Section 4176. Records; correction of defective registration

1. If defects
  be found in the registration under the supervision  of  a  registrar  of
  vital statistics, the commissioner shall notify such registrar that such
  defects must be corrected within ten days of the date of the notice.
    2.  If  such  defects are not so corrected the commissioner shall take
  control of such registration and of the records thereof, and enforce the
  rules  and  regulations  in  regard  thereto  and  secure   a   complete
  registration in such district, and such control shall continue until the
  registrar  of  vital  statistics  shall satisfy the commissioner that he
  will make such record and registry complete as required by  law  and  in
  the sanitary code.
    3.  The  expenses  incurred  by  the  commissioner  or  his authorized
  representative while in control of such registration shall be  a  charge
  upon the city, town or village comprising the registration district.
    4.  No  certificate  of  birth  or  death,  after  its  acceptance for
  registration by the registrar, and no new certificate  or  other  record
  made  in  pursuance  of this article, shall be altered or changed in any
  respect except to correct errors made in completing the  certificate  by
  the  person  responsible  for  preparing the certificate or as otherwise
  provided in this article. The commissioner shall provide the application
  form for a correction of a record which must be properly  dated,  signed
  and  witnessed, or subscribed and affirmed by the persons making them as
  true under the penalties  of  perjury,  together  with  such  supporting
  proofs as may be prescribed by the commissioner.