N.Y. Public Health Law § 4172: Records; registrar to transmit through health officers

§ 4172. Records; registrar to transmit through health officers. 1.

When the commissioner shall have so ordered, each registrar shall

transmit, at such times as the commissioner shall direct, to designated

local health units or officials copies of original birth and death

certificates which have been registered in such primary registration

district, and the statistical abstract of fetal death.

2. Each designated local health unit or official receiving copies of

original certificates shall retain such copies thereof pursuant to

subdivision one of this section as confidential records subject to such

further regulation to assure such confidentiality as may be prescribed

by the commissioner.