New York Laws
Title 7 - Vital Statistics Records
4172 - Records; Registrar to Transmit Through Health Officers.

§ 4172. Records; registrar to transmit through health officers. 1.
When the commissioner shall have so ordered, each registrar shall
transmit, at such times as the commissioner shall direct, to designated
local health units or officials copies of original birth and death
certificates which have been registered in such primary registration
district, and the statistical abstract of fetal death.

2. Each designated local health unit or official receiving copies of
original certificates shall retain such copies thereof pursuant to
subdivision one of this section as confidential records subject to such
further regulation to assure such confidentiality as may be prescribed
by the commissioner.

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