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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:

  Section 1. Section 63 of the civil rights law, as amended  by  chapter
258 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
  S 63. Order. If the court to which the petition is presented is satis-
fied  thereby,  or by the affidavit and certificate presented therewith,
that the petition is true, and that there is no reasonable objection  to
the  change  of name proposed, and if the petition be to change the name
of an infant, that the interests of the  infant  will  be  substantially
promoted  by  the  change, the court shall make an order authorizing the
petitioner to assume the name proposed. The order shall  further  recite
the  date  and place of birth of the applicant and, if the applicant was
born in the state of New York, such order shall set forth the number  of
his  birth  certificate  or  that no birth certificate is available. The
order shall be directed to be entered and the papers  on  which  it  was
granted to be filed prior to the publication hereinafter directed in the
clerk's office of the county in which the petitioner resides if he be an
individual, or in the office of the clerk of the civil court of the city
of  New  York if the order be made by that court.  Such order shall also
direct the publication, at least  once,  within  sixty  days  after  the
making  of  the  order, in a designated newspaper in the county in which
the order is directed to be entered and if the petition  is  made  by  a
person subject to the provisions of subdivision two of section sixty-two
of  this  article,  in a designated newspaper in any county wherein such
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.
                                                           LBD03017-01-3
              

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otherwise  directed  to  be  entered,  of  a notice in substantially the
following form: Notice is hereby given that  an  order  entered  by  the
............  court,............  county,  on  the ...... day of.......,
bearing  Index Number..........., a copy of which may be examined at the
office  of  the   clerk,   located   at   .................,   in   room
number.......,   grants   me   the   right   to   assume   the  name  of
................... [My] THE CITY AND STATE OF MY present  address  [is]
ARE  .........................;  the  [date]  MONTH AND YEAR of my birth
[is]   ARE   ................;   the    place    of    my    birth    is
....................;         my         present         name         is
.................................
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.