New York Consolidated Laws, Public Health Law - PBH § 4133. Birth certificate; incomplete; duty of registrar

1. If a certificate of birth is incomplete, the registrar of the district in which the birth occurred and with whom the certificate has been filed shall immediately notify the person who signed the record, and require him to supply the missing items of information if they can be obtained.

2. In any case where the physician or nurse-midwife in attendance upon the birth of a child within this state, or other person reporting a birth of a child within this state as provided by section four thousand one hundred thirty of this chapter, is unable, by diligent inquiry, to obtain any item or items of information required in this article, it shall then be the duty of the registrar to secure from the person so reporting, or from any other person having the required knowledge, such information as will enable the registrar to prepare the certificate of birth herein required.

3. It shall be the duty of the person reporting such birth or who is interrogated in relation thereto to answer correctly and to the best of his knowledge all questions put to him by the registrar which may be calculated to elicit any information needed to make a complete record of the birth as contemplated by this article, and it shall be the duty of the informant as to any statement made in accordance herewith to verify such statement by his signature, when requested so to do by the registrar.