New York Court Acts|SECTION 1113

                                                

§ 1113. Reports of deaths and burials

1.  Every person keeping a hotel, boarding or rooming house in any of
the counties to which this article applies shall report in writing to
the public administrator of his county information concerning every
person not a member of his family who shall die in his hotel or house
within 12 hours after such death.

2.  The chief medical examiner or such similar public officer of each
county to which this article applies within 12 hours after an inquest
shall report in writing to the public administrator of his county, such
information regarding the decedent which he may have.

3.  Every undertaker shall file a report in writing with the public
administrator of his county within 12 hours after receiving an order for
the burial by him of any decedent having no known distributees or having
been survived only by cousins or relatives by marriage, such information
regarding the decedent which he may have.