Each application for the delayed registration on an unrecorded birth shall be accompanied by a statement issued either by the local registrar of the community where the birth is believed to have occurred or by the State Department of Health to the effect that a search of the records has been made and that no record bearing the name of the person whose birth is to be recorded was found.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 10 § 36.10