 4142: Death certificate; duties of funeral director

§ 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 particulars required for the

certificate of death from a competent person acquainted with the facts

and qualified to supply them and enter them on the certificate together

with the name and address of his informant;

(b) present the certificate promptly to the attending physician or

nurse practitioner, who shall forthwith certify to the facts of death,

provide the medical information required by the certificate and sign the

medical certificate of death, or to the coroner or medical examiner in

those cases where so required by this article or, when a death occurs in

a hospital, except in those cases where certificates are issued by

coroners or medical examiners, to the person in charge of such hospital

or his or her designated representative, who shall obtain the medical

certificate of death as prescribed in section four thousand one hundred

forty-one-a of this title;

(c) state the facts required on the certificate of death relative to

the date and place of burial, cremation or removal, over his signature

and with his address; and,

(d) prior to the disposition of the remains, file the certificate of

death with the registrar of the district in which the death occurred as

provided in section four thousand one hundred forty of this article.

(e) notwithstanding any contrary provisions of law as may be set forth

in this section, commencing on or after the implementation date under

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

signatures required by this subdivision shall be obtained and made in

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