4160 – Fetal Deaths; Registration.
§ 4160. Fetal deaths; registration. 1. Fetal death is defined as death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception; the death is indicated by the fact that after such separation, the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life such as beating of the […]
4160-A – Certificate of Still Birth.
§ 4160-a. Certificate of still birth. 1. The department, or in the city of New York, the board of health, shall establish a certificate of still birth. The registrar with whom a fetal death certificate is filed shall issue a certificate of still birth to the parent or parents named on a fetal death certificate […]
4161 – Fetal Death Certificates; Form and Content; Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Midwives, and Hospital Administrators.
§ 4161. Fetal death certificates; form and content; physicians, nurse practitioners, midwives, and hospital administrators. 1. The certificate of fetal death and the report of fetal death shall contain such information and be in such form as the commissioner may prescribe; provided however that commencing on or after the implementation date under section forty-one hundred […]
4162 – Fetal Deaths; Burial and Removal; Permits.
§ 4162. Fetal deaths; burial and removal; permits. 1. A permit shall be required for the removal, transportation, burial or other disposition of remains resulting from a fetal death, other than fetal tissue, hydatidiform mole or other evidence of pregnancy recovered by curettage or operative procedures or other products of conception of under twenty weeks […]
4163 – Penalties.
§ 4163. Penalties. Any person who shall release information which might disclose the identity of the woman in connection with a certificate of fetal death or report of fetal death in violation of the provisions of this title shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed five thousand dollars for each such release. […]
4165 – Persons in Institutions; Registration.
§ 4165. Persons in institutions; registration. 1. Directors, superintendents, managers or other persons in charge of hospitals, homes for indigents, lying-in or other institutions, public or private, to which persons resort for treatment of diseases or confinement, or to which persons are committed by process of law, shall make, at the time of their admittance, […]
4170 – Records; General Duties of Registrars.
§ 4170. Records; general duties of registrars. Each registrar shall: (a) supply blank forms of certificates to such persons as require them; (b) examine each certificate of birth or death when presented for record in order to ascertain whether or not it has been made out in accordance with the provisions of this article and […]
4141 – Death Certificate; Form and Content.
§ 4141. Death certificate; form and content. 1. The certificate of death shall contain such information, including but not limited to the decedent’s social security number, and shall be in such form as the commissioner may prescribe. 2. The personal particulars called for shall be furnished by a competent person acquainted with the facts. 3. […]
4141-A – Death Certificate; Duties of Hospital Administrator.
§ 4141-a. Death certificate; duties of hospital administrator. When a death occurs in a hospital, except in those cases where certificates are issued by coroners or medical examiners, the person in charge of such hospital or his or her designated representative shall promptly present the certificate to the physician or nurse practitioner in attendance, or […]
4142 – Death Certificate; Duties of Funeral Director.
§ 4142. Death certificate; duties of funeral director. In each case the funeral director, undertaker or person having charge of the body of a deceased person, shall: (a) obtain the personal and statistical particulars required for the certificate of death from a competent person acquainted with the facts and qualified to supply them and enter […]