Title PBH, Public Health

§ 4925. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Medical debt" means an obligation or alleged obligation of a consumer to pay any amount whatsoever related to the receipt of health care services, products, or devices provid…

§ 4926. Medical debt reporting prohibited in contracts with collection entities. A hospital licensed under article twenty-eight of this chapter, a health care professional authorized under title eight of the education law, or an ambulance service certified under article thirty o…

§ 4927. Enforcement. Any portion of a medical debt that is furnished to a consumer reporting agency shall be void.

§ 500. Wadsworth center for laboratories and research; establishment. 1. The commissioner shall establish and maintain one or more laboratories with such expert assistants and such facilities as are necessary for routine examinations and analyses, and for original investigations…

§ 5000. Separability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this chapter shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its oper…

§ 5001. Saving clause; construction. 1. Nothing contained in this act shall affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the time when this act shall take effect, under or by virtue of the provis…

§ 5002. Laws repealed. Chapter forty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act in relation to the public health, constituting chapter forty-five of the consolidated laws, " and all acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, constituting the public health…

§ 5003. Time of taking effect. This act shall take effect June first, nineteen hundred fifty-four.

§ 501. State laboratories; approved laboratories; powers and duties of commissioner. 1. The commissioner shall have authority: (a) to make, at the expense of the state, examinations and analyses, at the request of any health officer or of any physician in accordance with the pro…

§ 502. Environmental laboratories; examinations; certificates of approval. 1. For the purposes of this section, "environmental laboratory" is any facility that examines or is available for the examination of samples or specimens including, but not limited to: air, stack emission…

§ 503. Laboratories; state hospitals; service to counties and municipalities. 1. The director of any hospital in the department, with the approval of the commissioner, may enter into a contract with proper municipal or county officials under which the laboratory service of the h…

§ 504. Laboratories; scientific tests on living animals; rules; approval. 1. The commissioner is authorized to designate approved laboratories or institutions wherein properly conducted scientific tests, experiments or investigations, involving the use of living animals, may be …

§ 505. Animal irritancy tests prohibited. 1. No manufacturer or contract testing facilities shall conduct traditional animal test methods within this state for which an appropriate alternative test method has been scientifically validated and recommended by the Inter-Agency Coor…

§ 505-a. Purchase of certain animals for scientific tests. It shall be unlawful for any laboratory or institution approved under this article, to purchase any dog or cat for experimental purposes unless the seller thereof shall provide proof of ownership of the animal of a suffi…

§ 506. Unlawful interference with research laboratory operations. An agency as defined in subdivision three of section eighty-six of the public officers law may deny access to records or portions thereof concerning biomedical research or biomedical teaching conducted at an insti…

§ 520. County laboratories; establishment; charges. 1. The board of supervisors of any county may establish therein a laboratory or laboratories which shall serve the whole or part of the county. 2. In the resolution of the board of supervisors establishing such laboratory it sh…

§ 521. County laboratories; establishment by referendum. 1. Upon the petition signed by two hundred or more taxpayers of the county or district to be served by such a laboratory, the governing body of that county or district at the next date for filling an elective office shall …

§ 522. County laboratories; boards of supervisors; powers and duties. 1. The board of supervisors, when it shall have determined to establish a county laboratory, shall have the power: (a) to acquire by purchase, exchange or otherwise, necessary real property, building or rooms …

§ 523. County laboratories; boards of managers; appointment; term. 1. The board of supervisors of a county establishing a laboratory pursuant to this article shall appoint a board of managers for the laboratory which shall consist of at least five members, two of whom shall be p…

§ 524. County laboratories; boards of managers; officers; meetings; compensation and expenses. 1. Except in counties wherein the laboratory functions as a division of the county health department or wherein the board of managers has been abolished, the board of managers of each …

§ 525. County laboratories; boards of managers; powers and duties. The board of managers of each laboratory, or the county board of health in any county wherein an alternative form of government shall have established a county health district coterminous with the county, subject…

§ 526. County laboratories; annual reports. 1. Except in counties wherein the laboratory has been transferred and established as a division of the county health department, the board of managers of each laboratory, or the county board of health which has been vested with the pow…

§ 527. County laboratories; director; powers and duties. 1. Except as provided in subdivision two of this section, the director or other person in charge of each county laboratory, subject to the approval of the board of managers, shall: (a) equip the laboratory with all necessa…

§ 528. County laboratories; bills and accounts; payment. 1. Unless otherwise provided by law, the director or other person in charge of each laboratory shall certify all bills and accounts including salaries and wages, and transmit them to the board of supervisors of the county …

§ 540. City laboratories; continuation and establishment. 1. (a) Nothing contained in sections five hundred twenty-five to five hundred twenty-eight, inclusive, of this chapter, shall be construed to repeal or amend any provision of law under which any health function or activit…

§ 541. City laboratories; operation and control. 1. Upon the establishment or continuation of a laboratory by a city as provided in section five hundred forty of this chapter, all the powers and duties of the board of supervisors of a county in relation to laboratories provided …

§ 542. City laboratories; boards of managers; appointment. 1. (a) The mayor of any city establishing a laboratory in accordance with the provisions of this article shall appoint the board of managers of such laboratory which board shall consist of at least five members, two of t…

§ 543. City laboratories; board of managers; power to enter into agreements with hospitals. The board of managers of a city laboratory shall have the power to enter into an agreement annually with the governing board of any charitable corporation or municipality operating and ma…

§ 545. City of New York; exceptions. Unless otherwise expressly provided, the provisions of sections five hundred forty to five hundred forty-four of this chapter, inclusive, shall not apply to the city of New York.

§ 560. Laboratory supply stations; districts; establishment. 1. The commissioner or his authorized representative may establish district laboratory supply stations, for the distribution of laboratory supplies furnished by the department. 2. The commissioner may designate distric…

§ 561. Laboratory supply stations; custodian; appointment. The commissioner may appoint the health officer of any municipality or county, the director or person in charge of any public health laboratory, or other competent person, to serve as the custodian of the district labora…

§ 562. Laboratory supply stations; expenses. The actual and necessary expenses of operation and maintenance of the district laboratory supply station and sub-stations shall be paid in the manner prescribed for the payment of other bills of the municipality or county. All such su…

§ 563. Laboratory supply stations; control; inspection; discontinuance. 1. Each district laboratory supply station and the sub-stations thereof shall be maintained and operated in accordance with the rules and regulations of the department and shall be subject at all times to in…

§ 570. Declaration of policy and statement of purpose. The proper performance of clinical laboratory and blood banking services is a matter of vital concern, affecting the public health, safety and welfare. Clinical laboratories and blood banks provide essential public health se…

§ 571. Definitions. As used in this title:\n 1. "Clinical laboratory" means a facility for the microbiological,\nimmunological, chemical, hematological, biophysical, cytological,\npathological, genetic, or other examination of materials derived from\nthe human body, for the purp…

§ 572. Certificates of qualification. No person shall act as a director in a clinical laboratory located in or accepting specimens from New York state or in a blood bank located in or collecting, processing, storing or distributing blood products in New York state unless a valid…

§ 573. Issuance of certificates of qualification. 1. The department shall issue a certificate of qualification to any person who meets minimum qualifications, prescribed by the department and in accordance with federal regulations, including board certification as required, and …

§ 574. Permits. No person shall own or operate a clinical laboratory located in or accepting specimens from New York state or own or operate a blood bank which collects, processes, stores and/or distributes, human blood, blood derivatives or blood components, in New York state u…

§ 575. Issuance of permits. 1. Application for a permit shall be made by the owner and the director of the clinical laboratory or blood bank in a manner and format prescribed by the department. The application shall contain the name of the owner, the name of the director, the pr…

§ 575-a. Source plasma donation centers. 1. Notwithstanding section five hundred seventy-four and subdivision one of section five hundred seventy-one of this chapter, a source plasma donation center may collect source plasma through plasmapheresis, and may employ a person to per…

§ 576. Duties and powers of the department. 1. The department may inquire into the operation of clinical laboratories and blood banks and may conduct periodic inspections and/or evaluations of facilities, methods, procedures, materials, staff and equipment to assess compliance w…

§ 576-a. Clinical laboratories and cytotechnologists examining Pap smears. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Cytotechnologist". A clinical laboratory professional sp…

§ 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 …

§ 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 shal…

§ 577. Enforcement. 1. A permit or certificate of qualification may be revoked, suspended, limited or annulled, or the holder thereof censured, reprimanded or otherwise disciplined by the department on proof that the certificate holder, owner or director, or one or more persons …

§ 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 misde…

§ 579. Scope and exceptions. 1. This title is applicable to all clinical laboratories and blood banks operating within the state, except clinical laboratories and blood banks operated by the federal government and clinical laboratories operated by a licensed physician, osteopath…

§ 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 t…

§ 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 th…

§ 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 …