Title PBH, Public Health

§ 4010. Powers and duties of the commissioner and the state hospital review and planning council. 1. The commissioner shall have the power to conduct periodic inspections of hospices with respect to the fitness and adequacy of equipment, personnel, rules and bylaws, standards of…

§ 4011. Quality assurance. 1. Every hospice is required to establish a quality assurance program which shall objectively and systematically monitor and evaluate the quality and appropriateness of care and services provided by the hospice. 2. The information required to be collec…

§ 4012. Payment for hospice. 1. No government agency shall purchase, pay for or make reimbursement or grants-in-aid for services provided by a hospice unless, at the time the services were provided, the hospice possessed a valid certificate of approval. 2. Payments for hospice c…

§ 4012-a. Hospice supplemental financial assistance program for persons with special needs. 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation to the contrary, an additional amount may be added to a hospice's rate pursuant to the medical assistance program, subject to approva…

§ 4012-b. Hospice palliative care. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of this article to the contrary, a hospice may also offer a program of palliative care for patients with advanced life-limiting conditions and illnesses and their families. Such a program may be pro…

§ 4013. Hospice worker recruitment and retention program. 1. The commissioner shall, subject to the provisions of subdivision two of this section, increase medical assistance rates of payment by up to three percent for hospice services provided on and after December first, two t…

§ 4013-b. Home care services worker registry. A hospice program providing hospice care in a patient's home shall comply with the home care services worker registry under section thirty-six hundred thirteen of this chapter.

§ 4014. Hospice residence pilot program. 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized to establish a hospice residence pilot program. Such program, subject to the rules and regulations of the commissioner, shall authorize the operation of not more than ten hospice residences operate…

§ 4015. Pilot program for all-inclusive care for children. 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized to establish a pilot program for all-inclusive care for children. Such program, subject to the rules and regulations of the commissioner, shall consist of comprehensive hospice an…

§ 403. Hospitals; property; authority to acquire and to hold. 1. The following state hospitals are hereby continued in the department for the purposes for which they have been respectively established: (a) The Helen Hayes hospital; (b) Roswell Park Cancer Institute; (c) The New …

§ 403-a. The New York state home for veterans and their dependents at Oxford. The New York state home for veterans and their dependents at Oxford shall be subject to the provisions of this article except when such provisions are inconsistent with the provisions of article twenty…

§ 403-b. The New York state home for veterans in the city of New York. There is hereby established in the city of New York a New York state home for veterans. Such home for veterans shall be subject to the provisions of this article except when such provisions are inconsistent w…

§ 403-c. The New York state home for veterans in western New York. There is hereby established a state home for veterans in western New York. Such home for veterans shall be subject to the provisions of this article except when such provisions are inconsistent with the provision…

§ 403-d. The New York state home for veterans in the lower-Hudson Valley. There is hereby established a state home for veterans in the lower-Hudson Valley. Such home for veterans shall be subject to the provisions of this article except when such provisions are inconsistent with…

§ 404. Hospitals; property; authority to acquire and to hold. 1. The board of visitors of each state hospital in the department, as the agent of the department, is hereby authorized to take and hold, in the name of and for the people of the state, by grant, gift, devise or beque…

§ 405. Hospitals; visitors and officers; oaths and bonds. 1. Each director, member of the board of visitors, and treasurer of the several state hospitals in the department shall take the constitutional oath of office.

§ 406. Hospitals; refunds, waivers and compromises of bills. 1. Moneys heretofore or hereafter received by the department for the accounts of any of the hospitals or institutions of the department may be refunded to the person or party for whose account same were received, and w…

§ 407. Hospitals; privileges to students. 1. Whenever the person or persons having lawful control and management over any public hospital in any city or county in this state, shall grant to matriculated students of any legally incorporated medical college in said city or county,…

§ 408. Hospitals; admission of patients; in general. 1. If in the judgment of the director of a hospital in the department the number of patients of the hospital at any time so far exceeds its proper capacity that suitable care, training or discipline cannot be given to addition…

§ 409. Department of health income fund. 1. There is established in the custody of the comptroller a special account, to be known as the department of health income fund. 2. (a) The commissioner shall, after the first day of July, nineteen hundred seventy-one, pay over moneys re…

§ 409-a. Department of health New York city veterans home income fund. 1. There is established in the custody of the comptroller a special account, to be known as the "department of health New York city veterans home income fund", which shall be referred to in this section as "t…

§ 409-b. Distribution of surplus revenue. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of section four hundred nine of this article, the commissioner shall establish a plan for distribution of surplus revenue to the institutional program in accordance with the provisions of th…

§ 409-c. Powers and duties of the commissioner; administrative and fiscal functions. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections forty-four, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one and ninety-three of the state finance law, section nine of the public buildings law or any other provision …

§ 410. Hospitals; reimbursement. No corporation organized and operating in accordance with article forty-three of the insurance law, organization operating in accordance with the provisions of article forty-four of this chapter, commercial insurer licensed to do business in this…

§ 4100. Vital statistics; functions, powers and duties of the department, commissioner and public health council. 1. The department shall, except in the city of New York: (a) have charge of the registration of births and deaths; (b) procure the faithful registration of births an…

§ 4100-a. Definitions. As used or referred to in this article: 1. The term "certified copy" means a photographic reproduction in the form of a photocopy or a microfilm print of the original certificate or electronically produced print of the original certificate, commencing on o…

§ 4101. Vital statistics; enforcement. 1. The commissioner is hereby charged with the execution of the provisions of this article and is hereby granted supervisory power over registrars, deputy registrars, and subregistrars, to the extent that there shall be uniform compliance w…

§ 4102. Vital statistics; violations; penalties. 1. Any person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall for the first offense be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars and for each subsequent offense not less than ten dolla…

§ 4103. Vital statistics; evidence. 1. Certified copies of birth certificates, certification of birth, certified or verified transcripts of birth certificates, certificates of birth data or certificates of registration of birth shall be accepted by public school authorities in t…

§ 4104. Vital statistics; application of article. The provisions of this article except for the provisions contained in paragraph (i) of subdivision two and subdivision four of section four thousand one hundred, section four thousand one hundred three, subdivision two of section…

§ 4120. Vital statistics; registration districts; establishment. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this article, each city, incorporated village and town in the state shall constitute a separate primary registration district, except that the commissioner may designate any count…

§ 4121. Vital statistics; registrar; qualifications and appointment. 1. In each primary registration district there shall be a registrar of vital statistics. 2. Qualifications of registrars of vital statistics hereafter appointed may be prescribed by the public health council, p…

§ 4122. Vital statistics; deputy registrars and subregistrars; appointment. 1. Immediately upon his acceptance of appointment, each registrar of vital statistics shall appoint a deputy whose duty it shall be to act in his stead in case of his absence or inability, and such deput…

§ 4123. Vital statistics; registrars; term of office; oath; removal. 1. Unless the charter of the city or village shall provide otherwise, the term of office of a registrar of vital statistics shall be four years, except that in a town or village of the first class operating und…

§ 4124. Vital statistics; registrars and subregistrars; compensation and expenses. 1. Except as otherwise provided, each registrar shall be paid: (a) the sum of fifty cents for each birth certificate properly and completely made out, registered and promptly returned by him to th…

§ 4130. Births; registration. 1. Live birth is defined as the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the…

§ 4131. Births; registration; foundlings. 1. The report of the finding of a child whose parents are unknown, filed by the commissioner of social services or by the city social services officer in accordance with the provisions of subdivision two of section three hundred ninety-e…

§ 4132. Birth certificate; form and content. 1. The certificate of birth shall contain such information, including the social security numbers of the parents, and be in such form as the commissioner may prescribe. 2. The personal particulars called for shall be obtained from a c…

§ 4133. Birth certificate; incomplete; duty of registrar. 1. If a certificate of birth is incomplete, the registrar of the district in which the birth occurred and with whom the certificate has been filed shall immediately notify the person who signed the record, and require him…

§ 4134. Birth certificate; unnamed child. 1. If a living child has not yet been named at the date of filing the certificate of birth, the space provided for the given name of the child is to be left blank, to be filled out subsequently by a supplemental report, as herein provide…

§ 4135. Birth certificate; child born out of wedlock. 1. (a) There shall be no specific statement on the birth certificate as to whether the child is born in wedlock or out of wedlock or as to the marital name or status of the mother. (b) The phrase "child born out of wedlock" w…

§ 4135-a. Birth certificate; child born in prison. There shall be no specific statement on the birth certificate as to the fact that a child was born in prison.

§ 4135-b. Voluntary acknowledgments of parentage. 1. (a) Immediately preceding or following the in-hospital birth of a child to an unmarried person or to a person who gave birth to a child conceived through assisted reproduction, the person in charge of such hospital or his or h…

§ 4136. Birth certificate; statement as to blood test. 1. In reporting every birth and fetal death, physicians and others permitted to attend pregnancy cases and required to report births and fetal deaths shall state on the birth certificate or fetal death certificate, as the ca…

§ 4137. Births; notice of recording. 1. (a) Within ten days after receiving the certificate of birth the registrar shall furnish without charge to the parents or guardian of the child or to the mother at the address designated by her for the purpose, a certified copy. (b) The re…

§ 4138. Birth certificate; new certificate in case of subsequent marriage of unwed parents; adoption; adjudication of parentage; change of name of registrant or parent; gender transition of registrant or parent. 1. A new certificate of birth shall be made whenever: (a) proof is …

§ 4138-a. Certificate of birth data. Any existing certificate of birth data shall continue to be effective.

§ 4138-b. Birth certificate: foreign adoption. 1. Whenever the finalization of a foreign adoption or recognition of a foreign adoption of a person of any age pursuant to section one hundred eleven-c of the domestic relations law, or the adoption of a foreign-born person of any a…

§ 4138-c. Adoption information registry. 1. There shall be established\nin the department an adoption information registry operated by employees\nof the department specifically designated by the commissioner. Access to\nall records and information in the registry shall be limite…

§ 4138-d. Mutual consent voluntary adoption registry. 1. A mutual consent voluntary adoption registry may be established and maintained by each authorized agency involved in an adoption. Persons eligible to receive identifying information may work through the agency involved in …