Bill Text: NY S05398 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits the scope of information disclosed in a published notice of change of name.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO CODES [S05398 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S05398-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5398
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     May 17, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
       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
   24  otherwise  directed  to  be  entered,  of  a notice in substantially the
   25  following form: Notice is hereby given that  an  order  entered  by  the
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08453-01-1
       S. 5398                             2
    1  ............  court,............  county,  on  the ...... day of.......,
    2  bearing Index Number..........., a copy of which may be examined at  the
    3  office   of   the   clerk,   located   at   .................,  in  room
    4  number.......,   grants   me   the   right   to   assume   the  name  of
    5  ................... [My] THE CITY AND STATE OF MY present  address  [is]
    6  ARE  .........................;  the  [date]  MONTH AND YEAR of my birth
    7  [is]   ARE   ................;   the    place    of    my    birth    is
    8  ....................;         my         present         name         is
    9  .................................
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.