N.Y. PBH Law § 4133

§ 4133. Birth certificate; incomplete; duty of registrar. 1. If a\ncertificate of birth is incomplete, the registrar of the district in\nwhich the birth occurred and with whom the certificate has been filed\nshall immediately notify the person who signed the record, and require\nhim to supply the missing items of information if they can be obtained.\n 2. In any case where the physician or nurse-midwife in attendance upon\nthe birth of a child within this state, or other person reporting a\nbirth of a child within this state as provided by section four thousand\none hundred thirty of this chapter, is unable, by diligent inquiry, to\nobtain any item or items of information required in this article, it\nshall then be the duty of the registrar to secure from the person so\nreporting, or from any other person having the required knowledge, such\ninformation as will enable the registrar to prepare the certificate of\nbirth herein required.\n 3. It shall be the duty of the person reporting such birth or who is\ninterrogated in relation thereto to answer correctly and to the best of\nhis knowledge all questions put to him by the registrar which may be\ncalculated to elicit any information needed to make a complete record of\nthe birth as contemplated by this article, and it shall be the duty of\nthe informant as to any statement made in accordance herewith to verify\nsuch statement by his signature, when requested so to do by the\nregistrar.\n