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2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2101 - Communicable Diseases; Physicians and Institutions; Duty to Report.

§  2101.  Communicable  diseases; physicians and institutions; duty to
  report.  1. Every physician shall immediately give notice of every  case
  of communicable disease required by the department to be reported to it,
  to  the  health  officer of the local health district where such disease
  occurs.
2. If there be no physician in attendance on any case of  communicable
  disease,  it shall be the duty of the superintendent or other officer of
  an institution, householder, hotel  or  lodging  housekeeper,  or  other
  person  where  such  case  occurs,  to  give  the notice of such case of
  communicable disease required by the department to be reported to it, to
  the health officer of the  local  health  district  where  such  disease
  occurs.
3.   The  sanitary  code  may  provide  that  when  cases  of  certain
  communicable diseases occur (a) in districts of less than fifty thousand
  population not having a  full-time  health  officer,  or  (b)  in  state
  institutions  or  (c) in tuberculosis hospitals or sanitoria, such cases
  shall be reported directly to the  department  or  its  district  health
  officer.
4.  Such  notice shall contain such information concerning the case as
  shall be required by the sanitary code.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2102 - Communicable Diseases; Laboratory Reports and Records.

§  2102.  Communicable  diseases;  laboratory reports and records.  1.
  Whenever any laboratory examination discloses evidence  of  communicable
  disease,  the  results  of  such  examination together with all required
  pertinent facts, shall be immediately reported by the person  in  charge
  of  the laboratory or the person making such examination to the local or
  state health official to whom the attending  physician  is  required  to
  report such case.
2.  The  person in charge of such laboratory or the person making such
  examination shall keep for a period of  time  to  be  specified  by  the
  commissioner,  a  record  of  all  the  facts  in  connection  with such
  examination, including the identity of the person from whom the specimen
  is taken and the name of the physician, if any, sending such specimen.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2103 - Communicable Diseases; Local Health Officers; Duty to Report.

§  2103. Communicable diseases; local health officers; duty to report.
  Every local health officer shall report promptly to the department,  all
  cases of such communicable diseases as may be required by the department
  to  be  reported  to  it.  In  lieu  of the original reports, the health
  officer may submit summary reports when authorized by the department.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2104 - Communicable Diseases; Municipalities Within a County or Part-County Health District; Duty to Report.

§  2104.  Communicable  diseases;  municipalities  within  a county or
  part-county health district; duty to report.  1. The health  officer  of
  each  city,  village,  town and consolidated health district included as
  part of any county or part-county health district, shall transmit  daily
  all  original reports of communicable disease cases to the county health
  commissioner.
2. The county health commissioner shall transmit to the department the
  original reports of communicable disease cases within twenty-four  hours
  after he receives them.
3.  In  lieu thereof, he may submit summary reports when authorized by
  the department.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2105 - Communicable Diseases; State Institutions; Duty to Report; Duty of Commissioner.

§  2105.  Communicable  diseases;  state institutions; duty to report;
  duty of commissioner.  1. It shall be the duty of the director or person
  in charge of each state institution to report immediately an outbreak of
  a communicable disease in such institution to the  commissioner  and  as
  may otherwise be provided in the sanitary code.
2.  Upon  receipt of a report from a state institution of the outbreak
  of a communicable disease in said institution,  the  commissioner  shall
  advise  the  director  or  person in charge of the institution as to the
  best means to control said disease effectually.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2106 - Communicable Diseases; Almshouses; Removal of Inmates.

§  2106.  Communicable diseases; almshouses; removal of inmates.  If a
  communicable disease exists in any home operated  by  a  public  welfare
  district  or  in  the  vicinity thereof, and the physician thereof shall
  certify that such disease is  likely  to  endanger  the  health  of  the
  inmates  thereof,  the  public  welfare commissioner of the district may
  cause such inmates or any of them to be removed to such  other  suitable
  place  in the county as the local board of health of the health district
  where the almshouse is situated may designate, there  to  be  maintained
  and  provided  for  at  the  expense  of  the county, with all necessary
  medical care and attendance until they shall be safely returned to  such
  home or otherwise discharged.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2108 - Communicable Diseases; Epidemic Among Indians; State Charges.

§  2108. Communicable diseases; epidemic among Indians; state charges.
  1. Whenever an epidemic of a communicable disease  shall  prevail  among
  the  Indians  of  any  nation,  tribe  or band in this state, the public
  welfare official of the welfare district in  which  the  reservation  of
  such  nation,  tribe  or  band,  is  wholly  or  partly situated, may in
  accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the commissioner, cause
  needed medical attendance, provisions and maintenance to be furnished to
  any indigent Indian residing in the town, who,  or  a  member  of  whose
  family,  is  afflicted  with  such  disease,  while  such  disease shall
  continue.  The cost thereof after being audited as herein provided shall
  be a state charge.
2. A verified statement of any expenses incurred  under  this  section
  shall be transmitted by the public welfare official to the commissioner.
  The  commissioner  shall  examine into the matter, and if satisfied that
  such expenses were properly and necessarily incurred in accordance  with
  his  rules  and  regulations,  he shall approve the same; and the amount
  thereof, after audit by the comptroller, shall be paid  from  the  state
  treasury  on  the  warrant  of  the  comptroller  to such public welfare
  official.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2109 - Communicable Diseases; Municipal Hospitals For; Establishment, Inspection and Regulation.

§ 2109. Communicable diseases; municipal hospitals for; establishment,
  inspection  and regulation.  1. The commissioner shall from time to time
  submit to the authorities of the several municipalities or  counties  of
  the  state  such  recommendations as he may consider necessary as to the
  establishment of hospitals for  communicable  diseases,  indicating  the
  diseases  for  which  in  his  judgment provision should be made and the
  extent of such provision.
2. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to inspect  from  time  to
  time  all  hospitals  for  communicable  diseases  maintained  under the
  jurisdiction of any municipal or county authority and to  report  as  to
  the  condition  and  needs  of  such hospitals to the authorities of the
  municipality or county, and to include an abstract of  such  reports  in
  his annual report.
3.  The  public  health  council  may  from  time  to  time  establish
  regulations in the sanitary code for the maintenance  of  hospitals  for
  communicable diseases.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2112 - Immunizations; Prohibition on the Use of Mercury.

§ 2112. Immunizations; prohibition on the use of mercury. 1. Except as
  otherwise  provided  in  subdivisions  two, three, four and five of this
  section, no person under three years of age and no woman who  knows  she
  is  pregnant  shall be vaccinated with a vaccine that contains more than
  0.5 micrograms of mercury per 0.5 milliliter dose.
2. Persons under  three  years  of  age  may  be  vaccinated  with  an
  influenza  vaccine  that  contains  not  more  than  0.625 micrograms of
  mercury per 0.25 milliliter dose.
3. Women who  know  they  are  pregnant  may  be  vaccinated  with  an
  influenza vaccine that contains not more than 1.25 micrograms of mercury
  per  0.50  milliliter dose; provided, however, that no provision of this
  section shall apply to the administration of influenza vaccine to  women
  who  know  they  are  pregnant until and unless the commissioner makes a
  yearly determination that there  is  an  adequate  supply  of  influenza
  vaccine  that contains not more than 1.25 micrograms of mercury per 0.50
  milliliter dose to meet anticipated demand.
4. The commissioner may authorize the use of vaccines containing  more
  than  the mercury levels described in subdivisions one, two and three of
  this section when he or she determines it is  necessary  to  prevent  or
  respond  to an outbreak of disease and there are insufficient amounts of
  vaccine containing the mercury levels described in subdivision one,  two
  or  three  of this section to adequately protect the public health. Such
  authorization shall continue until the commissioner determines that  the
  threat of an outbreak or the outbreak has ended.
5.  The  commissioner  may  authorize  the  use  of  specific vaccines
  containing more than the mercury levels described in  subdivisions  one,
  two  and  three of this section when he or she determines that a vaccine
  with lower mercury levels is not  available  for  distribution  in  this
  state,  and  the  parent  of  a person under three years of age provides
  informed consent to administration of such vaccine to his or  her  child
  or  the woman who knows she is pregnant provides informed consent to the
  administration of such vaccine.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 2 - Control of Patients › 2120 - Communicable Diseases; Control of Dangerous and Careless Patients; Commitment.

§  2120.  Communicable  diseases;  control  of  dangerous and careless
  patients; commitment.  1. Whenever a complaint is made by a physician to
  a health officer that  any  person  is  afflicted  with  a  communicable
  disease  or  is  a carrier of typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria or
  other communicable disease and is unable or unwilling to conduct himself
  and to live in such a manner as not to expose members of his  family  or
  household  or  other persons with whom he may be associated to danger of
  infection,  the  health  officer   shall   forthwith   investigate   the
  circumstances alleged.
2.  If  the  health officer finds after investigation that a person so
  afflicted is a menace to others, he shall  make  and  file  a  complaint
  against  such  person  with a magistrate, and on such complaint the said
  person shall be brought before such magistrate.
3. The magistrate after due notice and a hearing,  if  satisfied  that
  the  complaint  of  the  health  officer  is  well  founded and that the
  afflicted person is a source of danger to others, may  commit  the  said
  person  to  any  hospital  or  institution  established  for the care of
  persons suffering from any such communicable disease  or  maintaining  a
  room, ward or wards for such persons.
4.  In making such commitment the magistrate shall make such order for
  payment for the care and maintenance of the person committed as  he  may
  deem proper.
5.  A  person  who  is  committed  pursuant  to the provisions of this
  section shall be deemed to be committed until discharged in  the  manner
  authorized  by  section  two  thousand  one hundred twenty-three of this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 2 - Control of Patients › 2121 - Communicable Diseases; Duty of Committed Patients; Discipline.

§ 2121. Communicable diseases; duty of committed patients; discipline.
  1.  Every  person  committed  under the provisions of this article shall
  observe all the rules and regulations of the hospital or institution  to
  which he is committed.
2.  Any  person so committed who neglects or refuses to obey the rules
  and regulations of the institution may by direction of the chief medical
  officer of the institution be placed apart from the other patients.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 2 - Control of Patients › 2122 - Communicable Diseases; Disorderly Committed Patients; Commitment to Penal Institution.

§   2122.   Communicable   diseases;  disorderly  committed  patients;
  commitment to penal institution. 1. Any person who has been committed to
  a hospital or institution pursuant to  the  provisions  of  section  two
  thousand  one  hundred  twenty  of this chapter, who thereafter wilfully
  violates the rules and regulations  of  the  institution  or  repeatedly
  conducts himself in a disorderly manner may be taken before a magistrate
  by the order of the chief medical officer of the institution.
2.  The chief medical officer of the institution may enter a complaint
  against such person for disorderly conduct and the magistrate,  after  a
  hearing  and  upon  sufficient  evidence of such disorderly conduct, may
  commit such person for  a  period  not  to  exceed  six  months  to  any
  institution  to  which persons convicted of disorderly conduct, vagrancy
  or similar violations are committed.
3. The  authorities  of  the  institution  to  which  such  person  is
  committed  by  the magistrate pursuant to the provisions of this section
  shall keep such person separate and apart from  the  other  incarcerated
  individuals.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 2 - Control of Patients › 2123 - Communicable Diseases; Discharge of Committed Patient; Duty to Report.

§ 2123. Communicable diseases; discharge of committed patient; duty to
  report.    1.  The  chief  medical  officer  of  the  hospital  or other
  institution to which any person who has been committed pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  section  two thousand one hundred twenty of this chapter
  upon signing and placing among the permanent records of such hospital or
  institution a statement to the effect that such person  has  obeyed  the
  rules  and  regulations of such hospital or institution, and that in his
  judgment such person may be discharged without danger to the  health  or
  life of others, or for any other reason stated in full which he may deem
  adequate and sufficient, may discharge the person so committed.
2. The chief medical officer shall report each such discharge together
  with  a  full  statement  of  the reasons therefor at once to the health
  officer of the local health district from which the patient came and  at
  the next meeting of the board of managers or other controlling authority
  of such hospital or institution.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 2 - Control of Patients › 2124 - Communicable Diseases; Appeal by Committed Patient.

§  2124.  Communicable diseases; appeal by committed patient.  Nothing
  contained in this article shall be  construed  to  prohibit  any  person
  committed  to  any institution pursuant to its provisions from appealing
  to any court having jurisdiction, for a review of the evidence on  which
  commitment was made.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 2 - Control of Patients › 2125 - City of New York; Exceptions.

§  2125. City of New York; exceptions.  The provisions of sections two
  thousand one hundred twenty to two thousand one hundred  twenty-four  of
  this chapter, inclusive, shall not apply to the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 3 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus › 2130 - AIDS and HIV Infection; Duty to Report.

§  2130. AIDS and HIV infection; duty to report. 1. Every physician or
  other person authorized by law to  order  diagnostic  tests  or  make  a
  medical  diagnosis,  or  any  laboratory  performing  such  tests  shall
  immediately (a) upon determination that a person is infected with  human
  immunodeficiency  virus  (HIV),  (b)  upon  diagnosis  that  a person is
  afflicted with the disease known as acquired immune deficiency  syndrome
  (AIDS),  (c)  upon diagnosis that a person is afflicted with HIV related
  illness, and (d) upon  periodic  monitoring  of  HIV  infection  by  any
  laboratory tests report such case or data to the commissioner.
2.  The  commissioner shall promptly forward such report to the health
  commissioner  of  the  municipality  where  such  disease,  illness   or
  infection  occurred.    When cases of such disease, illness or infection
  occur in a municipality not having a health commissioner,  such  reports
  shall be forwarded directly to the district health officer.
3.  Such  report shall contain such information concerning the case as
  shall be  required  by  the  commissioner.  Such  report  shall  include
  information  identifying  the protected individual as well as the names,
  if available, of any contacts of the protected individual, as defined in
  subdivision ten of section twenty-seven hundred eighty of this  chapter,
  known  to  the  physician  or  provided to the physician by the infected
  person.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 3 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus › 2131 - Municipal Health Commissioner; Duty to Report.

§ 2131. Municipal health commissioner; duty to report.  If any contact
  resides  in  a county or district other than the one where the protected
  individual is found, the health officer receiving the report shall refer
  the contact report to the health officer in the county or district where
  the contact resides, who shall then make a good faith effort  to  notify
  such  contact  and  otherwise  comply  with  the  provisions  of section
  twenty-one hundred thirty-three of this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 3 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus › 2132 - Reporting of HIV Infection After Death.

§  2132.  Reporting  of  HIV  infection  after  death.  If  a coroner,
  pathologist, medical examiner, or other person qualified to  conduct  an
  examination of a deceased person discovers that at the time of death the
  individual   was  afflicted  with  AIDS,  HIV  related  illness  or  HIV
  infection, he or she shall report the case promptly to the  commissioner
  according  to  the manner provided in this title as if the diagnosis had
  been established prior to death.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 3 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus › 2133 - Contact Tracing of Cases of Aids, HIV Related Illness or HIV Infection.

§  2133.  Contact tracing of cases of AIDS, HIV related illness or HIV
  infection. 1.  Every municipal health commissioner or  the  department's
  district  health officer, upon determination that such reported case or,
  any other known case of HIV infection merits contact tracing in order to
  protect the public health, shall personally or through  their  qualified
  representatives  notify  the known contacts of the protected individual.
  Such contact tracing shall be done consistent with  protocols  developed
  pursuant to section twenty-one hundred thirty-seven of this title.
2.  Such  contact shall also be informed of (a) the nature of HIV, (b)
  the known routes of transmission of the virus, (c) as circumstances  may
  require,  the  risks of prenatal and perinatal transmission, (d) actions
  he or she can take to limit further transmission of the virus, (e) other
  facilities or community based organizations which are accessible to  the
  person  that  provide  counseling,  medical  care and treatment, further
  information or other appropriate services for persons infected with HIV.
3.  In  notifying  any  contact  identified  in  the  course  of   any
  investigation  conducted  pursuant  to  this  section,  the physician or
  public health officer shall not disclose the identity of  the  protected
  individual or the identify of any other contact.
4.  A  physician  or  public health officer making a notification to a
  contact pursuant to this section shall make such notification in  person
  except where circumstances reasonably prevent doing so.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 3 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus › 2134 - Disclosure of Medical Information.

§  2134.  Disclosure  of  medical  information.  Disclosure of medical
  information  obtained  in  accordance  with  this  title,  including   a
  diagnosis  of  HIV  infection,  may  be  made  only to (a) the protected
  individual, (b) the municipal health  commissioner  or  district  health
  officer  if such commissioner or officer is not the examining physician,
  and (c) without specifically revealing the  identity  of  the  protected
  individual,  contacts  as defined pursuant to subdivision ten of section
  twenty-seven hundred eighty of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 3 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus › 2135 - Confidentiality.

§  2135.  Confidentiality.  All  reports or information secured by the
  department, municipal health commissioner  or  district  health  officer
  under  the provisions of this title shall be confidential except: (a) in
  so far as is necessary to carry out the provisions of  this  title;  (b)
  when  used  in  the  aggregate,  without  patient  specific  identifying
  information,  in  programs  approved  by  the   commissioner   for   the
  improvement  of  the  quality  of  medical care provided to persons with
  HIV/AIDS; (c) when used within the state or local health  department  by
  public health disease programs to assess co-morbidity or completeness of
  reporting  and  to  direct program needs, in which case patient specific
  identifying information shall not be  disclosed  outside  the  state  or
  local  health  department;  or  (d)  when  used  for purposes of patient
  linkage and retention in care, patient specific  identified  information
  may be shared between local and state health departments and health care
  providers   currently   treating   the   patient   as  approved  by  the
  commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 3 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus › 2136 - Liability.

§  2136.  Liability. 1. Good faith reporting or disclosure pursuant to
  this title shall not constitute libel or slander or a violation  of  the
  right of privacy or privileged communication.
2.  Any  person  who  in  good faith complies with this title shall be
  immune from civil  and  criminal  liability  for  any  action  taken  in
  compliance with its provisions.
3.  No  criminal  or civil liability shall arise against any protected
  individual solely due to his or her  failure  to  cooperate  in  contact
  tracing conducted pursuant to section twenty-one hundred thirty-three of
  this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 3 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus › 2137 - Domestic Violence Recognition.

§  2137.    Domestic  violence  recognition.  The department shall, in
  consultation with the office for the prevention of domestic violence and
  statewide organizations and community  based  organizations,  develop  a
  protocol  for  the  identification  and screening of victims of domestic
  violence who may either be a protected individual or a contact  as  used
  in this title.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 3 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus › 2138 - Anonymous Testing.

§ 2138.   Anonymous   testing.   Nothing  in  this  article  shall  be
  interpreted to eliminate the anonymous testing option  provided  for  in
  section twenty seven hundred eighty-one of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 4 - Rabies. › 2142 - Rabies; Emergency Provisions.

§  2142.  Rabies;  emergency  provisions.  Whenever  the  commissioner
  confirms an outbreak of the disease rabies in terrestrial animals in any
  county or the vicinity thereof, the commissioner shall declare a  rabies
  alert  for  that  area  and  so  certify  to  the county or local health
  authorities or any local health district contained therein. It shall  be
  the  duty of the health officials to immediately and annually thereafter
  publish a notice of the  existence  of  the  disease,  together  with  a
  summary  of  the  provisions  of  this  title,  in a newspaper generally
  circulated within the county  or  local  health  district,  or  to  post
  notices in several conspicuous places, or both. Such certification shall
  remain  in  force  until such time as the commissioner confirms that the
  outbreak is over.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 4 - Rabies. › 2143 - Rabies; Seizure and Disposal; Reports.

§   2143.   Rabies;   seizure  and  disposal;  reports.  Whenever  the
  commissioner certifies a county to  have  a  rabies  alert  pursuant  to
  section  twenty-one  hundred forty-two of this title, any duly appointed
  dog control officer,  animal  control  officer,  peace  officer,  police
  officer,  or health officer for that area may seize and confine any dog,
  cat or domesticated ferret found at large and may destroy a dog, cat  or
  domesticated ferret found at large that is exhibiting symptoms of rabies
  and  cannot  be  seized  without  placing  any person at serious risk of
  physical injury. Any duly appointed  person  who  seizes,  confines,  or
  destroys  a  dog,  cat  or  domesticated ferret pursuant to this section
  shall immediately report in writing the facts relating  thereto  to  the
  county or local health authority.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 4 - Rabies. › 2144 - Rabies; County Responsibility.

§ 2144. Rabies; county responsibility. Each county health authority is
  required  to  develop  a  rabies  control  protocol  that identifies and
  coordinates  all  activities  within  the   county   to   accomplish   a
  comprehensive  rabies  response.  The county health authority shall have
  responsibility for the implementation of  the  protocol,  including  the
  coordination  of  the response to rabies issues by other local agencies.
  This protocol must be approved by the department and revised and updated
  as directed by the department.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 4 - Rabies. › 2146 - City of New York; Exceptions.

§  2146.  City of New York; exceptions. The provisions of sections two
  thousand one hundred forty through two thousand one  hundred  forty-five
  of this title, inclusive, shall not apply to the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 5 - Typhoid Fever › 2150 - Typhoid Fever; Carriers; Care and Maintenance, in Institutions.

§   2150.   Typhoid   fever;   carriers;   care  and  maintenance,  in
  institutions.  Whenever any person is declared by the commissioner to be
  a carrier of typhoid fever bacilli and whenever, for the  protection  of
  the  public  health,  the  commissioner  certifies  to  the necessity of
  continued isolation; or, whenever, the sanitary code prohibits a carrier
  of typhoid fever bacilli from engaging in  his  usual  occupation,  such
  person   may   be   given  hospital  or  institutional  care  under  the
  surveillance of the local health officer at the expense of the state  if
  the  hospital  or  institution  in  the  judgment of the commissioner is
  properly equipped for the care and maintenance of said person.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 5 - Typhoid Fever › 2151 - Typhoid Fever; Carriers; Care and Maintenance, Privately.

§  2151.  Typhoid  fever;  carriers;  care and maintenance, privately.
  When no hospital or institution is available for the care of  a  carrier
  of  typhoid  fever  bacilli in accordance with the provisions of section
  two thousand one hundred fifty of this chapter, and when in the  opinion
  of the commissioner such person may be cared for at home or in a private
  family  with  due  regard  to  the  protection of the public health, the
  commissioner may furnish necessary medical  attendance  and  maintenance
  and designate the agency or person through which such medical attendance
  and maintenance shall be furnished.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 5 - Typhoid Fever › 2152 - Typhoid Fever; Carriers; Care and Maintenance, Payment of Expenses.

§  2152.  Typhoid  fever;  carriers;  care and maintenance, payment of
expenses.  1. No expenditure for the purposes authorized in sections two
thousand one hundred fifty and two thousand  one  hundred  fifty-one  of
this  chapter,  shall  be  contracted  for  or incurred by any agency or
person until after such expense has been authorized and approved by  the
commissioner.
2.  (a)  A  verified  statement  of any such approved expense incurred
pursuant to this section and sections two thousand one hundred fifty and
two thousand one hundred fifty-one of this chapter, shall be transmitted
to the commissioner.
(b) The commissioner shall examine the statement and if satisfied that
such authorized expenses are correct and necessary  in  accordance  with
rules  and  regulations adopted by him he shall audit and allow the same
and when so audited the amount  thereof  shall  be  paid  by  the  state
department  of  taxation  and  finance,  on  the  warrant  of  the state
comptroller to the institution, agency or person.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 5 - Typhoid Fever › 2153 - City of New York; Exceptions.

§  2153. City of New York; exceptions.  The provisions of sections two
  thousand one hundred fifty to two thousand one hundred fifty-two of this
  chapter, inclusive, shall not apply to the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 6 - Poliomyelitis and Other Diseases › 2160 - Poliomyelitis; Persons Twenty-One Years of Age and Over; Medical Inspection.

§  2160.  Poliomyelitis;  persons  twenty-one  years  of age and over;
  medical inspection.  In addition to the powers and duties prescribed  by
  section  two  thousand one hundred of this chapter, every local board of
  health and every health  officer  shall  exercise  proper  and  vigilant
  medical  inspection  of  all  persons  twenty-one  years of age or over,
  infected or who have been infected with poliomyelitis.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 6 - Poliomyelitis and Other Diseases › 2161 - Poliomyelitis; Persons Twenty-One Years of Age and Over; Care and Maintenance.

§  2161. Poliomyelitis; persons twenty-one years of age and over; care
  and maintenance.  Every county or part-county health commissioner,  city
  health officer in cities having more than fifty thousand population, and
  state  district  health officer shall, within their respective areas and
  after approval by the commissioner, provide at the remediable stages  of
  the  disease  known  as  poliomyelitis,  suitable  surgical,  medical or
  therapeutic treatment or hospital care,  and  necessary  appliances  and
  devices  for  all  persons  twenty-one  years  of  age or over including
  Indians residing on reservations, so  infected  or  exposed  who  cannot
  otherwise  be  provided  for.  In  a county the determination as to what
  persons cannot otherwise be provided for and relevant matters  shall  be
  made  by  the board of supervisors of such county against which the same
  is to be a charge and an investigation and report thereon to such  board
  upon which to make its determination shall be made by the public welfare
  commissioner  or such other county officer, or committee of the board as
  the board of  supervisors  may  designate  by  resolution.  The  charges
  approved  for  such treatment shall be in full payment thereof and shall
  be accepted by the person or corporation furnishing  such  treatment  as
  full  payment  and  no  such  person or corporation shall ask or receive
  directly or indirectly any other or additional compensation.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 6 - Poliomyelitis and Other Diseases › 2162 - Poliomyelitis; Application of Statute; City of New York.

§  2162.  Poliomyelitis;  application  of  statute;  city of New York.
  Notwithstanding any  other  provision  of  this  chapter  or  any  other
  general,  special  or  local  law, the terms "local board of health" and
  "health officers" as used in sections two thousand one hundred sixty and
  two thousand one hundred sixty-one of this  chapter  shall  include  the
  department of health of the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 6 - Poliomyelitis and Other Diseases › 2166 - Immunization; Regulations.

§  2166.  Immunization;  regulations.  The commissioner may promulgate
  regulations with respect  to  immunization  conducted  by  a  home  care
  services  agency licensed pursuant to section thirty-six hundred five of
  this chapter or certified pursuant to section thirty-six  hundred  eight
  of  this  chapter,  facilities or institutions established under article
  twenty-eight of this  chapter,  and  other  health  care  providers  and
  practitioners,  including, but not limited to, standards for the quality
  of care and services provided, consistent with the education law.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 7 - Hepatitis C › 2170 - Hepatitis C; Educational Materials.

§  2170.  Hepatitis  C;  educational materials. The commissioner shall
  develop and make available to physicians, other health  care  providers,
  veterans  and  other  persons  at  high risk for hepatitis C educational
  materials, in written and electronic forms, on the diagnosis,  treatment
  and  prevention  of  hepatitis  C.  Such  materials  shall  include  the
  recommendations  of  the  federal  Centers  for  Disease   Control   and
  Prevention  and any other person or entity having knowledge on hepatitis
  C, including the American Liver  Foundation.  Such  materials  shall  be
  written  in  terms  which  are  understandable by members of the general
  public.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21 - Control of Acute Communicable Diseases › Title 8 - Novel Coronavirus, Covid-19 › 2183 - Immunity Passports.

§  2183. Immunity passports. 1. Any covered entity that requires proof
  of COVID-19 immunization shall  permit  the  use  of  physical  immunity
  passports.  No  covered  entity  may  require  digital,  electronic,  or
  smartphone-based proof of immunity. Notwithstanding this section, anyone
  requiring  an  immunization  passport  shall  accept  a  valid  COVID-19
  Vaccination  Record  Card allocated to COVID-19 vaccine providers by the
  Centers for  Disease  Control  and  Prevention  for  that  purpose.  The
  provisions  of  this  section  shall apply to valid COVID-19 Vaccination
  Record Cards allocated to COVID-19 vaccine providers by the Centers  for
  Disease Control and Prevention.
2.  Nothing in this section requires a covered entity to require proof
  of  COVID-19  immunity  or  to  independently  verify  the   information
  contained in an immunity passport.
3.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  be construed to limit a covered
  entity's obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act,  article
  fifteen  of  the  executive  law,  the  civil  rights  law, or any other
  federal, state, or local anti-discrimination law.
4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the  practices
  of  a  health  care  provider,  as  defined  in section eighteen of this
  chapter, a hospital or nursing home as defined in  article  twenty-eight
  of  this chapter, a health practitioner as defined in section twenty-one
  hundred sixty-four of this chapter, a facility, as  defined  in  section
  33.13  of  the  mental  hygiene  law,  or  a correctional health service
  governed by the department of corrections and community supervision, the
  rules of the board of correction in the city of New York,  or  a  county
  board  of correction, with respect to records concerning their patients'
  vaccinations.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21-A - Long-Term Care Resident and Employee Immunization Act › 2191 - Definitions.

§ 2191. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:
1.  "Long-term care facility" or "facility" means a residential health
  care facility as defined in section twenty-eight  hundred  one  of  this
  chapter, adult home as defined in subdivision twenty-five of section two
  of  the  social  services  law or enriched housing program as defined in
  subdivision twenty-eight of section two  of  the  social  services  law,
  adult  day  health  care  program  in accordance with regulations of the
  department, and any other facility  providing  residential  housing  for
  five  or  more  persons  over  the  age  of  sixty-five unrelated to the
  operator and supportive services including, but  not  limited  to,  food
  service,   housekeeping,   laundry,  arranging  for  medical  care,  and
  assistance with daily living.
2. "Documentation" means written evidence from an individual's  health
  care provider indicating the date and place when the individual received
  the influenza vaccine or the pneumococcal vaccine.
3. "Medically contraindicated" means influenza or pneumococcal vaccine
  should   not  be  administered  to  an  individual  because  it  may  be
  detrimental to the individual's health if the  individual  receives  the
  vaccine.
4.  "Employee"  means  an  individual  employed  (whether directly, by
  contract with another entity or  as  an  independent  contractor)  by  a
  long-term care facility, on a part-time or full-time basis.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21-A - Long-Term Care Resident and Employee Immunization Act › 2192 - Long-Term Care Resident and Employee Immunization Required.

§  2192.  Long-term  care resident and employee immunization required.
  Except as provided in section twenty-one  hundred  ninety-five  of  this
  article,  every  long-term  care  facility  in  this state shall require
  residents  and  employees  to  be  immunized  for  influenza  virus  and
  pneumococcal disease in accordance with regulations of the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21-A - Long-Term Care Resident and Employee Immunization Act › 2193 - Resident Immunization.

§  2193.  Resident  immunization.  1. Upon admission, a long-term care
  facility shall notify the resident of the immunization  requirements  of
  this article and request that the resident agree to be immunized against
  influenza virus and pneumococcal disease.
2.   Every   long-term   care   facility  shall  document  the  annual
  immunization  against   influenza   virus   and   immunization   against
  pneumococcal  disease for each resident. Upon finding that a resident is
  lacking such immunization or the long-term care facility  or  individual
  is  unable to provide documentation that the individual has received the
  appropriate immunization, the long-term care facility shall  provide  or
  arrange  for  immunization.  Immunization  and the documentation thereof
  shall take place no later than November thirtieth of each year.
3. An individual who becomes a resident after November  thirtieth  but
  before  April  first  shall  have  his  or  her status for influenza and
  pneumococcal immunization determined by the facility, and if found to be
  deficient, the facility shall  provide  or  arrange  for  the  necessary
  immunization.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21-A - Long-Term Care Resident and Employee Immunization Act › 2194 - Employee Immunization.

§  2194. Employee immunization. 1. Every long-term care facility shall
  notify every employee of the immunization requirements of  this  article
  and  request  that  the employee agree to be immunized against influenza
  virus and pneumococcal disease.
2. The long-term care facility shall require documentation  of  annual
  immunization   against   influenza   virus   and   immunization  against
  pneumococcal disease for each employee. Upon finding that an employee is
  lacking such immunization or the long-term care facility  or  individual
  is  unable to provide documentation that the individual has received the
  appropriate immunization, the long-term care facility  must  provide  or
  arrange  for  immunization.  Immunization  and the documentation thereof
  shall take place no later than November thirtieth of each year.
3. An individual who is newly employed as an employee  after  November
  thirtieth  but  before  April  first  shall  have  his or her status for
  influenza and pneumococcal immunization determined by the facility,  and
  if  found to be deficient, the facility shall provide or arrange for the
  necessary immunization.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21-A - Long-Term Care Resident and Employee Immunization Act › 2195 - Exceptions.

§  2195. Exceptions. No individual shall be required to receive either
  an influenza vaccine or pneumococcal vaccine if the vaccine is medically
  contraindicated, or if it is against his or her religious beliefs, or if
  he or she refuses the vaccine after being fully informed of  the  health
  risks of such action.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 21-A - Long-Term Care Resident and Employee Immunization Act › 2196 - Rules and Regulations; Report.

§  2196.  Rules  and  regulations;  report.  1. The commissioner shall
  promulgate regulations relating to the immunization requirements of this
  article, taking into consideration the recommendations  of  the  centers
  for disease control and prevention.
2.  The  commissioner is hereby directed to make available educational
  and informational  materials  to  all  long-term  care  facilities  with
  respect to vaccination against influenza virus and pneumococcal disease.
3.  The  commissioner shall report three years from the effective date
  of this article to the governor, the temporary president of the  senate,
  the  speaker  of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate and the
  minority leader of the assembly on the number of outbreaks in  long-term
  care  facilities  each  year  due  to  influenza  virus and pneumococcal
  disease and  number  of  hospitalizations  of  long-term  care  facility
  residents  each  year  due  to influenza virus, pneumococcal disease and
  complications thereof.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 22 - Control of Tuberculosis › Title 1 - General Provisions › 2200 - Tuberculosis; Definitions and Explanation of Terms.

§  2200.  Tuberculosis;  definitions  and explanation of terms. 1. (a)
State residence. Under the conditions hereinafter specified, any  person
who  has  resided in the state of New York continuously for at least one
year immediately preceding the date of admission to a hospital  for  the
care  and  treatment  of  tuberculosis  shall  be  deemed  to have state
residence.
(b) State residence so acquired shall continue until such person shall
have removed from  the  state  and  remained  therefrom  for  one  year;
provided,  however, that no person shall lose state residence by absence
from the state while serving in the armed forces of the United States or
in the United States merchant marine, or while attached to  and  serving
with  the armed forces of the United States and, provided, further, that
no member of the family of any such person shall lose state residence by
absence from the state while living with or near such person during  the
period of such service and on account thereof.
2.  Local  residence.  Under the conditions hereinafter specified, any
person with state residence as  herein  defined  who  has  also  resided
within a county of the state or in the city of New York continuously for
at  least  six  months preceding the date of admission to a hospital for
the care and treatment of tuberculosis shall be  deemed  to  have  local
residence in such county or in the city of New York, as the case may be.
3.  Qualification  on  residence. The continuous residence required to
acquire either state residence or local residence shall not include  any
period  during  which the person was (a) a patient in a hospital, or (b)
an incarcerated  individual  of  any  public  institution,  incorporated
private  institution, or private tuberculosis home, cottage or hospital,
or (c) residing on any military reservation. If, however, the periods of
residence immediately prior and subsequent to the periods  specified  in
(a),  (b), or (c) shall together equal the required period of residence,
such person shall be deemed to have the required continuous residence.
4. State charge. State charge shall mean  any  person  suffering  from
tuberculosis  or  suspected  of  having  tuberculosis  and  in  need  of
tuberculosis hospital care and treatment therefor who is:
(a) without state residence;
(b) with state residence but without local residence;
(c) an Indian or  member  of  his  family  residing  upon  any  Indian
reservation in the state.
5.  Local  charge.  Local  charge shall mean any person suffering from
tuberculosis  or  suspected  of  having  tuberculosis  and  in  need  of
tuberculosis hospital care and treatment therefor who has acquired local
residence, as defined in this article.