(b) When it shall be impossible for the commissioner or a local registrar to provide a copy of an adult adopted person's original long form birth certificate (as may occur in the case of an adopted person born outside of, but adopted within, the state and such certificate is not part of the records of the commissioner or a local registrar), the true and correct information about the adopted person and the adopted person's birth parents, including their identifying information, that would have appeared on such original birth certificate shall be provided to: (i) the adopted person, if eighteen years of age or more, or (ii) if the adopted person is deceased, the adopted person's direct line descendants, or (iii) the lawful representatives of such adopted person, or lawful representatives of such deceased adopted person's direct line descendants, as the case may be by any authorized agency as defined in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision ten of section three hundred seventy-one of the social services law. In such case, the agency shall be held harmless from any liability arising out of the disclosure.

(c) For purposes of this subdivision, the term "commissioner" shall include the state commissioner of health, the commissioner of health and mental hygiene of the city of New York and for records of birth prior to January first, nineteen hundred fourteen, the local registrars of the cities of Albany, Buffalo and Yonkers. * NB Effective January 15, 2020