Title PBH, Public Health

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

§ 578. Penalties. 1. (a) A person who owns or operates a clinical\nlaboratory or blood bank, and who does not hold a valid permit issued\npursuant to the provisions of this title or who otherwise does not\ncomply with this title or the New York city health code is guilty of a\nm…

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

§ 580. Construction. 1. Nothing in this title shall be construed as\naffecting the educational program of any college or university or any\nlegally chartered school approved by the department of education which\nprogram is conducted for the training of its students.\n 2. Nothing…

§ 581. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or\npart of this title shall be adjudged by any court of competent\njurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment shall not affect, impair, or\ninvalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation\nt…

§ 585. Definitions. Whenever used in this title:\n 1. "Health services purveyor" means any person, firm, partnership,\ngroup, association, corporation or professional corporation, or any\nagent, employee, fiduciary, employer or representative thereof,\nincluding but not limited …

§ 586. Payment for services. 1. It shall be unlawful for any purveyor\nof clinical laboratory services, directly or indirectly, through any\nperson, firm, corporation or association or its officers or agents, to\nbill or receive payment, reimbursement, compensation or fee from a…

§ 587. Prohibited practices. 1. No health services purveyor shall\nsolicit, receive, accept or agree to receive or accept any payment or\nother consideration in any form to the extent such payment or other\nconsideration is given for the referral of services or participate in\nt…

§ 588. Violations and penalties. 1. Any health services purveyor,\nclinical laboratory, or any agent, employee or fiduciary of a health\nservices purveyor or clinical laboratory who violates the provisions of\nsection five hundred eighty-six of this title, or any rule or regulat…

§ 600. State aid; general requirements. In order to be eligible for\nstate aid under this title, a municipality shall be required to do the\nfollowing in accordance with the provisions of this article:\n 1. submit an application to the department for state aid which is\napproved…

§ 601. Application for state aid. 1. The governing body of each\nmunicipality desiring to make application for state aid under this title\nshall annually, on such dates as may be fixed by the commissioner,\nsubmit an application for such aid.\n 2. The application shall be in suc…

§ 602. Core public health services. 1. To be eligible for state aid, a\nmunicipality must provide the following core public health services:\n (a) Family health, which shall include activities designed to reduce\nperinatal, infant and maternal mortality and morbidity and to prom…

§ 602-a. Community health assessment. 1. Every municipality shall\nsubmit to the department no more frequently than every two years, a\ncommunity health assessment.\n 2. The community health assessment shall be in such form as the\ncommissioner shall prescribe, and shall include…

§ 603. Core public health services; implementation. 1. In order to be\neligible for state aid under this title, each municipality shall\nadminister its core public health services in accordance with the\nstandards of performance established by the commissioner through rules\nand…

§ 604. Supervision of public health programs. In order to be eligible\nfor state aid, under this title, each municipality shall employ a\nfull-time local commissioner of health or public health director to\nsupervise the provision of public health services for that municipality,…

§ 605. State aid; amount of reimbursement. 1. A state aid base grant\nshall be reimbursed to municipalities for the core public health\nservices identified in section six hundred two of this title, in an\namount of the greater of one dollar and thirty cents per capita, for\neach…

§ 606. Assessment of fees; third-party coverage or indemnification. 1.\nAssessment of fees by municipalities. Each municipality shall establish\na schedule of fees for public health services provided by the\nmunicipality and shall make every reasonable effort to collect such\nfe…

§ 607. Supplemental health services grants. 1. There shall be\nestablished within the special revenue fund-other a local public health\nservices program account. All revenues derived from fees collected by\nthe department pursuant to subdivision two of section six hundred six of…

§ 608. State aid; children and youth with special health care needs\nsupport services. 1. Whenever the commissioner of health of any county\nor part-county health district or, in a county lacking a county or\npart-county health district, the medical director of the children and\…

§ 609. State aid; laboratories. 1. Where a laboratory shall have been\nor is hereafter established pursuant to article five of this chapter,\nthe state, through the legislature and within the limits to be\nprescribed by the commissioner, shall provide aid at a per centum,\ndeter…

§ 613. State aid; immunization. 1. (a) The commissioner shall develop\nand supervise the execution of a program of immunization, surveillance\nand testing, to raise to the highest reasonable level the immunity of\nthe children of the state against communicable diseases including…

§ 614. Definitions. The following terms shall have the following\nmeanings:\n 1. "County", any county of the state other than one wholly embraced\nwithin a city or any combinations of counties or parts of a county that\nconstitutes a health district.\n 2. "City", each city of th…

§ 615. State aid; form. The appropriations made or to be made for the\npurposes of carrying out the provisions of this article shall be\navailable, in accordance with certificates of approval issued or to be\nissued by the director of the budget, to the commissioner for the\npay…

§ 616. Limitations on state aid. 1. The total amount of state aid\nprovided pursuant to this article shall be limited to the amount of the\nannual appropriation made by the legislature. In no event, however,\nshall such state aid be less than an amount to provide the full base\n…

§ 617. Maintenance of effort. Such amount of state aid provided will\nbe used to support and to the extent practicable, to increase the level\nof funds that would otherwise be made available for such purposes and\nnot to supplant the amount to be provided by the municipalities. …

§ 618. Performance and accountability. The commissioner shall\nestablish, in consultation with the municipalities, uniform statewide\nperformance standards for the services funded pursuant to this article;\nprovided, however, the commissioner may modify a specific standard for a…

§ 619. Commissioner; regulatory powers. The commissioner shall adopt\nregulations to effectuate the provisions and purposes of this article,\nincluding, but not limited to:\n 1. setting standards of performance for the provision of core public\nhealth services which shall includ…

§ 619-a. Incentive standards of performance. 1. The commissioner may\nestablish statewide incentive performance standards for the delivery of\ncore public health services.\n 2. Within amounts appropriated, and subject to the approval of the\ndirector of the budget, the commissio…

§ 620. Public health services program audit recoveries. All monies\nreceived or recovered by the department after the effective date of this\nsection as a result of any audit exception assessed against the state\naid reimbursement to a municipality under this article shall be\nd…

§ 621. State aid; public health emergencies. If the state commissioner\nor a county health department or part-county department of health or\nmunicipality, with the approval of the state commissioner, determines\nthat there is an imminent threat to public health, the department …

§ 695. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as\nthe "rape crisis intervention and prevention act of two thousand".\n

§ 695-a. Definitions. As used in this article:\n 1. "Rape crisis intervention and prevention program" means any program\nwhich has been approved by the department offering counseling and\nassistance to clients concerning sex offenses, sexual abuse, or incest.\n 2. "Community sup…

§ 695-b. Authorization of programs. 1. The department is hereby\nauthorized to contract, within amounts appropriated, for the provision\nof rape crisis intervention and prevention programs as provided herein.\nRules, regulations and guidelines as shall be necessary or appropriat…

§ 695-c. Technical assistance. The department shall provide or arrange\nto provide technical assistance as requested and necessary to programs\nto develop appropriate services and train staff, improve coordination\nwith other appropriate support services, the criminal justice sy…

§ 695-e. Assistance of other agencies. To effectuate the purposes of\nthis article, the department may request from any department, board,\nbureau, commission or other agency of the state, and the same are\nauthorized to provide, such assistance, services and data as will enable…

§ 700. Federal aid; department to administer. 1. The department is\nhereby designated as the agency of the state to administer the\nprovisions of the federal social security act or any other act of the\ncongress which relate to maternal and child health services, the care\nand t…

§ 701. Federal aid; powers and duties of commissioner. The\ncommissioner is authorized and empowered:\n (a) to receive and disburse pursuant to this article the federal-aid\nmoneys allotted to the state by or pursuant to the federal social\nsecurity act or any other act of the c…

§ 702. Federal aid; custody and payment of funds. 1. The department of\ntaxation and finance is designated as custodian of all federal-aid funds\nallotted to the state for the purposes of this article by the United\nStates.\n 2. Such funds shall be payable only on the audit and …

§ 703. Federal aid; allotments to municipalities and local health\ndistricts. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or\nlocal law, the governing body of any municipal corporation or of any\nhealth district by a majority vote may authorize the proper officials…

§ 800. State health research council. There is hereby established in\nthe health department a state health research council. The council shall\nconsist of the commissioners of health, mental hygiene, environmental\nconservation, and education, the chancellor of the state univers…

§ 801. Organization; executive director. The council may organize into\nsuch organizational units as the members determine to be necessary. The\nchairman shall appoint an executive director for the council. The\ndepartment and any institute created by this chapter are authorized…

§ 802. Powers and duties. 1. The council shall have the power and duty\nto:\n a. identify strategic areas for health research;\n b. conduct ongoing surveys of the state allocation of health research\nsources;\n c. develop health research programs and establish priorities for suc…

§ 803. Gender-specific questions on grant applications. In order to\nobtain reliable and comprehensive data on the health needs of women as\nwell as to ensure that women's health needs are served, in developing\ngrant applications and consistent with the objectives and nature of…

§ 900. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as\nthe "primary care education and training act."\n

§ 901. Definitions. The following words or phrases as used in this\narticle shall have the following meanings:\n 1. "Continuity experience" means that site where a resident spends at\nleast twenty percent of his or her training providing primary care\nservices to a panel of pati…

§ 902. Grants for primary care undergraduate medical education. 1.\nThe commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of education,\nis authorized, within amounts available pursuant to subdivision\nnineteen-a of section twenty-eight hundred seven-c of this chapter, to\nma…

§ 903. Primary care physician loan repayment program. 1. The\ncommissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of education and\nthe president of the higher education services corporation, is\nauthorized and directed to establish a physician loan repayment program\nto encour…

§ 904. Primary care practitioner scholarship program. 1. The\ncommissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of education and\nthe president of the higher education services corporation, is\nauthorized and directed to establish a primary care practitioner\nscholarship prog…

§ 905. Grants for primary care practitioner education. 1. The\ncommissioner in collaboration with the commissioner of education is\nauthorized, within amounts available pursuant to subdivision nineteen-a\nof section twenty-eight hundred seven-c of this chapter, to make grants\nt…

§ 906. Grants for minority participation in medical education. 1. The\ncommissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of education,\nwithin amounts available pursuant to subdivision nineteen-a of section\ntwenty-eight hundred seven-c and section twenty-eight hundred seven-…