S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6441 I N S E N A T E January 11, 2010 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the fee charged for the issuance of birth and death records in certain cities THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 4173 of the public health law, as 2 amended by chapter 524 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. The registrar shall be entitled to a fee of ten dollars, except in 5 the [county] COUNTIES of Chemung [and the county of], Monroe [and the 6 county of], Onondaga and [the county of] Tompkins whereby such fee shall 7 be set by the county health commissioner and in the [city] CITIES of 8 Oswego AND UTICA whereby such fee shall be set by the [Oswego] common 9 council OF SUCH CITIES, up to the amount charged by the commissioner as 10 prescribed in subdivision two of section forty-one hundred seventy-four 11 of this title for each certification of birth or death or for each 12 certified copy or certified transcript of any record of a birth or of a 13 death or for a certification that a search discloses no record of a 14 birth or of a death, furnished by him to an applicant, except that no 15 fee shall be charged for a search, certification of birth or death or 16 certified copy or certified transcript of a birth or a death record to 17 be used for school entrance, employment certificate or for purposes of 18 public relief or government compensation or when required by the veter- 19 ans administration to be used in determining the eligibility of any 20 person to participate in the benefits made available by the veterans 21 administration, provided, however, that if such registrar is a city 22 clerk, town clerk or village clerk, he shall collect such fees for and 23 on behalf of the city, town or village in which he serves, provided, 24 however, that an amount equivalent to the sum of such fees shall be paid 25 at least monthly by such city, town or village to such city clerk, town 26 clerk or village clerk entitled to receive fees as a registrar of vital 27 statistics. 28 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15256-01-0