| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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| Jan 06, 2016 |
referred to health |
| Feb 09, 2015 |
referred to health |
Senate Bill S3421
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
Actions
2015-S3421 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-S3421 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S3421
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to
the fee for issuance of birth and death records in the city of
Jamestown
PURPOSE: To authorize the Jamestown City Council to establish the fee
charged for the issuance of birth and death certificates as well as
ancillary services including priority handling, internet and telephone
orders to those individuals who were born or die within the City of
Jamestown
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Amends section 4173 of the Public Health Law
to provide that the City of Jamestown may increase the fee charged for
certified copies of birth and death certificates.
JUSTIFICATION: This bill has been introduced at the request of the
City of Jamestown in Resolution Number 201402Al2. The Public Health
Law authorizes localities to charge a $10 fee for the issuance of
birth and death records This fee has not been adjusted since 1991. In
recent years, laws have been enacted to allow Monroe County, Onondaga
County, Chemung County, Tompkins County, and the City of Oswego to
charge up to $30 dollars for these services, which is the amount
received by the New York State Health Department.
This bill would authorize the Jamestown City Council to increase the
2015-S3421 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3421
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 9, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- 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 for issu-
ance of birth and death records in the city of Jamestown
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 4173 of the public health law, as
amended by chapter 524 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as
follows:
3. [The] (A) EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS
SUBDIVISION, THE registrar shall be entitled to a fee of ten dollars[,
except in the county of Chemung and the county of Monroe and the county
of Onondaga and the county of Tompkins whereby such fee shall be set by
the county health commissioner and in the city of Oswego whereby such
fee shall be set by the Oswego common council, up to the amount charged
by the commissioner as prescribed in subdivision two of section forty-
one hundred seventy-four of this title] for each certification of birth
or death or for each certified copy or certified transcript of any
record of a birth or of a death or for a certification that a search
discloses no record of a birth or of a death, furnished by him OR HER to
an applicant, except that no fee shall be charged for a search, certif-
ication of birth or death or certified copy or certified transcript of a
birth or a death record to be used for school entrance, employment
certificate or for purposes of public relief or government compensation
or when required by the veterans administration to be used in determin-
ing the eligibility of any person to participate in the benefits made
available by the veterans administration, provided, however, that if
such registrar is a city clerk, town clerk or village clerk, he OR SHE
shall collect such fees for and on behalf of the city, town or village
in which he OR SHE serves, provided, however, that an amount equivalent
to the sum of such fees shall be paid at least monthly by such city,
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08974-01-5
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