New York Laws
Title 2 - Registration Districts: Registrars, Physicians, Midwives and Funeral Directors
4120 - Vital Statistics; Registration Districts; Establishment.

(a) with the approval of the legislative body of the county in which
each affected district is located, combine two or more primary
registration districts into a single primary registration district; or,
(b) divide one primary registration district into two or more primary
registration districts; or,
(c) establish any state hospital, charitable or penal institution as a
primary registration district.
3. Whenever a county or part-county primary registration district has
been established or two or more primary registration districts have been
combined, the records of birth and death and all papers pertaining to
such records in the possession of the original primary registration
district or districts shall be transferred as directed by the
commissioner.

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