Bill Text: NY A03549 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Limits the scope of information disclosed in a published notice of change of name.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-2)
Status: (Passed) 2014-08-11 - signed chap.253 [A03549 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A03549-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3549
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 28, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. WEINSTEIN, JAFFEE, GABRYSZAK, GALEF, CASTRO --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, COOK, CROUCH, GOTTFRIED,
MARKEY, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judici-
ary
AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to limiting the scope
of information disclosed in a published notice of change of name
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 63 of the civil rights law, as amended by chapter
2 258 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
3 S 63. Order. If the court to which the petition is presented is satis-
4 fied thereby, or by the affidavit and certificate presented therewith,
5 that the petition is true, and that there is no reasonable objection to
6 the change of name proposed, and if the petition be to change the name
7 of an infant, that the interests of the infant will be substantially
8 promoted by the change, the court shall make an order authorizing the
9 petitioner to assume the name proposed. The order shall further recite
10 the date and place of birth of the applicant and, if the applicant was
11 born in the state of New York, such order shall set forth the number of
12 his birth certificate or that no birth certificate is available. The
13 order shall be directed to be entered and the papers on which it was
14 granted to be filed prior to the publication hereinafter directed in the
15 clerk's office of the county in which the petitioner resides if he be an
16 individual, or in the office of the clerk of the civil court of the city
17 of New York if the order be made by that court. Such order shall also
18 direct the publication, at least once, within sixty days after the
19 making of the order, in a designated newspaper in the county in which
20 the order is directed to be entered and if the petition is made by a
21 person subject to the provisions of subdivision two of section sixty-two
22 of this article, in a designated newspaper in any county wherein such
23 person was convicted if different from the county in which the order is
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 otherwise directed to be entered, of a notice in substantially the
2 following form: Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the
3 ............ court,............ county, on the ...... day of.......,
4 bearing Index Number..........., a copy of which may be examined at the
5 office of the clerk, located at ................., in room
6 number......., grants me the right to assume the name of
7 ................... [My] THE CITY AND STATE OF MY present address [is]
8 ARE .........................; the [date] MONTH AND YEAR of my birth
9 [is] ARE ................; the place of my birth is
10 ....................; my present name is
11 .................................
12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
