Permits cooperative housing corporations to directly obtain a shareholder's death certificate upon providing appropriate documentation of their creditor status.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7739
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 2, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 permitting cooper-
ative housing corporations to directly obtain a shareholder's death
certificate
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 1 of section 4174 of the
2 public health law, as amended by chapter 396 of the laws of 1989, is
3 amended and a new paragraph (h) is added to read as follows:
4 (g) upon request of a board of elections, issue certification of
5 death[.]; or
6 (h) upon request of a cooperative housing corporation, issue a certif-
7 ication of death of a shareholder of such cooperative housing corpo-
8 ration, provided that such cooperative housing corporation submits with
9 such request appropriate documentation of their creditor status.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11882-01-5
