N.Y. Public Health Law § 4171: Records; duties of physicians, nurse practitioners, and others to furnish information

§ 4171. Records; duties of physicians, nurse practitioners, and others

to furnish information. 1. Physicians, nurse practitioners,

nurse-midwives, funeral directors, undertakers and informants, and all

other persons having knowledge of the facts, are hereby required to

supply, upon a form provided by the commissioner or upon the original

certificate, such information as they may possess regarding any birth or

death upon demand of the commissioner, in person, by mail, or through

the registrar.

2. No forms shall be used other than those supplied by the

commissioner.

3. All certificates, either of birth or death, shall be written

legibly, in durable black ink, provided, however, that commencing on or

after the implementation date under section forty-one hundred

forty-eight of this article, death certificates shall be completed in

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

No certificate, whether filed in paper form or death certificate filed

electronically in accordance with section forty-one hundred forty-eight

of this article, shall be held to be complete and correct that does not

supply all of the items of information called for therein, or

satisfactorily account for their omission.