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2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 5 - Laboratories › Title 5 - Clinical Laboratory and Blood Banking Services › 576-B - Performance of Certain Clinical Laboratory Services Upon Request.

§  576-b.  Performance  of  certain  clinical laboratory services upon
  request. 1. A clinical laboratory  may  perform  a  clinical  laboratory
  service  (including  accepting  a specimen or assignment for examination
  and rendering a report), that it is otherwise allowed to  perform,  upon
  the  request  of  the  person on whom the service is to be performed and
  render a report directly to the person, where the  service  is  for  the
  same  purpose  as  a test or collection device that has been approved or
  cleared by the  Food  and  Drug  Administration  of  the  United  States
  Department  of Health and Human Services for sale or distribution to the
  public on a direct or over-the-counter basis without a prescription from
  a qualified health care practitioner.
2. All services conducted pursuant to this section shall  comply  with
  the  standards  for  testing  established by the department and with any
  other laws of this state, including requirements for confidentiality and
  pre-test and post-test counseling.
3. The results of any test conducted pursuant to this section shall be
  provided only to the person who requested the test. Such  results  shall
  be  provided in a clear and concise manner that is understandable by lay
  persons and that identifies results indicating the need for referral  to
  a physician or other qualified health care practitioner.
4.  Nothing  in  this section shall authorize a clinical laboratory to
  engage in the practice of any health care profession under  title  eight
  of the education law. The report issued to a person for a test conducted
  pursuant to this section shall contain a clear statement, presented in a
  prominent  manner, to the effect that the report should not be viewed as
  medical advice and is not meant to replace direct communication  with  a
  physician or other health care practitioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 5 - Laboratories › Title 5 - Clinical Laboratory and Blood Banking Services › 576-C - Electronic Reporting of Disease and Specimen Submission.

§  576-c.  Electronic reporting of disease and specimen submission. 1.
  Whenever a clinical laboratory or blood bank is  otherwise  required  by
  this  chapter to report evidence of a disease or health condition to the
  commissioner or a local health officer, the  laboratory  director  shall
  report  the test results and such data elements as are determined by the
  commissioner to be necessary as authorized by law. All reports shall  be
  sent  electronically  to  the department in a standards based electronic
  format, using a network, communications protocol,  clinical  syntax  and
  vocabulary  all  as determined by the commissioner to be compatible with
  national health information standards promulgated by the federal centers
  for disease control and prevention and  the  department  of  health  and
  human  services.  Reports shall be submitted on a schedule determined by
  the commissioner.
2. Clinical laboratories  and  blood  banks  may  continue  to  submit
  reports in paper copy to the commissioner and/or local health officer as
  otherwise  required  by  this  chapter until the earlier of the date the
  laboratory  director  receives  notice  that  the  laboratory  has  been
  certified  to report electronically or one year after the effective date
  of this section. Thereafter, all reports shall be sent electronically to
  the department.
3. In the event the system for electronic reporting is unavailable for
  any reason, including lack of certification  for  electronic  reporting,
  clinical  laboratories  and  blood banks shall make reports to the local
  health officer  of  the  county  of  the  patient's  residence  and  the
  commissioner   using   an   alternate   mechanism   determined   by  the
  commissioner.
4. Whenever the commissioner or a local health officer determines that
  supplemental testing is necessary to confirm evidence of  a  disease  or
  health  condition  otherwise required to be reported to the commissioner
  or a local health officer  pursuant  to  this  chapter,  or  to  further
  identify  the characteristics of a causative agent for reasons of public
  health protection, the laboratory  shall  submit  all  or  part  of  the
  specimen  or  its derivatives with patient identifiers to the department
  or its designee, or the local health officer or his or her designee,  in
  a manner and as directed by the commissioner.
5.  The  commissioner  may  adopt  rules  and regulations necessary to
  implement the provisions of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 5 - Laboratories › Title 5 - Clinical Laboratory and Blood Banking Services › 578 - Penalties.

§  578.  Penalties.  1.  (a)  A person who owns or operates a clinical
laboratory or blood bank, and who does not hold a  valid  permit  issued
pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this  title or who otherwise does not
comply with this title or the New York city health code is guilty  of  a
misdemeanor,  punishable  by imprisonment for not more than one year, or
by a fine of not more than two thousand dollars, or by  both  such  fine
and imprisonment.  For any subsequent offense, the penalty shall be both
such fine and imprisonment.
(b)  A person who owns or operates a clinical laboratory or blood bank
and willfully misreports laboratory results or otherwise fails to comply
with the provisions of this title is guilty of a  class  A  misdemeanor,
punishable  by  imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of
not  more  than  one  thousand  dollars,  or  by  both  such  fine   and
imprisonment.
2.  A person who acts as a director after July first, nineteen hundred
sixty-five, and who does not hold a valid certificate  of  qualification
issued  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this  title  is  guilty  of a
misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than one  year,  or
by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 5 - Laboratories › Title 5 - Clinical Laboratory and Blood Banking Services › 580 - Construction.

§  580.  Construction.  1. Nothing in this title shall be construed as
affecting the educational program of any college or  university  or  any
legally  chartered  school approved by the department of education which
program is conducted for the training of its students.
2. Nothing in this title shall be construed  as  affecting  facilities
which  perform  laboratory  tests  solely  for research purposes, nor as
affecting laboratory testing by a public health officer as  part  of  an
epidemiological  investigation  in which no patient identified result is
reported for diagnostic purposes  to  a  health  care  provider  or  the
subject of the test.
3.  (a)  Nothing  in this title shall be construed to impair or affect
the power or authority of the city of New York or a department or agency
thereof, to enact or  enforce  additional  laws,  codes  or  regulations
affecting  clinical  laboratories  or blood banks, not inconsistent with
the provisions of this title or any regulations  promulgated  hereunder,
related  to  the control, prevention or reporting of diseases or medical
conditions or to the control or abatement of  public  health  nuisances.
Noncompliance  with such laws, codes or regulations as documented by the
local public health officer may be a basis for the  department's  denial
or non-renewal of a laboratory permit or a certificate of qualification.
(b)  Such  local laws, codes or regulations which are more restrictive
than or additional to the requirements set forth in this  title  or  the
regulations promulgated hereunder shall be deemed not inconsistent.
4.  The collection, processing, storage, distribution or use of blood,
blood components or blood derivatives  for  the  purpose  of  diagnosis,
prevention  or  treatment  of  disease is hereby declared to be a public
health service and shall not be construed to be, and is declared not  to
be, a sale of such blood, blood components or blood derivatives, for any
purpose or purposes whatsoever.
5.  Notwithstanding  any  inconsistent provision of the education law,
individuals  performing  only   waived   tests   or   provider-performed
microscopy  procedures  in accordance with the provisions of subdivision
three of section five hundred seventy-nine of this title  shall  not  be
required   to   be  licensed  or  certified  as  a  clinical  laboratory
practitioner pursuant to the education law.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 5 - Laboratories › Title 5 - Clinical Laboratory and Blood Banking Services › 581 - Separability.

§  581.  Separability.  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or
  part of  this  title  shall  be  adjudged  by  any  court  of  competent
  jurisdiction  to  be  invalid, the judgment shall not affect, impair, or
  invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or  part  thereof  directly
  involved  in  the  controversy  in  which  the  judgment shall have been
  rendered.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 5 - Laboratories › Title 6 - Laboratory Business Practices › 585 - Definitions.

§ 585. Definitions. Whenever used in this title:
1.  "Health  services  purveyor"  means any person, firm, partnership,
  group, association, corporation  or  professional  corporation,  or  any
  agent,   employee,   fiduciary,   employer  or  representative  thereof,
  including but  not  limited  to  a  physician,  dentist,  podiatrist  or
  chiropractor,  either in individual practice, group practice or employed
  in a facility owned by any person, group, association, firm, partnership
  or corporation hiring  any  of  the  aforementioned  practitioners,  who
  provide health or health related services.
2.  "Clinical  laboratory" shall have the same meaning as is set forth
  in subdivision one of section five hundred seventy-one of this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 5 - Laboratories › Title 6 - Laboratory Business Practices › 586 - Payment for Services.

§  586. Payment for services. 1. It shall be unlawful for any purveyor
of clinical laboratory services, directly  or  indirectly,  through  any
person,  firm,  corporation or association or its officers or agents, to
bill or receive payment, reimbursement, compensation  or  fee  from  any
person  other  than  the recipient of the services, such recipient being
the person upon  whom  the  clinical  services  have  been  or  will  be
rendered.
2.  The  provisions  of  subdivision  one  of  this  section  shall be
inapplicable to services rendered by a clinical laboratory  operated  by
the state of New York; and to payment by:
(a) A legal relative of the recipient of the services;
(b) An insurance carrier designated by the recipient of the services;
(c)  A  hospital as defined in article twenty-eight of this chapter on
behalf of an in-patient or out-patient of such hospital having been  the
recipient of the services;
(d) One purveyor to another purveyor for actual services rendered;
(e) An industrial firm only for its own employees;
(f) A trade union health facility only for its registered patients;
(g)  Governmental  agencies  and/or  their specified public or private
agent, agency  or  organization  on  behalf  of  the  recipient  of  the
services;
(h)  A  substance  abuse or chemical dependence program which has been
approved to operate by the office  of  alcoholism  and  substance  abuse
services   pursuant  to  the  provision  of  section  23.01  or  article
thirty-two of the mental hygiene law on behalf  of  clients  of  such  a
program having been the recipient of the services; and
(i)  A  health  maintenance  organization operating in accordance with
article forty-three of the insurance law or article forty-four  of  this
chapter.
3.  The  public  health  council  shall  adopt  and  amend  rules  and
regulations, subject to approval by the commissioner, to effectuate  the
provisions and purposes of this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 5 - Laboratories › Title 6 - Laboratory Business Practices › 588 - Violations and Penalties.

§  588.  Violations  and  penalties.  1. Any health services purveyor,
clinical laboratory, or any agent, employee or  fiduciary  of  a  health
services  purveyor or clinical laboratory who violates the provisions of
section five hundred eighty-six of this title, or any rule or regulation
adopted pursuant thereto, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor  and  shall
be punishable in accordance with the provisions of the penal law.
2.  Any  health  services purveyor, clinical laboratory, or any agent,
employee  or  fiduciary  of  a  health  services  purveyor  or  clinical
laboratory   who   violates  the  provisions  of  section  five  hundred
eighty-seven of this title, or any rule or regulation  adopted  pursuant
thereto, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by:
(a) a term of imprisonment in accordance with the penal law; or
(b)  a  fine  of  not less than five hundred dollars nor more than ten
thousand dollars; or
(c) if the defendant has gained money or property through a  violation
of  the  provisions  of  this section, a fine in an amount, fixed by the
court, not to exceed double the amount of the defendant's  gain  from  a
violation   of  such  provisions.  In  such  event,  the  provisions  of
subdivision three of section 80.00 of the penal law shall be  applicable
to the sentence; or
(d) both the imprisonment and the fine.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 1 - State Aid for Basic Services › 600 - State Aid; General Requirements.

§  600.  State  aid; general requirements. In order to be eligible for
  state aid under this title, a municipality shall be required to  do  the
  following in accordance with the provisions of this article:
1.  submit  an  application  to  the department for state aid which is
  approved by the commissioner in accordance with section six hundred  one
  of this title;
2.  provide  core  public  health  services, as defined in section six
  hundred two of this title, in accordance with an application  for  state
  aid submitted by the municipality and approved by the commissioner;
3. submit a community health assessment in accordance with section six
  hundred two-a of this title;
4.  establish,  collect  and  report  fees  and  revenue  for services
  provided by the municipality, in accordance with section six hundred six
  of this title; and
5.  appropriate  or  otherwise  make  funds  available  to  finance  a
  prescribed share of the cost of public health services.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 1 - State Aid for Basic Services › 601 - Application for State Aid.

§  601.  Application  for  state  aid.  1.  The governing body of each
municipality desiring to make application for state aid under this title
shall annually, on such dates as  may  be  fixed  by  the  commissioner,
submit an application for such aid.
2.  The  application  shall  be in such form as the commissioner shall
prescribe, and shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) an organizational chart of the  municipal  health  agency,  and  a
statement  providing  the number of employees, by job title, proposed to
provide public health services funded by this title;
(b) a budget of proposed expenditures  for  services  funded  by  this
title;
(c)  a  description of how the municipality will provide public health
services;
(d) an attestation by the chief executive officer of the  municipality
that  sufficient  funds  have  been  appropriated  to provide the public
health services for which the municipality is seeking state aid;
(e) an attestation by the municipal officer in charge of administering
public health that the municipality has diligently  reviewed  its  state
aid  application  and  that  the  application  seeks  state aid only for
eligible public health services;
(f) a list of public health services provided by the municipality that
are not eligible for state aid, and the cost of each service;
(g) a projection of fees and revenue to be collected for public health
services eligible for state aid, in accordance with section six  hundred
six of this title; and
(h) such other information as the commissioner may require.
3.  The  commissioner  shall  approve the state aid application to the
extent that it is consistent with this section and any other  conditions
or  limitations  established in, or regulations promulgated pursuant to,
this article.
4. A municipality  may  amend  its  state  aid  application  with  the
approval  of  the commissioner, and subject to any rules and regulations
that the commissioner may adopt.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 1 - State Aid for Basic Services › 602-A - Community Health Assessment.

§  602-a.  Community  health  assessment.  1. Every municipality shall
submit to the department no more frequently  than  every  two  years,  a
community health assessment.
2.  The  community  health  assessment  shall  be  in such form as the
commissioner shall prescribe, and shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) an estimate and description of the health status of the population
and factors that contribute to health issues;
(b) identification  of  priority  areas  for  health  improvement,  in
conjunction with the state health improvement plan;
(c)  identification  of public health services in the municipality and
in the community and other resources that can be  mobilized  to  improve
population  health,  particularly  in those priority areas identified in
paragraph (b) of this subdivision; and
(d)  a  community  health  improvement  plan  consisting  of  actions,
policies,   strategies  and  measurable  objectives  through  which  the
municipality and its community partners will address  areas  for  health
improvement  and  track  progress  toward  improvement  of public health
outcomes.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 1 - State Aid for Basic Services › 603 - Core Public Health Services; Implementation.

§  603. Core public health services; implementation. 1. In order to be
  eligible for  state  aid  under  this  title,  each  municipality  shall
  administer  its  core  public  health  services  in  accordance with the
  standards of performance established by the commissioner  through  rules
  and  regulations  pursuant  to  section  six  hundred  nineteen  of this
  article. Each municipality shall,  in  particular,  ensure  that  public
  health services are provided in an efficient and effective manner to all
  persons in the municipality.
2.  The  commissioner  may withhold state aid reimbursement under this
  title for the appropriate services if, on any audit, review of  a  state
  aid  application  or  periodic claim for state aid, or other information
  available to the department, the commissioner finds that  such  services
  are  not  furnished  or  rendered  in  conformance  with  the  rules and
  regulations established by the commissioner, including but  not  limited
  to  the  standards  of  performance  established pursuant to section six
  hundred nineteen of this article, or that the expenditures were not  for
  an  activity set forth in section six hundred two of this title. In such
  cases, the commissioner, in order to ensure that the  public  health  is
  promoted  as  defined  in section six hundred two of this title, may use
  any proportionate share of a municipality's per  capita  or  base  grant
  that   is   withheld   to   contract  with  agencies,  associations,  or
  organizations. The health department may use any such withheld share  to
  provide  services  upon  approval of the director of the division of the
  budget. Copies of such transactions  shall  be  filed  with  the  fiscal
  committees of the legislature.
3.  Consistent  with  paragraph  (h) of subdivision two of section six
  hundred one of this title, when determining whether to approve  a  state
  aid  application or periodic claim for state aid, the commissioner shall
  have authority to request any and  all  financial  and  other  documents
  necessary  or  relevant  to  verify  that  the  claimed expenditures are
  eligible for state aid under this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 1 - State Aid for Basic Services › 604 - Supervision of Public Health Programs.

§  604. Supervision of public health programs. In order to be eligible
  for state aid, under  this  title,  each  municipality  shall  employ  a
  full-time  local  commissioner  of  health  or public health director to
  supervise the provision of public health services for that municipality,
  subject to the following exceptions:
1. such person may serve as the head of a merged  agency  or  multiple
  agencies, if the approval of the commissioner is obtained; and
2. such person may serve as the local commissioner of health or public
  health  director  of  additional  counties,  when authorized pursuant to
  section three hundred fifty-one of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 1 - State Aid for Basic Services › 605 - State Aid; Amount of Reimbursement.

§  605.  State aid; amount of reimbursement. 1. A state aid base grant
  shall be  reimbursed  to  municipalities  for  the  core  public  health
  services  identified  in  section  six  hundred two of this title, in an
  amount of the greater of one dollar and thirty  cents  per  capita,  for
  each  person  in  the  municipality,  or  seven  hundred  fifty thousand
  dollars, provided that the municipality expends at least  seven  hundred
  fifty  thousand  dollars,  for  such  core  public  health  services.  A
  municipality must provide all the core public health services identified
  in section six hundred two of this title to qualify for such base  grant
  unless  the  municipality has the approval of the commissioner to expend
  the base grant on a portion of such core public health services. If  any
  services  in such section are not provided, the commissioner shall limit
  the municipality's per capita or base grant to reflect the scope of  the
  reduced  services, in an amount not to exceed five hundred seventy-seven
  thousand five hundred dollars. The commissioner may use the amount  that
  is not granted to contract with agencies, associations, or organizations
  to  provide  such  services;  or  the  health  department  may  use such
  proportionate share  to  provide  the  services  upon  approval  of  the
  director of the division of the budget.
2.  State  aid  reimbursement for public health services provided by a
  municipality under this title, shall be  made  if  the  municipality  is
  providing  some  or all of the core public health services identified in
  section  six  hundred  two  of  this  title,  pursuant  to  an  approved
  application  for  state  aid,  at  a rate of no less than thirty-six per
  centum, except for the city of New York which shall receive no less than
  twenty per centum, of  the  difference  between  the  amount  of  moneys
  expended  by  the  municipality  for  public health services required by
  section six hundred two of this title during the  fiscal  year  and  the
  base  grant  provided  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  this section.
  Provided, however, that a municipality's documented fringe benefit costs
  submitted under an application for state aid and otherwise eligible  for
  reimbursement  under  this  article shall not exceed fifty per centum of
  the municipality's eligible personnel services.  No  such  reimbursement
  shall  be  provided  for  services  that  are not eligible for state aid
  pursuant to this article.
3. Municipalities  shall  make  every  reasonable  effort  to  collect
  payments for public health services provided. All such revenues shall be
  reported to the commissioner pursuant to section six hundred six of this
  title   and   will   be  deducted  from  expenditures  identified  under
  subdivision two of this section to produce a net cost eligible for state
  aid.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 1 - State Aid for Basic Services › 606 - Assessment of Fees; Third-Party Coverage or Indemnification.

§ 606. Assessment of fees; third-party coverage or indemnification. 1.
  Assessment  of fees by municipalities. Each municipality shall establish
  a  schedule  of  fees  for  public  health  services  provided  by   the
  municipality  and  shall  make  every  reasonable effort to collect such
  fees. Fees for personal  health  services  shall  be  reflective  of  an
  individual's  ability  to  pay  and  shall  not be inconsistent with the
  reimbursement guidelines of articles twenty-eight and thirty-six of this
  chapter and applicable federal  laws  and  regulations.  To  the  extent
  possible  revenues  generated  shall be used to enhance or expand public
  health services. In its state aid application, each  municipality  shall
  provide  the  department  with  a  projection  of fees and revenue to be
  collected for that year. Each municipality shall periodically report  to
  the department fees and revenue actually collected.
2.  Assessment  of fees by the commissioner. In each municipality, the
  commissioner shall  establish  a  fee  and  revenue  plan  for  services
  provided by the department in a manner consistent with the standards and
  regulations established pursuant to subdivision one of this section.
3.  Third  party  coverage  or  indemnification. For any public health
  service for which coverage or indemnification  from  a  third  party  is
  available,  the  municipality must seek such coverage or indemnification
  and report any associated revenue to the department  in  its  state  aid
  application.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 1 - State Aid for Basic Services › 607 - Supplemental Health Services Grants.

§  607.  Supplemental  health  services  grants.  1.  There  shall  be
  established within the special revenue fund-other a local public  health
  services  program  account.  All revenues derived from fees collected by
  the department pursuant to subdivision two of section six hundred six of
  this article and all fines levied and collected by the  department  from
  enforcement  actions  pursuant to the services provided under titles one
  and two of this article, and monies received or recovered as a result of
  any audit exception assessed against the state aid  reimbursement  to  a
  municipality  under this article, shall be deposited in the local public
  health services program account.
2. Notwithstanding the limitations of available state aid  defined  in
  section  six  hundred  sixteen  of  this  article,  monies available for
  supplemental health services grants in the local health services program
  account shall be used by the commissioner for the purpose  of  providing
  supplemental   health   services   grants   to  municipalities  for  the
  enhancement  of  public  health  services,  as  an   incentive   for   a
  municipality  not organized as a county health district or a part-county
  health district to become organized or in recognition of  municipalities
  which  have  consistently  maximized  revenue  collections. Criteria for
  eligibility for grants under this section shall be  established  by  the
  commissioner.  Monies  received  from  such supplemental grants shall be
  used to enhance or expand public health services and  may  not  supplant
  the  amount  that  otherwise  would  be  provided by the municipality or
  appropriated to the department.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 2 - State Aid for Additional Services › 608 - State Aid; Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs Support Services.

§  608.  State  aid; children and youth with special health care needs
  support services. 1. Whenever the commissioner of health of  any  county
  or  part-county  health  district  or,  in  a county lacking a county or
  part-county health district, the medical director of  the  children  and
  youth  with  special  health care needs support services program, or the
  department of health of the city of New York,  issues  an  authorization
  for  medical service for a child with physical disabilities, such county
  or the city of New York shall be granted state aid in an amount of fifty
  per centum of the amount expended  in  accordance  with  the  rules  and
  regulations  established by the commissioner, except that such state aid
  reimbursement  may  be  withheld  if,  on  post-audit  and  review,  the
  commissioner  finds  that the medical service rendered and furnished was
  not in conformance with a plan submitted by the  municipality  and  with
  the  rules  and  regulations established by the commissioner or that the
  recipient of the medical  service  was  not  a  child  with  a  physical
  disability as defined in section two thousand five hundred eighty-one of
  this chapter.
2. Whenever a court of any county issues an order for medical services
  for  any  Indian child with a physical disability, residing on an Indian
  reservation, such county shall be granted state aid in the amount of one
  hundred percent of the amount expended in accordance with the  standards
  established  by  the commissioner. Such reimbursement shall be made from
  any funds appropriated to the department for payment of  state  aid  for
  children with physical disabilities.
3.  The  clerk  of the board of supervisors or other similar governing
  body of each county, or chief fiscal officer of the  city  of  New  York
  which has paid claims as provided herein shall, not oftener than once in
  each  month,  transmit  to the commissioner a certified statement in the
  form prescribed by him, stating the amount  expended  for  the  purposes
  specified  herein,  the  date  of  each expenditure, and the purpose for
  which it was made. Upon the receipt  of  such  certified  statement  the
  commissioner  shall examine the same, and if such expenditures were made
  as required  by  law  he  shall  approve  it  and  transmit  it  to  the
  comptroller for audit. The comptroller shall thereupon issue his warrant
  in  the  amount  specified  in  such  approved statement for the payment
  thereof out of moneys appropriated therefor to the county  treasurer  of
  the county or chief fiscal officer of the city of New York.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 2 - State Aid for Additional Services › 609 - State Aid; Laboratories.

§  609. State aid; laboratories. 1. Where a laboratory shall have been
  or is hereafter established pursuant to article five  of  this  chapter,
  the  state,  through  the  legislature  and  within  the  limits  to  be
  prescribed by the commissioner, shall  provide  aid  at  a  per  centum,
  determined  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of subdivision two of
  section six hundred five of this article, of the actual cost of  repair,
  relocation,  equipment and maintenance of the laboratory or laboratories
  for services associated with a core public health service, as  described
  in section six hundred two of this title. Such cost shall be the excess,
  if  any,  of  such  expenditures  over  available revenues of all types,
  including adequate and reasonable fees, derived from or attributable  to
  the performance of laboratory services.
2.  Where  a  county  or  city  provides  or  shall  have provided for
  laboratory service by contracting with  an  established  laboratory  for
  services  associated  with a core public health service, as described in
  subdivision three of section six hundred two of  this  title,  with  the
  approval of the commissioner, it shall be entitled to state aid at a per
  centum,  determined in accordance with the provisions of subdivision two
  of section six hundred  five  of  this  article,  of  the  cost  of  the
  contracts.
3.  The  work  of  all  laboratories  except  the  laboratories in the
  department of health in the city of New York established  or  for  which
  aid  is received in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall
  be inspected and standardized by the commissioner and no state aid shall
  be given to any county or city unless the area of  the  district,  site,
  design and construction of the buildings, equipment, work and conduct of
  the  laboratory shall be first approved in writing, after inspection, by
  the commissioner or his representative.
4. The governing body of any county or city which has established  and
  is maintaining a laboratory or which is providing laboratory services by
  contract  with another laboratory and which desires to make applications
  for state aid under this title shall annually on such dates  as  may  be
  fixed  by the commissioner submit the request of such county or city for
  such state aid and shall support such request with such  information  as
  the  commissioner may require. The commissioner shall prescribe the form
  in which such information shall be submitted.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 3 - State Aid; General Provisions › 614 - Definitions.

§  614.  Definitions.  The  following  terms  shall have the following
  meanings:
1. "County", any county of the state other than  one  wholly  embraced
  within  a city or any combinations of counties or parts of a county that
  constitutes a health district.
2. "City", each city of the state having a population of  one  million
  or more, according to the last preceding federal census.
3. "Municipality", a county or city.
4.  "Governing  body",  the  board  of  supervisors of a county or the
  common council, city council or other legislative  body  of  a  city  or
  county.
5.  "Local  commissioner  of  health", the officer who administers and
  manages public health programs within a county who is appointed pursuant
  to section three hundred fifty-one of  this  chapter  and  who  has  the
  general  powers  and duties specified in section three hundred fifty-two
  of this chapter and the commissioner  of  health  in  a  city  having  a
  population of more than one million.
6.  "Public  health  director",  a  person,  including a county health
  director, who, with appropriate medical  consultation,  administers  and
  manages  public  health  programs  within  a  county, or a city having a
  population of less than two hundred fifty thousand, and  who  meets  the
  qualifications as prescribed pursuant to section two hundred twenty-five
  of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 3 - State Aid; General Provisions › 615 - State Aid; Form.

§  615. State aid; form. The appropriations made or to be made for the
  purposes of carrying  out  the  provisions  of  this  article  shall  be
  available,  in  accordance with certificates of approval issued or to be
  issued by the director of  the  budget,  to  the  commissioner  for  the
  payment of state aid to municipalities.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 3 - State Aid; General Provisions › 616 - Limitations on State Aid.

§  616.  Limitations  on state aid.   1. The total amount of state aid
  provided pursuant to this article shall be limited to the amount of  the
  annual  appropriation  made  by  the  legislature. In no event, however,
  shall such state aid be less than an amount to  provide  the  full  base
  grant  and,  as  otherwise  provided  by  subdivision two of section six
  hundred five of this article, no less than thirty-six per centum, except
  for the city of New York which shall receive no  less  than  twenty  per
  centum,  of  the difference between the amount of moneys expended by the
  municipality for eligible public health services pursuant to an approved
  application for state aid during the fiscal  year  and  the  base  grant
  provided pursuant to subdivision one of section six hundred five of this
  article.
2.  No payments shall be made from moneys appropriated for the purpose
  of this article to a municipality for contributions by the  municipality
  for indirect costs.
3.  Administrative  policy  changes relating to state aid shall not be
  implemented without reasonable and statewide advance written  notice  to
  municipalities.
4.  Moneys  appropriated  for  the  purposes  of  this  article  to  a
  municipality  may  include  reimbursement  of  a  municipality's  fringe
  benefits, including but not limited to employee retirement funds, health
  insurance  and  federal old age and survivor's insurance. However, costs
  submitted under an application for state aid must be consistent  with  a
  municipality's  documented  fringe  benefit  costs  and shall not exceed
  fifty per centum of the municipality's eligible personnel services.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 3 - State Aid; General Provisions › 617 - Maintenance of Effort.

§  617.  Maintenance of effort. Such amount of state aid provided will
  be used to support and to the extent practicable, to increase the  level
  of  funds  that  would otherwise be made available for such purposes and
  not to supplant the amount to be provided by the  municipalities.  If  a
  municipality  that  is  provided state aid pursuant to title one of this
  article reduces its expenditures beneath the amount expended in its base
  year, which is the most recent fiscal year for  which  the  municipality
  has   filed  all  expenditure  reports  to  the  department,  state  aid
  reimbursement provided  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  section  six
  hundred five of this article will be reduced by the percentage reduction
  in  expenditures  between its base year and its current fiscal year. For
  purposes of this section, reductions in expenditures shall  be  adjusted
  for:  an  absence  of  extraordinary expenditures of a temporary nature,
  such as disaster relief; unavoidable or justifiable program  reductions,
  such  as a program being subsumed by another agency; or in circumstances
  where  the   municipality   can   demonstrate,   to   the   department's
  satisfaction, that the need for the expenditure no longer exists.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 3 - State Aid; General Provisions › 618 - Performance and Accountability.

§   618.   Performance  and  accountability.  The  commissioner  shall
  establish, in consultation with the  municipalities,  uniform  statewide
  performance  standards for the services funded pursuant to this article;
  provided, however, the commissioner may modify a specific standard for a
  municipality if such municipality demonstrates  adequate  justification.
  The  commissioner  shall recognize the particular needs and capabilities
  of the  various  municipalities.  The  commissioner  shall  monitor  the
  performance  and  expenditures  of each municipality to ensure that each
  one satisfies the performance standards.  Any  municipality  failing  to
  satisfy its standards may be subject to a reduction or loss of aid until
  such  municipality  can  demonstrate that it has the capacity to satisfy
  such standards. The commissioner shall establish  a  uniform  accounting
  system for monitoring the expenditures for services of each municipality
  to  which  aid is granted and the amount of state aid received including
  any performance payments pursuant to section six hundred  nineteen-a  of
  this  article.  Such  reporting  system shall require information on the
  amount of public health moneys received from the federal government, the
  private sector, grants, and fees. Each such  municipality  shall  comply
  with the regulations of such accounting and reporting systems.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 3 - State Aid; General Provisions › 619 - Commissioner; Regulatory Powers.

§  619.  Commissioner; regulatory powers. The commissioner shall adopt
  regulations to effectuate the provisions and purposes of  this  article,
  including, but not limited to:
1.  setting  standards of performance for the provision of core public
  health services which shall include performance criteria to ensure  that
  reimbursable health services are delivered in an efficient and effective
  manner by a municipality; and
2.  monitoring,  collecting  data and evaluating the provision of core
  public health services by the municipalities and the amounts expended by
  the municipalities for such services.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 3 - State Aid; General Provisions › 619-A - Incentive Standards of Performance.

§  619-a.  Incentive standards of performance. 1. The commissioner may
  establish statewide incentive performance standards for the delivery  of
  core public health services.
2.  Within  amounts  appropriated,  and subject to the approval of the
  director of the budget, the commissioner may increase state aid  to  any
  municipality  that  meets  or  exceeds  statewide  incentive performance
  standards established under this section, provided  that  the  total  of
  such  payments  to all municipalities may not exceed one million dollars
  annually.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 3 - State Aid; General Provisions › 620 - Public Health Services Program Audit Recoveries.

§  620.  Public  health  services program audit recoveries. All monies
  received or recovered by the department after the effective date of this
  section as a result of any audit exception assessed  against  the  state
  aid  reimbursement  to  a  municipality  under  this  article  shall  be
  deposited in the local public health services program account.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6 - State Aid to Cities and Counties › Title 3 - State Aid; General Provisions › 621 - State Aid; Public Health Emergencies.

§ 621. State aid; public health emergencies. If the state commissioner
  or  a  county  health  department or part-county department of health or
  municipality, with the approval of the  state  commissioner,  determines
  that  there is an imminent threat to public health, the department shall
  reimburse counties or municipalities at fifty per centum for the cost of
  emergency measures as approved by the  department  and  subject  to  the
  approval  of the director of the budget, except that aerial spraying for
  mosquitoes on state land shall be reimbursed at one hundred per  centum,
  within  amounts  appropriated.  Such  funds shall be made available from
  funds appropriated for public health emergencies, only to those counties
  or municipalities, which have expended all other state aid which may  be
  available   for  related  activities  and  have  developed  measures  to
  adequately address the  emergency.  Reimbursement  is  conditioned  upon
  availability  of  appropriated  funds.  For  purposes  of  this section,
  "municipality" means a health department of a city that is  not  located
  in  a  county  or  part-county  health district or a county in which the
  legislature has the powers and duties of a board of health of  a  county
  or  part-county health district and cities with a population of over one
  million persons.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6-A - Rape Crisis Intervention and Prevention Program › 695-A - Definitions.

§ 695-a. Definitions. As used in this article:
1. "Rape crisis intervention and prevention program" means any program
  which  has  been  approved  by  the  department  offering counseling and
  assistance to clients concerning sex offenses, sexual abuse, or incest.
2. "Community support system" means a system of service providers in a
  community designed to meet the needs of  a  victim  of  a  sex  offense,
  sexual abuse or incest.
3.  "Comprehensive  services"  means  hotline,  counseling,  community
  prevention, recruitment and training programs,  accompaniment  services,
  and referral.
4.  "Counseling"  means individual communication and interaction which
  helps the client make choices and act upon those choices, provided to  a
  client  concerning  any sex offense, sexual abuse, incest, or attempt to
  commit a sex offense, sexual abuse, or incest.
5. "Client" means any person seeking or receiving the  services  of  a
  rape  crisis  counselor  for  the  purpose  of  securing  counseling  or
  assistance concerning any sex offense, sexual abuse, incest, or  attempt
  to commit a sex offense, sexual abuse, or incest.
6. "Hotline" means twenty-four-hour access to rape crisis intervention
  and  prevention  services  including  telephone  hotline  and  telephone
  counseling capabilities.
7. "Community prevention" means public education projects designed  to
  encourage victim use of rape crisis intervention services, educating the
  general  public  about  the availability and significance of rape crisis
  intervention services, providing sex offense,  sexual  abuse  or  incest
  prevention  and  personal  safety information, providing other education
  programs which sensitize service providers and the general public  about
  the  nature  of  sex  offenses,  sexual abuse or incest and the needs of
  survivors  of  a  sex  offense,  sexual  abuse  or  incest.   "Community
  prevention"  also  means and includes public education projects designed
  to teach the general public about  the  problem  of  acquaintance  rape,
  including  but not limited to: (a) the importance of promptly respecting
  the decision of another person not to engage in sexual conduct; and  (b)
  the  right  of  every  individual  to  make  such a decision and have it
  respected.
8. "Recruitment and training  programs"  means  programs  designed  to
  recruit  and train staff or volunteers in a rape crisis intervention and
  prevention program as well as training or education  to  other  agencies
  participating in a community support system.
9. "Accompaniment services" means services that assure the presence of
  a  trained  rape  crisis  worker  to  assist  and support the client, at
  hospitals, law enforcement agencies, district attorneys' offices, courts
  and other agencies.
10. "Referral" means referral to and assistance with medical  services
  and  services  of  criminal justice agencies, mental health agencies, or
  other entities providing related services.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 6-A - Rape Crisis Intervention and Prevention Program › 695-B - Authorization of Programs.

§  695-b.  Authorization  of  programs.  1.  The  department is hereby
  authorized to contract, within amounts appropriated, for  the  provision
  of  rape crisis intervention and prevention programs as provided herein.
  Rules, regulations and guidelines as shall be necessary  or  appropriate
  to assure successful implementation of this program shall be promulgated
  by the department.
2.  Nothing  contained  in this section shall prohibit a program, with
  the approval of the department, from subcontracting  for,  or  otherwise
  ensuring that the required services are available.