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                                   January 11, 2010
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

       AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  the  fee  charged
         for the issuance of birth and death records in certain cities

         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 4173 of the public health law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  524  of  the  laws  of 2007, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    3. The registrar shall be entitled to a fee of ten dollars, except  in
    5  the  [county]  COUNTIES  of Chemung [and the county of], Monroe [and the
    6  county of], Onondaga and [the county of] Tompkins whereby such fee shall
    7  be set by the county health commissioner and in  the  [city]  CITIES  of
    8  Oswego  AND  UTICA  whereby such fee shall be set by the [Oswego] common
    9  council OF SUCH CITIES, up to the amount charged by the commissioner  as
   10  prescribed  in subdivision two of section forty-one hundred seventy-four
   11  of this title for each certification of  birth  or  death  or  for  each
   12  certified  copy or certified transcript of any record of a birth or of a
   13  death or for a certification that a search  discloses  no  record  of  a
   14  birth  or  of  a death, furnished by him to an applicant, except that no
   15  fee shall be charged for a search, certification of birth  or  death  or
   16  certified  copy  or certified transcript of a birth or a death record to
   17  be used for school entrance, employment certificate or for  purposes  of
   18  public  relief or government compensation or when required by the veter-
   19  ans administration to be used in  determining  the  eligibility  of  any
   20  person  to  participate  in  the benefits made available by the veterans
   21  administration, provided, however, that if  such  registrar  is  a  city
   22  clerk,  town  clerk or village clerk, he shall collect such fees for and
   23  on behalf of the city, town or village in  which  he  serves,  provided,
   24  however, that an amount equivalent to the sum of such fees shall be paid
   25  at  least monthly by such city, town or village to such city clerk, town
   26  clerk or village clerk entitled to receive fees as a registrar of  vital
   27  statistics.
   28    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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