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Senate Bill S5398

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Limits the scope of information disclosed in a published notice of change of name

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2011-S5398 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5720
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Civil Rights Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง63, Civ Rts L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
S3142, A3549

2011-S5398 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2011-S5398 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S5398 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5398

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 17, 2011
                               ___________

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:

  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
otherwise  directed  to  be  entered,  of  a notice in substantially the
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

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