N.Y. PBH Law § 4142

§ 4142. Death certificate; duties of funeral director. In each case\nthe funeral director, undertaker or person having charge of the body of\na deceased person, shall:\n (a) obtain the personal and statistical particulars required for the\ncertificate of death from a competent person acquainted with the facts\nand qualified to supply them and enter them on the certificate together\nwith the name and address of his informant;\n (b) present the certificate promptly to the attending physician or\nnurse practitioner, who shall forthwith certify to the facts of death,\nprovide the medical information required by the certificate and sign the\nmedical certificate of death, or to the coroner or medical examiner in\nthose cases where so required by this article or, when a death occurs in\na hospital, except in those cases where certificates are issued by\ncoroners or medical examiners, to the person in charge of such hospital\nor his or her designated representative, who shall obtain the medical\ncertificate of death as prescribed in section four thousand one hundred\nforty-one-a of this title;\n (c) state the facts required on the certificate of death relative to\nthe date and place of burial, cremation or removal, over his signature\nand with his address; and,\n (d) prior to the disposition of the remains, file the certificate of\ndeath with the registrar of the district in which the death occurred as\nprovided in section four thousand one hundred forty of this article.\n (e) notwithstanding any contrary provisions of law as may be set forth\nin this section, commencing on or after the implementation date under\nsection forty-one hundred forty-eight of this title, information and\nsignatures required by this subdivision shall be obtained and made in\naccordance with section forty-one hundred forty-eight of this title.\n