STATE OF NEW YORK
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3049
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, COOK, CYMBROWITZ -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the registration
of live births
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 4130 of the public health law, as
2 amended by chapter 506 of the laws of 1955, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. The birth of each child born alive in this state shall be regis-
5 tered within [five] fifteen days after the date of birth by filing with
6 the registrar of the district in which the birth occurred a certificate
7 of such birth, which certificate shall be upon the form prescribed
8 therefor by the commissioner.
9 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 4130 of the public health law, as
10 amended by chapter 884 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as
11 follows:
12 4. In each case where there was no physician or nurse-midwife in
13 attendance upon the birth, it shall be the duty of the father or mother
14 of the child, the householder or owner of the premises where the birth
15 occurred, or the director or person in charge of the public or private
16 institution where the birth occurred, each in the order named, within
17 [five] fifteen days after the date of such birth, to report to the local
18 registrar the fact of such birth and to file said certificate.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03720-01-9
