§ 4102 — Vital statistics; violations; penalties

§ 4102. Vital statistics; violations; penalties. 1. Any person shall\nbe deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall for\nthe first offense be fined not less than five dollars nor more than\nfifty dollars and for each subsequent offense not less than ten dollars\nor more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not\nmore than sixty days, or be both fined and imprisoned in the discretion\nof the court, who for himself or as an officer, agent, or employee of\nany other person, or of any corporation or partnership, shall:\n (a) refuse or fail to furnish correctly any information in his\npossession, or shall furnish false information affecting any certificate\nor record, required by this article; or,\n (b) wilfully alter, otherwise than is provided by this article, or\nshall falsify any certificate of birth or death, or any record\nestablished by this article; or,\n (c) being required by this article to fill out a certificate of death\nand file the same with the local registrar, or deliver it, upon request,\nto any person charged with the duty of filing the same, shall fail,\nneglect or refuse to perform such duty in the manner required by this\narticle; or,\n (d) inter, cremate, or otherwise finally dispose of the dead body of a\nhuman being, or permit the same to be done, or shall remove said body\nfrom the primary registration district in which the death occurred or\nthe body was found, without the authority of a burial or removal permit\nissued by the local registrar of the district in which the death\noccurred, or in which the body was found, except as provided in section\nfour thousand one hundred forty-four of this article; or,\n (e) being a registrar, deputy registrar, or subregistrar, shall fail,\nneglect or refuse to perform his duty as required by this article and by\nthe instructions and directions of the commissioner thereunder.\n 2. Whenever any physician, nurse-midwife, or other person shall fail\nor neglect properly to record and file a certificate of birth as\nrequired by this article such person shall be liable to a penalty of not\nless than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for the first and\nsecond offenses, which penalty may be recovered by an action brought by\nthe commissioner in any court of competent jurisdiction, and for every\nsubsequent offense, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,\npunishable by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred\ndollars, or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or both.\n