Section 4102. Vital statistics; violations; penalties

1. Any person shall
  be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall for
  the first offense be fined not less than  five  dollars  nor  more  than
  fifty  dollars and for each subsequent offense not less than ten dollars
  or more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not
  more than sixty days, or be both fined and imprisoned in the  discretion
  of  the  court,  who for himself or as an officer, agent, or employee of
  any other person, or of any corporation or partnership, shall:
    (a) refuse or  fail  to  furnish  correctly  any  information  in  his
  possession, or shall furnish false information affecting any certificate
  or record, required by this article; or,
    (b)  wilfully  alter,  otherwise  than is provided by this article, or
  shall  falsify  any  certificate  of  birth  or  death,  or  any  record
  established by this article; or,
    (c)  being required by this article to fill out a certificate of death
  and file the same with the local registrar, or deliver it, upon request,
  to any person charged with the duty of  filing  the  same,  shall  fail,
  neglect  or  refuse  to perform such duty in the manner required by this
  article; or,
    (d) inter, cremate, or otherwise finally dispose of the dead body of a
  human being, or permit the same to be done, or shall  remove  said  body
  from  the  primary  registration district in which the death occurred or
  the body was found, without the authority of a burial or removal  permit
  issued  by  the  local  registrar  of  the  district  in which the death
  occurred, or in which the body was found, except as provided in  section
  four thousand one hundred forty-four of this article; or,
    (e)  being a registrar, deputy registrar, or subregistrar, shall fail,
  neglect or refuse to perform his duty as required by this article and by
  the instructions and directions of the commissioner thereunder.
    2. Whenever any physician, nurse-midwife, or other person  shall  fail
  or  neglect  properly  to  record  and  file  a  certificate of birth as
  required by this article such person shall be liable to a penalty of not
  less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars  for  the  first  and
  second  offenses, which penalty may be recovered by an action brought by
  the commissioner in any court of competent jurisdiction, and  for  every
  subsequent  offense,  such  person  shall  be  guilty  of a misdemeanor,
  punishable by a fine of not less than ten  nor  more  than  one  hundred
  dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or both.