2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 13-B - Regulation of Overnight, Summer Day, and Traveling Summer Day Camps for Children › 1394 - Children's Camps; Standards and Regulations.

§  1394.  Children's  camps; standards and regulations.  1. The public
  health  and  health  planning  council  shall  prescribe  standards  and
  establish regulations for children's overnight, summer day and traveling
  summer day camps, as defined in this article, concerning such matters as
  may  be  appropriate for the protection and security of the life, health
  and safety of the occupants of such camps.
2. All buses or other motor vehicles which are owned  by  a  traveling
  summer  day  camp  or  which are operated or leased by such camp for the
  purpose of transporting children attending  such  camp  shall  meet  the
  requirements  for  safe  operation  of  such vehicles as provided for in
  section one hundred forty of the transportation law.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of Title VIII of the education  law,
  any person, firm, corporation, or association that operates a children's
  overnight,  summer day, or traveling summer day camp, and has obtained a
  permit  pursuant  to  section  thirteen  hundred  ninety-three  of  this
  article,  shall  be  authorized  to employ or contract with a physician,
  nurse practitioner, physician assistant, registered nurse,  or  licensed
  practical  nurse  or emergency medical technician to act as a designated
  camp health director or to provide health services in assistance to  the
  camp  health  director for the sole purpose of providing health services
  that benefit campers and  staff  at  the  camp  while  the  camp  is  in
  operation.  In  cases  where  the camp health director's lawful scope of
  practice  is  more  limited  than  that  of  the  licensed  professional
  providing  services,  the  camp  health director shall not supervise the
  provision of such treatment, but shall be informed of such treatment  as
  medically necessary to ensure the well-being of the camper and staff. In
  cases where an emergency medical technician is the camp health director,
  the  emergency  medical  technician shall not supervise the provision of
  treatment by the licensed professional providing services, but shall  be
  informed  of  such  treatment  as  medically  necessary  to  ensure  the
  well-being of the camper and staff.
4. Each children's overnight camp,  summer  day  camp  and  travelling
  summer  day  camp  shall allow children attending such camp to carry and
  use topical sunscreen products approved by the  federal  Food  and  Drug
  Administration  for  over-the-counter  use  for  the purpose of avoiding
  overexposure to the sun and not for medical treatment of  an  injury  or
  illness,  with  the  written permission of the parent or guardian of the
  child. A record of such permission shall be maintained by  the  camp.  A
  child  who  is  unable  to physically apply sunscreen may be assisted by
  unlicensed personnel when directed to do so by the child,  if  permitted
  by a parent or guardian and authorized by the camp.
5.  Each  children's  overnight  camp,  summer  day camp and traveling
  summer day camp shall allow children attending such camp  to  carry  and
  use insect repellent with the written permission of a parent or guardian
  of  any  child.  A  record of such permission shall be maintained by the
  camp.  A child who is unable to physically apply insect repellent may be
  assisted by unlicensed personnel when directed to do so by the child, if
  permitted by a parent or guardian and authorized by the camp.
6. Notwithstanding the provisions of Title VIII of the education  law,
  any person, firm, corporation, or association that operates a children's
  overnight,  summer day, or traveling summer day camp, and has obtained a
  permit  pursuant  to  section  thirteen  hundred  ninety-three  of  this
  article,  shall  be  authorized  to  employ or contract with individuals
  licensed under articles one hundred fifty-three, one hundred fifty-four,
  one hundred sixty-three and one hundred sixty-seven of the education law
  to provide mental health services for any period during which  the  camp
  has  a  valid  permit  to  operate and for the sole purpose of providing
  health services that benefit campers and staff at  the  camp  while  the

  camp  is  in  operation.  Individuals  hired  under  this  section shall
  communicate with the camp health director when medically necessary.
7.  All  decisions,  identification  or  coordination  of professional
  services, or other professional interactions  with  campers  and  staff,
  must  be  made  based  on the professional judgment of such licensees to
  provide professional services within his or her lawful scope of practice
  for the purpose of treating campers and staff during their attendance or
  employment at such camp, pursuant to applicable regulations  promulgated
  by the commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of education.
8.  Nothing  in this section shall be construed to limit the authority
  of another state agency if such state  agency  is  otherwise  authorized
  under  another  provision  of  law  to  certify,  license,  contract  or
  authorize such  camp,  nor  shall  the  authority  to  hire  individuals
  licensed  pursuant  to this section be construed to provide an exemption
  of such camp from  any  certification,  licensure,  or  any  other  such
  requirement  established  by  such  state  agency  or  under  any  other
  provision of law.
9. A camp that employs or contracts with an individual licensed  under
  articles  one  hundred  fifty-three, one hundred fifty-four, one hundred
  sixty-three and one hundred sixty-seven of the education law under  this
  section shall list such individuals in their general consent form.