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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3549
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 28, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. WEINSTEIN, JAFFEE, GABRYSZAK, GALEF, CASTRO --
          Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.  ABBATE,  COOK,  CROUCH,  GOTTFRIED,
          MARKEY,  SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judici-
          ary
 
        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to limiting the  scope

          of information disclosed in a published notice of change of name
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 63 of the civil rights law, as amended  by  chapter
     2  258 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 63. Order. If the court to which the petition is presented is satis-
     4  fied  thereby,  or by the affidavit and certificate presented therewith,
     5  that the petition is true, and that there is no reasonable objection  to
     6  the  change  of name proposed, and if the petition be to change the name
     7  of an infant, that the interests of the  infant  will  be  substantially
     8  promoted  by  the  change, the court shall make an order authorizing the
     9  petitioner to assume the name proposed. The order shall  further  recite

    10  the  date  and place of birth of the applicant and, if the applicant was
    11  born in the state of New York, such order shall set forth the number  of
    12  his  birth  certificate  or  that no birth certificate is available. The
    13  order shall be directed to be entered and the papers  on  which  it  was
    14  granted to be filed prior to the publication hereinafter directed in the
    15  clerk's office of the county in which the petitioner resides if he be an
    16  individual, or in the office of the clerk of the civil court of the city
    17  of  New  York if the order be made by that court.  Such order shall also
    18  direct the publication, at least  once,  within  sixty  days  after  the
    19  making  of  the  order, in a designated newspaper in the county in which
    20  the order is directed to be entered and if the petition  is  made  by  a
    21  person subject to the provisions of subdivision two of section sixty-two

    22  of  this  article,  in a designated newspaper in any county wherein such
    23  person was convicted if different from the county in which the order  is
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03017-01-3
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     1  otherwise  directed  to  be  entered,  of  a notice in substantially the
     2  following form: Notice is hereby given that  an  order  entered  by  the
     3  ............  court,............  county,  on  the ...... day of.......,
     4  bearing  Index Number..........., a copy of which may be examined at the
     5  office  of  the   clerk,   located   at   .................,   in   room
     6  number.......,   grants   me   the   right   to   assume   the  name  of

     7  ................... [My] The city and state of my present  address  [is]
     8  are  .........................;  the  [date]  month and year of my birth
     9  [is]   are   ................;   the    place    of    my    birth    is
    10  ....................;         my         present         name         is
    11  .................................
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.