Section 4170. Records; general duties of registrars

Each registrar shall:
    (a)  supply  blank  forms  of  certificates to such persons as require
  them;
    (b) examine each certificate of birth  or  death  when  presented  for
  record  in  order  to  ascertain  whether or not it has been made out in
  accordance with the provisions of this article and the  instructions  of
  the commissioner;
    (c)  number  consecutively the certificates of birth and death, in two
  separate series, beginning with the number one for the first  birth  and
  the  first  death, in each calendar year, and sign his name as registrar
  in attest of the date of filing in his office;
    (d) make a  complete  and  accurate  copy  of  each  birth  and  death
  certificate   registered  by  him  in  such  form  as  approved  by  the
  commissioner;
    (e) file the permit for each burial, or cremation or other disposition
  of bodies of deceased persons in his district as the  local  record,  in
  such  manner  as directed by the commissioner and which shall be subject
  to disposition at such time and in such manner as may be  prescribed  by
  rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner;
    (f)  at  such times as the commissioner shall direct, and as otherwise
  ordered by the commissioner as provided in  section  four  thousand  one
  hundred  seventy-two  of  this  chapter transmit to the commissioner all
  original certificates, including reports of foundlings, as  required  by
  section  three  hundred  ninety-eight  of  the  social services law, and
  orders relating to parentage registered by him;
    (g) maintain a count of reports of fetal death with such reports to be
  destroyed at the end of each month.
    (h) immediately notify the division of criminal  justice  services  in
  the  event  that a copy of a birth certificate or information concerning
  the birth records of any person whose  record  is  flagged  pursuant  to
  paragraph (i) of subdivision two of section four thousand one hundred of
  this  article  is  requested.  In  the  event  that  a copy of the birth
  certificate of a person whose record  is  so  flagged  is  requested  in
  person,   the   registrar's   personnel   accepting  the  request  shall
  immediately notify his or her supervisor who shall notify the local  law
  enforcement   agency  and  department  in  accordance  with  regulations
  promulgated by the department.  The  person  making  the  request  shall
  complete  a  form as prescribed by the commissioner, which shall include
  the name, address, telephone numbers and social security numbers of  the
  person  making  the  request.  A motor vehicle operator's license, or if
  such  license  is  not  available,  such  other  identification  as  the
  commissioner   determines   to  be  satisfactory,  shall  be  presented,
  photocopied and returned to him  or  her.  When  a  copy  of  the  birth
  certificate  of  a  person whose record has been flagged is requested in
  writing, the registrar shall notify the local law enforcement agency and
  the  department  in  accordance  with  regulations  promulgated  by  the
  department.