Section 4140. Deaths; registration

1. The death of each person who has died
  in  this  state  shall  be  registered  immediately  and  not later than
  seventy-two hours after death or the finding of a dead  human  body,  by
  filing with the registrar of the district in which the death occurred or
  the  body was found a certificate of such death, which certificate shall
  be upon the form prescribed by the commissioner.
    2. If the certificate of death is properly executed and complete,  the
  registrar of the district in which the death occurred shall then issue a
  burial  or removal permit to the funeral director or undertaker. In case
  the death occurred from a disease which is designated  in  the  sanitary
  code  as  a  communicable  disease,  no  permit for the removal or other
  disposition of the body shall be issued by the registrar,  except  to  a
  funeral   director   or  undertaker  licensed  in  accordance  with  the
  provisions of this chapter, under such conditions as may  be  prescribed
  in the sanitary code.
    3.  The  commissioner  and the department of health of the city of New
  York shall deliver to the state board of elections,  at  least  monthly,
  records  in  a  format  as  mutually determined by both agencies, of the
  names of all persons of voting age  for  whom  death  certificates  were
  issued.  Such records shall be arranged by county of residence and shall
  include the name, residence address and birth date of each such person.