City of Glens Falls, NY Registration of Vital Statistics

§ 171-34 Report of marriages.

Whenever a marriage ceremony shall be performed, the person solemnizing the same shall return a certificate thereof, in the form prescribed by the Domestic Relations Law, on or before the 10th day of the month next succeeding the date of the solemnizing of such marriage.

A violation of this section shall be punished as prescribed in § 14 of the Domestic Relations Law.

§ 171-35 Report of births.

A physician or whoever attends professionally at a birth shall make a return thereof as required by law and the regulations of the State Department of Health, and any person having knowledge of the facts required to be stated in said return shall inform said professional attendant thereof. If there is no professional attendant, then one of the parents or the head of the house where the birth occurs shall make out and attest such return, which must be made within 36 hours. The persons mentioned in this section and in § 171-34 shall be entitled to receive, for every complete return of a birth or marriage made according to law, a fee of $0.25, to be allowed upon presentation of their verified accounts, duly certified by the local registering officer. This section also applies to stillbirths.

A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject the offending party to a penalty of $10 for each offense, and such violation shall constitute disorderly conduct and the person violating the same shall be a disorderly person.

§ 171-36 Parents' name cards.

Every physician or midwife attending at the birth of a child shall provide themselves with name cards, as furnished by the Board of Health, and at the time of or before the filing of the certificate of said birth, shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the parents or custodians of such child a name card, which shall be filled in by such parents or custodians with the given name of such child when named and immediately filed in such office where certificates of birth are filed.

§ 171-37 Reports of death by member of family.

Immediately after any death shall occur, the head of the family or some other person present and best acquainted with the record of the deceased shall fill out or cause to be written all that is needed to be inserted in the blank spaces of the first 10 lines of the certificate of death required by the regulations of the State Department of Health and forthwith deliver the same to the medical attendant, or in case there has been no medical attendant, to the City Clerk.

A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject the offending party to a penalty of $25 for each offense, and such violation shall constitute disorderly conduct and the person violating the same shall be a disorderly person.

§ 171-38 Completion of death report by medical attendant.

The medical attendant to whom such a certificate shall be delivered as provided in the last section shall at once complete the same by filling out the blank spaces on and under the line 11 thereof, and subscribing his name thereto, adding his place of residence and file same with City Clerk within 24 hours after death.

§ 171-39 Form of reports; data requirements.

The returns and certificates required by the foregoing sections shall be in the form and contain the information required by law and the regulations of the State Department of Health. Blanks therefor, in the case of births and deaths, shall be kept and furnished by the attending physician and, in case there is no attending phycian, they may be obtained on application to the Clerk of this Board.

§ 171-40 Registering by local officer.

The local registering officer shall, upon receipt of the returns above mentioned, forthwith register the same in the register provided for such purpose, in the manner required by law.