New York Laws
Title 3 - Registration of Births
4138-E - Adoptee's Right to a Certified Copy of His or Her Birth Certificate.

(b) When it shall be impossible for the commissioner or a local
registrar to provide a copy of an adult adopted person's original long
form birth certificate (as may occur in the case of an adopted person
born outside of, but adopted within, the state and such certificate is
not part of the records of the commissioner or a local registrar), the
true and correct information about the adopted person and the adopted
person's birth parents, including their identifying information, that
would have appeared on such original birth certificate shall be provided
to: (i) the adopted person, if eighteen years of age or more, or (ii) if
the adopted person is deceased, the adopted person's direct line
descendants, or (iii) the lawful representatives of such adopted person,
or lawful representatives of such deceased adopted person's direct line
descendants, as the case may be by any authorized agency as defined in
paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision ten of section three hundred
seventy-one of the social services law. In such case, the agency shall
be held harmless from any liability arising out of the disclosure.
(c) For purposes of this subdivision, the term "commissioner" shall
include the state commissioner of health, the commissioner of health and
mental hygiene of the city of New York and for records of birth prior to
January first, nineteen hundred fourteen, the local registrars of the
cities of Albany, Buffalo and Yonkers.