2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 1 - Short Title and Definitions: General Provisions › Title 1 - Short Title and Definitions › 2 - Definitions.

§  2.  Definitions. 1. Whenever used in this chapter, unless otherwise
expressly stated or unless the context  or  subject  matter  requires  a
different  meaning,  the  following  terms  shall  have  the  respective
meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated:
(a) Department. The term "department" means department  of  health  of
the state of New York.
(b) Commissioner. The term "commissioner" means commissioner of health
of the state of New York.
(c)  Health district. The term "health district" means a county health
district,  part-county  health  district,   city,   town,   village   or
consolidated health district having a separate board of health.
(d)  County health district. The term "county health district" means a
health district comprising the entire  county  heretofore  or  hereafter
established.
(e)   Part-county   health  district.  The  term  "part-county  health
district" means all that part of a county outside of a  city  or  cities
having  a  population  of fifty thousand or more heretofore or hereafter
established as a health district.
(f) County department  of  health.  The  term  "county  department  of
health" means that division of the county government having jurisdiction
over the public health of a county or part-county health district.
(g)  County health commissioner. The term "county health commissioner"
means the executive officer of a county department of health.
(h) Local board of health. The term "local board of health" means  the
board  of  health  of  a  county,  part-county,  city,  village, town or
consolidated health district.
(i) Municipality. The term "municipality" means a city, village,  town
or consolidated health district.
(j)  Local  health  officer. The term "local health officer" means the
health officer of a  county,  part-county,  city,  village,  town  or  a
consolidated health district.
(k) Sanitary code. The term "sanitary code" means sanitary code of the
state of New York.
(l)  Communicable  disease.  The  term  "communicable  disease"  means
infectious, contagious or communicable disease.
(m) State institution in the department. The term  "state  institution
in  the  department"  means any state hospital or institution subject to
the jurisdiction, supervision and control of  the  state  department  of
health, and such other state hospitals and institutions as may hereafter
be  made  subject  to  the  jurisdiction, supervision and control of the
state department of health.
(n) Sexually transmissible disease. The term  "sexually  transmissible
disease"  shall  mean  a  disease  that  appears on the list of diseases
promulgated by the commissioner pursuant to section twenty-three hundred
eleven of this chapter.
2. Whenever the term "state board of health" occurs or  any  reference
is  made thereto, in any law, it shall be deemed to mean or refer to the
department as described in this article.
3. Whenever the term "public health council" or "state hospital review
and planning council" occurs, or any reference is made thereto,  in  any
law, it shall be deemed to mean or refer to the public health and health
planning council as described in article two of this chapter.