New York Laws
Title 4 - Registration of Deaths: Burial Permits
4141 - Death Certificate; Form and Content.

(b) Indefinite terms, denoting only symptoms of disease or conditions
resulting from disease, shall not be held sufficient.
(c) Any certificate stating the cause of death in terms which the
commissioner declares indefinite shall be returned to the physician,
nurse practitioner, or person making the medical certificate for
correction and more definite statement.
(d) Where a death is caused by an opioid overdose, such information
shall be indicated on the certificate, including, if known to the person
completing the death certificate, the specific opioid that caused the
death of the decedent, along with any other related information as the
commissioner may require.

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