GLOVERSVILLE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE

The City Clerk's office is a licensing bureau. Applications may be processed in other parts of the building, but virtually all licenses are issued by the City Clerk's office.

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AGRICULTURE & MARKETS: The City Clerk's Office acts as a licensing agent for the New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets in the issuance of dog licenses. Dogs must be licensed at the age of 6-months. Proof of rabies vaccination must be shown. The fees are $7.50 for spayed or neutered dogs and $15.50 for non-spayed or non-neutered dogs.

BUILDINGS: The City Clerk's Office acts as a licensing agent for the city's Division of Buildings, issuing building, equipment, zoning and demolition permits.

CONSERVATION LICENSES: The City Clerk's Office acts as a licensing agent for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, issuing: sportsman, big game, hunting, fishing, bow, muzzle, turkey, trapping and junior hunting licenses, among others.

FIRE PREVENTION BUREAU PERMITS: The City Clerk's Office acts as a licensing agent for the city's Fire Prevention Bureau, issuing permits for the installation of natural gas, oil, LPG, pellet and wood stove heating equipment as well as for the operation of multiple-unit dwellings, places of assembly, hazardous materials storage and storage tank installation.

GENEALOGICAL SEARCH: Working on your family history? The City Clerk's office can help with vital statistics, such as birth, death and marriage records. Eligibility must be shown.

RACING & WAGERING: The City Clerk's Office acts as an agent for the New York State Racing & Wagering Board, issuing licenses for bingo, bell jar and games of chance operations.

SANITATION: Need to get rid of items too large for your garbage men? The City Clerk's Office acts as an agent for the City's Department of Public Works, too.

On the third Wednesday of every month, the city picks-up furniture, scrap metal, boxed household items and household items too large to box such as mattresses, box springs and television sets - all those sorts of items you can fit into an area 5-feet high, 5-feet wide and 10-feet long for a fee of $100.00.

Likewise, that same Wednesday, DPW picks-up appliances, such as washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, dishwashers and water heaters for a fee of $50 apiece. Pick-ups can be arranged at the City Clerk's Office.

TAXICABS: Taxicabs are registered and inspected through the City Clerk's office as are taxicab business licenses.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT: The City's Health Department shares office space with the City Clerk. The Health Department records and issues birth and death certificates as well as executes voluntary paternities. A birth or death certificate may be requested by mail. A birth record will only be released to the individual (over the age of 18) on record or a parent. Death certificates will only be released to the spouse or living children (an attorney can always request any record on file). The cost for each is $10.00 payable to the Gloversville Health Department.

To obtain these by mail you will need to supply the following the records:

1. A photocopy of a picture I.D.

2. A check or money order payable to the Gloversville Health Department

3. A self-addressed stamped envelope

4. Your name given at birth

All of this can be sent to

Gloversville Health Department
3 Frontage Road
Gloversville, NY 12078

(518) 773-4545

OBTAINING YOUR MARRIAGE LICENSE IS FAST AND EASY THROUGH THE GLOVERSVILLE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE

The bride and groom have to come to the Clerk's office between the hours of 8:00 AM and 3:00 PM Monday through Friday. Our office is located at 3 Frontage Road.

You must show identification, such as your driver's license, and then we'll ask you to fill out a 20-question application form.

We'll take the information from that form and type-up your license on the spot. It takes about 15-minutes and costs $40.

You can use the license to get married 24-hours after we give it to you or up to 60 days thereafter. There is no blood test.

If you've been married before, you'll have to show a copy of the final divorce decree and that has been stamped by the clerk of the county where it was filed.

Typically, the date stamp would say FILED AND ENTERED, show the date it was filed and, usually, a facsimile of the County Clerk's signature.

If your copy doesn't have that, you may have to go to, write to or otherwise obtain a certified copy from the County Clerk where the decree had been filed and entered.

The final step in any divorce is filing the decree with the County Clerk..

If the previous marriage ended by death of your spouse, you will have to show a certified copy of the death certificate.

We have a list of public officials who can perform marriage ceremonies.


A marriage license is good statewide. The only consideration as to where you buy one is that wherever you buy it, that's where it will forever be filed should you need a copy in years to come for travel, retirement or death benefits.

According to the New York State Department of Health, New York's law does not authorize the issuance of marriage licenses to persons of the same sex and New York courts have required the parties to a marriage to be of opposite sexes.

The State Department of Health has further stated that any municipal clerk who issues a marriage license outside the aforementioned guidelines would be in violation of state law and subject to penalties.