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New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Reporting of Cases; Records › Section 2.10 - Reporting cases or suspected cases or outbreaks of communicable disease by physicians

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It shall be the duty of every physician to report to the
					 city, county or district health officer, within whose jurisdiction such patient
					 resides, the full name, age and address of every person with a suspected or
					 confirmed case of a communicable disease, any outbreak of communicable disease,
					 any unusual disease or unusual disease outbreak and as otherwise authorized in
					 section
					 2.1 
					 of this Part, together with the name of the disease if known, and any
					 additional information requested by the health officer in the course of an
					 investigation pursuant to this Part, within 24 hours from the time the case is
					 first seen by him, and such report shall be by telephone, facsimile
					 transmission or other electronic communication if indicated, and shall also be
					 made in writing, except that the written notice may be omitted with the
					 approval of the State Commissioner of Health. When a case which is required to
					 be reported under section
					 2.1 
					 of this Part occurs in a State institution or a facility licensed under article
					 28 of the Public Health Law, the person in charge of the institution or
					 facility shall report the case to the State Department of Health and to the
					 city, county or district health officer, in whose jurisdiction such institution
					 is located.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Reporting of Cases; Records › Section 2.11 - Reporting cases of communicable disease diagnosed after death

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If a pathologist, coroner, medical examiner, or other
					 person determines from examination of a corpse or from history of the events
					 leading to death that at the time of death this individual apparently was
					 affected with a communicable disease, he/she shall report the case within 24
					 hours to the proper health authority according to the manner indicated in
					 section
					 2.10 
					 of this Part as if the diagnosis had been established prior to
					 death.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Reporting of Cases; Records › Section 2.12 - Reporting by others than physicians of cases of diseases presumably communicable

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When no physician is in attendance, it shall be the duty of
					 the head of a private household or the person in charge of any institution,
					 school, hotel, boarding house, camp or vessel or any public health nurse or any
					 other person having knowledge of an individual affected with any disease
					 presumably communicable, to report immediately the name and address of such
					 person to the city, county or district health officer.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Reporting of Cases; Records › Section 2.14 - Reporting of suspected rabid animals and persons exposed to them

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[FN**] Action to be taken by health officer.
(a) Definitions.
(1) Health care provider shall mean any
				  person or facility which gives primary or secondary medical care to
				  humans.
(2) Exposure shall mean
				  introduction of the rabies virus into the body of a human or animal. Any
				  penetration by mouth to the skin of humans or animals constitutes a bite
				  exposure. A nonbite exposure is a scratch, abrasion, open wound, or
				  contamination of mucous membranes with saliva or other potentially infectious
				  material from a rabid animal.
(3)
				  Domestic livestock shall mean sheep, horses, cattle, goats and swine.
(4) Current vaccination shall mean the
				  administration of a rabies vaccine suitable to the species, which meets the
				  standards prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture for
				  interstate sale and is administered according to the manufacturer's
				  instructions under the direction of a duly licensed veterinarian not later than
				  the expiration date on the package. Current vaccination shall begin 14 days
				  following primary vaccination, and continue for the period stated in the
				  manufacturer's instructions.
(5)
				  Approved vaccine shall mean any rabies vaccine which meets the standards
				  prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture for interstate
				  sale.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Reporting of Cases; Records › Section 2.15 - Reporting of food poisoning

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(a) Every
				  physician, visiting nurse, public health nurse or any other person having
				  knowledge of the occurrence of illness believed to have been due to the
				  consumption of spoiled or poisonous food, shall report the same immediately, by
				  telephone, facsimile, other electronic communication, or in person to the city,
				  county or district health officer in whose jurisdiction it occurred.
(b) Provided that if the cases occur in a
				  State institution, said cases shall be reported to the State Department of
				  Health and to the city, county or district health officer in whose jurisdiction
				  such institution is located.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Reporting of Cases; Records › Section 2.16 - Notification and investigation of outbreaks

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(a) Whenever there shall occur in any
				  municipality an outbreak of illness, it shall be the duty of the city, county
				  or district health officer to report immediately by telephone, telegram or in
				  person the existence of such an outbreak to the State Department of Health. The
				  city, county or district health officer shall exercise due diligence in
				  ascertaining the existence of such outbreaks or the unusual prevalence of
				  diseases, and shall immediately investigate the causes of same. A report of
				  such investigation shall be forwarded to the Department of Health within 30
				  days of the end of the outbreak.
(b) Provided that when such an outbreak
				  occurs in a State institution, the person in charge of such institution shall
				  report the outbreak immediately by telephone, facsimile transmission, or other
				  electronic communication, or in person to the State Department of Health and to
				  the city, county or district health officer in whose jurisdiction the
				  institution is located.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Reporting of Cases; Records › Section 2.17 - Reports of tuberculosis cases confidential

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A State or local health officer authorized by law to
					 receive laboratory or other reports relating to cases of tuberculosis may
					 disclose information contained in such reports only when in his judgment it
					 will serve the best interest of the patient or his family, or contribute to the
					 protection of the public health. Such officer may, subject to the foregoing
					 purposes, permit access to such reports by representatives of official or
					 non-official agencies concerned with the control of
					 tuberculosis.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Reporting of Cases; Records › Section 2.18 - Tuberculosis records

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In any action or prosecution for violation of any of the
					 provisions of the Public Health Law, of this Chapter, or of the ordinances or
					 regulations of any local board of health, the person in charge of tuberculosis
					 records or reports made in pursuance of the provisions of sections 2220 and
					 2221  of the Public Health Law may in
					 obedience to a duly issued and served subpoena produce and allow to be placed
					 in evidence the whole or any part of such records insofar as the same shall be
					 deemed relevant by the court or by the judge presiding.
[FN*] See §
										2.17,
					 supra.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Isolation, Quarantine and Restriction › Section 2.25 - Contacts, date of last exposure, isolation and quarantine defined

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For the purposes of this Part:
(a) The term household contacts shall include
				  every person in a household wherein a case of communicable disease exists. By
				  an adult is meant an individual 15 years of age or over.
(b) The term incidental contacts shall
				  include persons other than household contacts who have been in contact with a
				  person affected with a communicable disease.
(c) The date of last exposure of household
				  contacts shall be the date of the removal of such household contacts to
				  premises other than those where the case exists, or the date of the removal of
				  the patient to other premises, or the date of release of the patient from
				  isolation.
(d) Isolation shall
				  consist of the separation from other persons, in such places, under such
				  conditions, and for such time, as will prevent transmission of the infectious
				  agent, of persons known to be ill or suspected of being infected.
(e) Quarantine of premises, except as
				  specifically modified in other sections of this Chapter, shall consist of:
(1) prohibition of entrance into or exit from
				  the premises, as designated by the health officer, where a case of communicable
				  disease exists of any person other than medical attendants and such others as
				  may be authorized by the health officer;
(2) prohibition, without permission and
				  instruction from the health officer, of the removal from such premises of any
				  article liable to contamination with infective material through contact with
				  the patient or with his secretions or excretions, unless such article has been
				  disinfected.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Isolation, Quarantine and Restriction › Section 2.27 - Physician to isolate person with highly communicable disease and give instructions regarding prevention of spread of the disease

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It shall be the duty of the attending physician immediately
					 upon discovering a case of highly communicable disease (as defined in section
					 2.1 
					 of this Part) to cause the patient to be isolated, pending official action by
					 the health officer. Such physician shall also advise other members of the
					 household regarding precautions to be taken to prevent further spread of the
					 disease and shall inform them as to appropriate specific preventive measures.
					 He shall in addition furnish the patient's attendant with such detailed
					 instructions regarding the disinfection and disposal of infective secretions
					 and excretions as may be prescribed by the State Commissioner of
					 Health.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Isolation, Quarantine and Restriction › Section 2.28 - Persons suffering from certain communicable diseases to be isolated

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Whenever a case of measles or typhoid comes to the
					 attention of the health officer, he/she may, according to his professional
					 judgment, establish and maintain isolation of such case for the period
					 specified herein; when isolation on the premises is impracticable, the health
					 officer may cause the removal of the patient to a suitable hospital.
(a) Measles. Until recovery.
(b) Typhoid. Until recovery. The patient
				  shall conform to the regulations for the control of typhoid carriers until
				  three successive specimens of feces passed not less than 48 hours after the
				  last administration of any antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agent and at an
				  interval of not less than 24 hours shall have been examined in an approved
				  laboratory or in the laboratory of the State Department of Health and found to
				  be free from typhoid bacilli. A person who has recovered from typhoid shall not
				  engage in the handling of milk, dairy products or other foods until all
				  secondary or complicating infections incited by the agents of this disease have
				  disappeared and until three successive specimens of feces passed not less than
				  48 hours after the last administration of any antibiotic or other
				  chemotherapeutic agent and at intervals of not less than 24 hours have been
				  examined in an approved laboratory or in the laboratory of the State Department
				  of Health and found to be free from typhoid bacilli. Should the organism of
				  typhoid be present one year after such person has recovered from typhoid, he
				  shall be released from the restrictions for typhoid carriers only with the
				  approval of the State Commissioner of Health.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Isolation, Quarantine and Restriction › Section 2.29 - Other highly communicable diseases

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Whenever a case of a highly communicable disease (as
					 defined in section
					 2.1 
					 of this Part) comes to the attention of the city, county or district health
					 officer he shall isolate such patients as in his judgment he deems
					 necessary.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Isolation, Quarantine and Restriction › Section 2.30 - Diphtheria

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(a) Isolation of
				  case, quarantine of children of household and modified quarantine for adult
				  household contacts. Whenever a case of diphtheria shall come to the attention
				  of the city, county or district health officer, he/she may, according to his
				  professional judgment, isolate the patient and establish and maintain
				  quarantine for the periods hereinafter stated. When isolation on the premises
				  is impracticable, the health officer may cause the removal of the patient to a
				  suitable hospital.
(b) The patient
				  shall be isolated until two successive cultures taken from the nose and throat
				  at intervals of not less than 24 hours and not less than 24 hours after
				  cessation of antimicrobial therapy, have been found free from diphtheria
				  bacilli in an approved laboratory, or in the laboratory of the State Department
				  of Health, the first of such cultures being taken not less than one week from
				  the date of the onset of the disease; except that if diphtheria bacilli
				  continue to be present in cultures, the health officer in his discretion may
				  release the patient from isolation 30 days after clinical recovery, provided
				  the mucous membranes appear normal and there are no abnormal discharges from
				  the nose, throat or ears or after 14 days following antibiotic
				  treatment.
(c) Personal contact(s)
				  of a case of diphtheria whose occupation involves handling food, providing
				  health care to patients, or close association with children, shall be prevented
				  by exclusion from that work until bacteriological examination proves such case
				  not to be a carrier.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Isolation, Quarantine and Restriction › Section 2.32 - Reports of gonorrhea, chlamydia trachomatis infection and syphilis cases confidential

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Records of the State Department of Health or of any local
					 department of health or local health authority having custody of such records
					 or of any laboratory, clinic or other institution relating to cases of
					 gonorrhea, chlamydia trachomatis infection or syphilis shall be confidential,
					 except that access to such records by representatives of official public
					 agencies concerned with the control of such diseases may be permitted at the
					 discretion of the State or local health authority having custody of such
					 reports.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Isolation, Quarantine and Restriction › Section 2.33 - Removal of cases of communicable diseases from one health district to another restricted

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Except as hereinafter provided no person affected with a
					 highly communicable disease (as defined in section
					 2.1 
					 of this Part) shall be removed from one health district into another except
					 with the permission of the city, county or district health officer from whose
					 district such person is removed and the permission of the city, county or
					 district health officer to whose jurisdiction such person is to be transferred.
					 The former shall give permission only after securing the consent of the health
					 officer to whose jurisdiction the person is to be transferred except that the
					 latter's permission need not be obtained if the patient is brought into a
					 municipality solely for hospitalization in an institution approved by that
					 municipality's health officer for admission of the type of case in question.
					 Such removal shall be by means of a private conveyance, in charge of a
					 responsible person and conducted in such manner as to prevent the exposure of
					 other persons to the patient.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Carriers and Control of Carriers of Disease › Section 2.40 - Carriers of disease germs defined; subject to restrictions

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(a) For the purpose
				  of the Public Health Law and this Chapter a carrier of disease germs is a
				  person in whose secretions or excretions the germs of a communicable disease
				  are present but who does not present clinical evidence of such
				  disease.
(b) A person shall be
				  deemed a carrier of disease germs if:
(1) the
				  germs of communicable disease are found in his secretions or excretions by an
				  approved laboratory; or
(2)
				  epidemiological evidence points to such person as the source of one or more
				  cases of communicable disease and such person refuses to submit specimens of
				  his bodily secretions or excretions for laboratory examination; or
(3) such person is reported as a carrier of
				  disease germs to the State Department of Health by the health authorities of
				  New York City or of any state or nation.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Carriers and Control of Carriers of Disease › Section 2.41 - Duties of health officers in relation to typhoid carriers

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(a) The health officer, upon the
				  determination that a person is a typhoid carrier, shall immediately report the
				  fact to the State Department of Health giving the full name, age, occupation
				  and address of such carrier, together with any other information relative to
				  possible or probable infection of others. He shall also inform such person, or
				  in the case of a minor, his guardian, that he is a typhoid carrier and shall
				  give instructions in detail as to the precautions to be observed in preventing
				  the spread of typhoid fever. Instructions given by the health officer shall
				  include a copy of section
				  2.42 
				  of this Part and directions to wash the hands thoroughly with soap and water
				  immediately after using the toilet and to use individual towels.
(b) The health officer shall inform the head
				  of the household in which a carrier resides that such an individual is a
				  typhoid carrier and of the precautions to be observed, and no persons other
				  than members of the family to which the carrier is immediately related, shall
				  continue to be or become a member of the household in which the typhoid carrier
				  lives, except with the permission of the health officer, and then only after
				  the head of the household has first informed such person, or in the case of a
				  minor, his parent or duly appointed guardian, of the presence of such carrier
				  in the household.
(c) The health
				  officer shall obtain a minimum of one stool culture, at least once each year,
				  from known typhoid carriers, in order to ascertain their carrier status. A
				  negative culture shall be followed up by referral to section
				  2.43 
				  of this Part.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Carriers and Control of Carriers of Disease › Section 2.43 - Release of typhoid carriers from control restrictions

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A chronic typhoid carrier may be released from restrictions
					 only on approval of the State Commissioner of Health. A chronic carrier in
					 whose feces typhoid bacilli have been found may be granted release only after
					 submission of the evidence required in subdivision (a) or (b) of this
					 section:
(a) That the gall bladder has
				  been removed; and either:
(1) subsequent to
				  the removal of the gall bladder, each of three specimens of the duodenal
				  contents taken at intervals of not less than 24 hours, has been examined in an
				  approved laboratory or in the laboratory of the State Department of Health and
				  found to contain no typhoid bacilli; and
(2) each of at least eight successive
				  specimens of feces and eight successive specimens of urine, taken on separate
				  days, in a hospital or under other circumstances which do not permit of
				  substitution, has been examined in an approved laboratory or in the laboratory
				  of the State Department of Health and found to contain no typhoid bacilli;
				  or
(3) subsequent to the removal of
				  the gall bladder, each of 16 successive authenticated specimens of feces, taken
				  at intervals of not less than 24 hours, with no more than four release
				  specimens having been taken during any three-month period of the first
				  post-operative year, has been examined in the laboratory of the State
				  Department of Health and found to contain no typhoid bacilli; and
(4) each of at least eight successive
				  specimens or urine, taken on separate days, has been examined in an approved
				  laboratory, or in the laboratory of the State Department of Health and found to
				  contain no typhoid bacilli.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Other Measures for Public Protection › Section 2.50 - Handling of food forbidden in certain cases

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(a) No person who suffers from cholera,
				  amebiasis, shigellosis, superficial staphylococcal infection, streptococcal
				  sore throat (including scarlet fever), salmonellosis, giardiasis, infectious
				  hepatitis, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, yersinosis, or typhoid, or
				  is a carrier of the organism causing amebiasis or shigellosis, salmonella
				  infection or typhoid, or who, in the judgement of the local health officer, is
				  suffering from acute infectious diarrhea shall serve or handle in any manner
				  whatsoever, food intended for sale.
(b) No person shall engage in the handling of
				  milk, dairy products or other foods until clinical recovery from salmonella or
				  shigella infection and until two successive specimens of intestinal discharges,
				  passed not less than one week after the week of onset and at intervals not less
				  than 24 hours, shall have been examined in an approved laboratory or in the
				  laboratory of the State Department of Health and on salmonella or shigella
				  organisms shall have been found.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Other Measures for Public Protection › Section 2.51 - Destruction of foods in certain cases

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When a case of diphtheria, streptococcal sore throat
					 (including scarlet fever), superficial staphyloccal infection, amebiasis or
					 shigellosis, salmonellosis, infectious hepatitis, poliomyelitis or typhoid
					 exists on any farm or dairy producing milk, cream, butter, cheese, other foods
					 likely to be consumed raw, the State Commissioner of Health or the city, county
					 or district health officer may destroy or order the destruction of any such
					 foods which in his opinion may have been infected.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Other Measures for Public Protection › Section 2.52 - Sale of food forbidden in certain cases

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When a case of diphtheria, streptococcal sore throat
					 (including scarlet fever), shigellosis (bacillary dysentery), salmonella
					 infection (including paratyphoid fever), or typhoid fever exists on any farm or
					 dairy producing milk, cream, butter, cheese, or other milk products, no such
					 substances shall be sold or delivered from such farm or dairy, except to a
					 plant in which all the milk, cream or milk products before delivery to the
					 consumer, are:
(a) pasteurized;
				  or
(b) made into evaporated milk,
				  condensed milk, dried milk, butter or cheese, in the process of which the milk
				  or the product undergoes heating equivalent to pasteurization; or
(c) made into cheese which is allowed to
				  ripen or cure at a temperature of not less than 35 degrees Fahrenheit for a
				  period of not less than 60 days.
[FN*] See Public Health Law, art. 21; Labor Law,
					 §333.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Other Measures for Public Protection › Section 2.53 - Cleansing, renovation or disinfection, when required

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Adequate cleansing, renovation or disinfection of rooms,
					 furniture, clothing and belongings when deemed necessary by the health officer
					 or required by the Public Health Law or by this Chapter shall immediately
					 follow release, death or removal of a person affected with a communicable
					 disease. Such cleansing, renovation or disinfection shall be done under the
					 direction of the health officer. Furniture, bedding, clothing, carpets, rugs or
					 other articles which may have been contaminated with infective material and
					 which are of such nature or in such condition that they cannot, in the opinion
					 of the health officer, be properly cleansed or disinfected, shall upon his
					 order be destroyed in the manner designated by him.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Other Measures for Public Protection › Section 2.54 - Duties of undertakers

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(a) It
				  shall be the duty of every person taking charge of the preparation for burial
				  of the body of any person to ascertain whether such person died of a
				  communicable disease, and if such person died of plague, it shall be his duty
				  to cause it promptly to be placed in a coffin or casket, which shall then be
				  immediately and permanently closed. This section shall not be construed to
				  prohibit the embalming of any such body, but if the body is to be embalmed the
				  undertaker shall cause such embalming to be done immediately upon taking charge
				  of the body. Immediately after the embalming he shall cause such body to be
				  placed in a coffin or casket as hereinabove directed.
(b) After handling, embalming, or preparing
				  for burial the body of a person dead of a communicable disease, such parts of
				  the person's garments, and utensils or other articles of the undertaker or his
				  assistants, as may have been liable to contamination with infective material,
				  shall be immediately cleansed or disinfected or sterilized.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Other Measures for Public Protection › Section 2.55 - Subcutaneous or intradermal diagnostic tests administered by individuals other than health care practitioners licensed under title 8 of the education law

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(a) As part of any
				  approved public health program, an individual other than a health care
				  practitioner licensed under title 8 of the Education Law may administer
				  subcutaneous or intradermal diagnostic tests, including but not limited to
				  tuberculin and histoplasmin tests, when so authorized by the State Commissioner
				  of Health or local health officer.
(b) Before individuals may administer
				  subcutaneous or intradermal diagnostic tests as provided in subdivision (a) of
				  this section they must have received training satisfactory to the State
				  Commissioner of Health or local health officer to include techniques,
				  indications, precautions and contraindications in the use of the agent or
				  agents and techniques of administration.
(c) The State Commissioner of Health or local
				  health officer shall maintain a current list of all individuals whose training
				  is satisfactory to him for the administration of subcutaneous or intradermal
				  diagnostic tests under his direction.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Other Measures for Public Protection › Section 2.56 - Immunizations administered by individuals other than health care practitioners as permitted by their license under title 8 of the education law

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(a) During the
				  course or as part of any public immunization program, individuals other than
				  health care practitioners licensed under title 8 of the Education Law may
				  administer immunizations involving oral, intramuscular, subcutaneous or
				  intradermal administration, including but not limited to immunizations against
				  rubella, polio, pertussis, measles, diphtheria and tetanus, when so authorized
				  by the State Commissioner of Health or local health officer.
(b) Before an individual may administer
				  immunizations as provided in subdivision (a) of this section, he must have
				  received training satisfactory to the State Commissioner of Health or local
				  health officer to include indications, precautions and contraindications in the
				  use of the agent or agents and techniques of administration.
(c) The State Commissioner of Health or local
				  health officer shall maintain a current list of all individuals whose training
				  is satisfactory to him for the administration of immunizations under his
				  direction.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Other Measures for Public Protection › Section 2.57 - Withdrawal of blood samples by individuals other than health care practitioners licensed under title 8 of the education law

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(a) During the course or as part of any
				  approved public health program (including but not limited to venereal disease
				  control and lead poisoning programs), individuals other than health care
				  practitioners licensed under title 8 of the Education Law may withdraw a blood
				  sample by means of skin prick or intravenous technique when so authorized by
				  the State Commissioner of Health or local health officer.
(b) Before an individual may withdraw blood
				  samples as provided in subdivision (a) of this section, he must have received
				  training satisfactory to the State Commissioner of Health or local health
				  officer to include procedures, precautions and contraindications in the use of
				  techniques of blood withdrawal.
(c)
				  The State Commissioner of Health or local health officer shall maintain a
				  current list of all individuals whose training is satisfactory to him for the
				  withdrawal of blood samples under his direction.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Other Measures for Public Protection › Section 2.58 - Turtle-associated salmonellosis and other bacteriological contamination which may cause disease in humans

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(a) On
				  and after the effective date of this section, no person shall bring into the
				  State of New York or sell or offer for sale or distribute at wholesale, retail,
				  or as gifts to the public, a live turtle or turtles with a carapace length of
				  less than four inches.
(b) The New
				  York State Department of Health or any designated representative thereof, or
				  any local health officer or his representative may at any time take samples of
				  tank water or any other appropriate samples from turtles offered for sale or
				  distribution, test the same, and order the immediate humane destruction of any
				  lot of turtles found contaminated with salmonella or other bacteriological
				  contamination which may cause disease in humans.
(c) The following warning must be posted
				  conspicuously at every display of turtles for retail sale or distribution or
				  where the public may handle turtles, unless the requirement is waived in
				  writing by the State Commissioner of Health:
"CAUTION: Turtles may transmit bacteria causing disease in
					 humans. It is important to wash your hands thoroughly after handling turtles or
					 material in a turtle bowl; not to allow water or any other substance from a
					 turtle bowl to come in contact with your food or areas where your food is
					 prepared; and to make sure that these precautions are followed by children or
					 others handling turtles."
(d) Pursuant to the Executive Law the
				  Attorney General may seek injunctive relief or any other remedy therein for
				  violation of this section.
(e)
				  Turtles of any size may enter the State for teaching use in educational
				  institutions, or for delivery to research institutions approved by the New York
				  State Department of Health pursuant to the provisions of article 5 of the
				  Public Health Law, as amended.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Other Measures for Public Protection › Section 2.59 - Prevention of influenza transmission by healthcare and residential facility and agency personnel

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(a)
Definitions.
(1)
Personnel
, for the purposes of this section, shall mean all
				  persons employed or affiliated with a healthcare or residential facility or
				  agency, whether paid or unpaid, including but not limited to employees, members
				  of the medical and nursing staff, contract staff, students, and volunteers, who
				  engage in activities such that if they were infected with influenza, they could
				  potentially expose patients or residents to the disease.
(2)
Healthcare and residential
				  facilities and agencies
, for the purposes of this section, shall
				  include:
(i) any facility or institution
				  included in the definition of
hospital
in section 2801  of the Public Health Law, including
				  but not limited to general hospitals, nursing homes, and diagnostic and
				  treatment centers;
(ii) any agency
				  established pursuant to article 36 of the Public Health Law, including but not
				  limited to certified home health agencies, long term home health care programs,
				  acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) home care programs, licensed home
				  care service agencies, and limited licensed home care service agencies;
				  and
(iii) hospices as defined in
				  section 4002  of the Public Health Law.
(3)
Influenza
				  season
, for the purposes of this section, shall mean the period of
				  time during which influenza is prevalent as determined by the
				  commissioner.
(4)
Patient
or
resident,
for the purposes of this
				  section, shall mean any person receiving services from a healthcare or
				  residential facility or agency, including but not limited to inpatients and
				  outpatients, overnight residents, adult day health care participants, and home
				  care and hospice patients, as well as any person presenting for registration or
				  admission at a healthcare or residential facility or agency.
(5)
Influenza vaccine
or
vaccine,
for the purposes of this section, means a vaccine
				  currently licensed for immunization and distribution in the United States by
				  the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for active immunization for the
				  prevention of influenza disease caused by influenza virus(es), or authorized
				  for such use by the FDA pursuant to an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or as
				  an Emergency Investigational New Drug (EIND).
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 2 - Communicable Diseases › Other Measures for Public Protection › Section 2.60 - Enforcement of Social Distancing Measures

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For purposes of civil enforcement, the provisions of
					 Subpart 66-3 of this Title are incorporated herein, and a violation of the
					 provisions of Subpart 66-3 shall be deemed a violation of this Chapter. All
					 local health officers shall take such steps as may be necessary to enforce the
					 provisions of Subpart 66-3 in accordance with the Public Health Law and this
					 Chapter.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 4 - PROTECTION AGAINST LEGIONELLA › Subpart 4.1 - Cooling Towers › Section 4-1.1 - Scope

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All owners of cooling towers shall comply with this
					 Subpart.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 4 - PROTECTION AGAINST LEGIONELLA › Subpart 4.1 - Cooling Towers › Section 4-1.2 - Definitions

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As used in this Subpart, the following terms shall have the
					 following meanings:
(a)
Bacteriologic culture sampling and analysis.
The term
bacteriologic culture sampling and
					 analysis
means the collection of a water sample for the measurement of
					 live culture growth of the aerobic bacterial populations by heterotrophic plate
					 count (HPC), dip slides, or similar method used by the industry and according
					 to the manufacturer's directions.
(b)
Building.
The term
building
means any structure used
					 or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy. The term shall
					 be construed as if followed by the phrase "structure, premises, lot or part
					 thereof" unless otherwise indicated by the text.
(c)
Cooling tower.
The term
cooling tower
means a cooling
					 tower, evaporative condenser, fluid cooler or other wet cooling device that is
					 capable of aerosolizing water, and that is part of, or contains, a recirculated
					 water system and is incorporated into a building's cooling process, an
					 industrial process, a refrigeration system, or an energy production
					 system.
(d)
Legionella culture sampling and analysis.
The term
Legionella culture sampling and analysis
means the collection of a water sample for the measurement of the live
					 culture of Legionella involving the use of specialized media and laboratory
					 methods for growth to determine the species and serogroup.
(e)
Owner.
The term
owner
means any person, agent,
					 firm, partnership, corporation or other legal entity having a legal or
					 equitable interest in, or control of, a cooling tower or the premises where the
					 cooling tower is located. In all instances, the legal owner of the building
					 shall be deemed an owner within the meaning of the Subpart. Further, where a
					 tenant owns a cooling tower that services the tenant's leased premises, the
					 tenant is an "owner" within the meaning of this Subpart. Additionally, if a
					 tenant does not own the cooling tower but has a lease or contractual
					 arrangement to maintain the cooling tower, the tenant shall be deemed an agent
					 having control of the cooling tower, and thus an "owner," for purposes of this
					 Subpart.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 4 - PROTECTION AGAINST LEGIONELLA › Subpart 4.1 - Cooling Towers › Section 4-1.3 - Electronic registration and reporting

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(a)
Registration.
All owners of cooling towers shall register such towers
					 with the department, using a statewide electronic system designated by the
					 department, prior to initial operation, and whenever any owner of the cooling
					 tower changes. Such registration shall include, at a minimum, the following
					 information:
(1) street address of the
				  building at which the cooling tower is located, with building identification
				  number, if any;
(2) name(s),
				  addresses(es), telephone number(s), and email address(es) of the owner(s) of
				  the cooling tower;
(3) name of the
				  manufacturer of the cooling tower;
(4) model number of the cooling
				  tower;
(5) specific unit serial
				  number of the cooling tower, if available;
(6) cooling capacity of the cooling
				  tower;
(7) cooling tower system
				  volume, inclusive of all piping, basin(s), and sump;
(8) intended use of the cooling
				  tower;
(9) whether the cooling
				  tower operates year-round or seasonally and, if seasonally, start and end date
				  of operation;
(10) whether
				  systematic disinfection in accordance with section 4-1.7  of this Subpart is
				  maintained manually, through timed injection, or through continuous
				  delivery;
(11) whether maintenance
				  is performed by in-house personnel, by a contractor, or by other parties;
				  and
(12) year the cooling tower was
				  placed into service.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 4 - PROTECTION AGAINST LEGIONELLA › Subpart 4.1 - Cooling Towers › Section 4-1.5 - Legionella culture analysis

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All Legionella culture analyses must be performed by a
					 laboratory that is approved to perform such analysis by the New York State
					 Environmental Laboratory Approval Program (ELAP).
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 4 - PROTECTION AGAINST LEGIONELLA › Subpart 4.1 - Cooling Towers › Section 4-1.6 - Notification

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(a) The owner of a
				  cooling tower shall notify the local health department within 24 hours of
				  receipt of a Legionella culture sample result that exceeds 1,000 colony forming
				  units per milliliter (CFU/mL). The local health department shall notify the
				  State Department of Health with 24 hours of receipt of such a report.
(b) The owner shall notify the public of such
				  test results in a manner determined by the local health department or, in the
				  event that the department elects to determine the manner of public
				  notification, by the department.
New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 4 - PROTECTION AGAINST LEGIONELLA › Subpart 4.1 - Cooling Towers › Section 4-1.7 - Disinfection

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(a) Any person who
				  disinfects a cooling tower shall be a commercial pesticide applicator or
				  pesticide technician who is qualified to apply biocide in a cooling tower and
				  certified in accordance with the requirements of article 33 of the
				  Environmental Conservation Law and 6 NYCRR Part 325, or a pesticide apprentice
				  under the supervision of a certified applicator.
(b) The name and certification number of the
				  applicator or the business name and registration number of the company
				  providing the disinfection shall be maintained on-site in accordance with
				  section 4-1.9  of this Subpart.
(c)
				  Only biocide products registered by the New York State Department of
				  Environmental Conservation for use in cooling towers or pesticidal devices
				  produced in a USEPA registered establishment may be used in
				  disinfection.
(d) The terms
disinfect
and
disinfection
in this Part means
				  the control of microorganisms or microbial growth. The term
disinfection
shall not include the cleaning of a cooling tower
				  through application of detergents, penetrants, brushes or other tools,
				  high-powered water, or any other method that does not involve the use of a
				  pesticide, as defined in 6 NYCRR Part 325.