STATE OF NEW YORK
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8224
IN SENATE
April 24, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. BORRELLO -- 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 293 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 3. (a) [The] Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) of this
5 subdivision, the registrar shall be entitled to a fee of ten dollars for
6 each certification of birth or death or for each certified copy or
7 certified transcript of any record of a birth or of a death or for a
8 certification that a search discloses no record of a birth or of a
9 death, furnished by him to an applicant, except that no fee shall be
10 charged for a search, certification of birth or death or certified copy
11 or certified transcript of a birth or a death record to be used for
12 school entrance, employment certificate or for purposes of public relief
13 or government compensation or when required by the veterans adminis-
14 tration to be used in determining the eligibility of any person to
15 participate in the benefits made available by the veterans adminis-
16 tration, provided, however, that if such registrar is a city clerk, town
17 clerk or village clerk, he shall collect such fees for and on behalf of
18 the city, town or village in which he serves, provided, however, that an
19 amount equivalent to the sum of such fees shall be paid at least monthly
20 by such city, town or village to such city clerk, town clerk or village
21 clerk entitled to receive fees as a registrar of vital statistics.
22 (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subdivision, in the follow-
23 ing county jurisdictions the fee shall be set by the county health
24 commissioner: Chemung, Monroe, Onondaga, Tompkins; and in the following
25 local jurisdictions the fee shall be set by the local legislative body:
26 city of Oswego, city of Albany, city of Jamestown. In such jurisdic-
27 tions, the fee may be set up to the amount charged by the commissioner
28 as prescribed in subdivision two of section forty-one hundred seventy-
29 four of this title.
30 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09547-03-0
