STATE OF NEW YORK
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3421
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 9, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- 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 for issu-
ance of birth and death records in the city of Jamestown
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] (a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this
5 subdivision, the registrar shall be entitled to a fee of ten dollars[,
6 except in the county of Chemung and the county of Monroe and the county
7 of Onondaga and the county of Tompkins whereby such fee shall be set by
8 the county health commissioner and in the city of Oswego whereby such
9 fee shall be set by the Oswego common council, up to the amount charged
10 by the commissioner as prescribed in subdivision two of section forty-
11 one hundred seventy-four of this title] for each certification of birth
12 or death or for each certified copy or certified transcript of any
13 record of a birth or of a death or for a certification that a search
14 discloses no record of a birth or of a death, furnished by him or her to
15 an applicant, except that no fee shall be charged for a search, certif-
16 ication of birth or death or certified copy or certified transcript of a
17 birth or a death record to be used for school entrance, employment
18 certificate or for purposes of public relief or government compensation
19 or when required by the veterans administration to be used in determin-
20 ing the eligibility of any person to participate in the benefits made
21 available by the veterans administration, provided, however, that if
22 such registrar is a city clerk, town clerk or village clerk, he or she
23 shall collect such fees for and on behalf of the city, town or village
24 in which he or she serves, provided, however, that an amount equivalent
25 to the sum of such fees shall be paid at least monthly by such city,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 town or village to such city clerk, town clerk or village clerk entitled
2 to receive fees as a registrar of vital statistics.
3 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
4 sion, in the counties of Chemung, Monroe, Onondaga and Tompkins the fee
5 shall be set by the county health commissioner, and in the cities of
6 Oswego and Jamestown the fee shall be set by the city legislative body.
7 In such counties and cities the fee may be set up to the amount charged
8 by the commissioner as prescribed in subdivision two of section forty-
9 one hundred seventy-four of this title.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
