N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 4141-a

§ 4141-a. Death certificate; duties of hospital administrator. When a\ndeath occurs in a hospital, except in those cases where certificates are\nissued by coroners or medical examiners, the person in charge of such\nhospital or his or her designated representative shall promptly present\nthe certificate to the physician or nurse practitioner in attendance, or\na physician or nurse practitioner acting in his or her behalf, who shall\npromptly certify to the facts of death, provide the medical information\nrequired by the certificate, sign the medical certificate of death, and\nthereupon return such certificate to such person, so that the\nseventy-two hour registration time limit prescribed in section four\nthousand one hundred forty of this title can be met; provided, however\nthat commencing on or after the implementation date under section\nforty-one hundred forty-eight of this title, information and signatures\nrequired by this section shall be obtained and made in accordance with\nsection forty-one hundred forty-eight of this title.\n