Title PBH, Public Health

§ 2013. Duties of the department. 1. Parkinson's disease reports and data shall be maintained by the department in a manner suitable for research purposes, and shall be made available to persons as set forth in section two thousand twelve of this article. 2. All information coll…

§ 2014. Duties of the commissioner. The commissioner may promulgate any regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article, including but not limited to: 1. Establishing the form, content, and manner by which providers shall report Parkinson's disease information …

* § 2015. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Frontotemporal degeneration disorders" or "FTD disorders" means a group of clinical disorders caused by progressive nerve cell loss in the brain's frontal lobes and/or temp…

§ 2016. Duty to report. 1. Every physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant and general hospital that diagnoses or is treating a patient diagnosed with FTD disorder shall give notice no later than one hundred eighty days of every case of FTD disorders coming under their …

§ 2017. Establishment of registry. 1. The department shall establish a frontotemporal degeneration registry for the collection of information on the rate of clinical diagnoses of FTD disorders. The department shall consult with FTD disorders experts, including neurologists, pati…

§ 2018. Duties of the department. 1. FTD disorders reports and data shall be maintained by the department in a manner suitable for research purposes, and shall be made available to persons as set forth in section two thousand seventeen of this article. 2. All information collect…

§ 2019. Duties of the commissioner. The commissioner may promulgate any regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article, including but not limited to: 1. establishing the form, content, and manner by which providers shall report FTD disorders information into t…

§ 202. Divisions. 1. There shall be in the department such divisions, bureaus and other units as the commissioner from time to time may determine to be necessary and the director of the budget shall approve. 2. The commissioner may, from time to time, abolish, transfer and conso…

§ 2020. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "ALS" means amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurological disorder that affects motor neurons, the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movem…

§ 2021. Duty to report. 1. Every physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant and general hospital that diagnoses or is treating a patient diagnosed with ALS or MND shall give notice no later than one hundred eighty days of each case of ALS or MND coming under their care, …

§ 2022. Establishment of registry. 1. The department shall establish an ALS and MND registry for the collection of information on the incidence and prevalence of ALS and MND. The department may consult with ALS and MND experts, including neurologists, patients living with ALS an…

§ 2023. Duties of the department. 1. ALS and MND reports and data shall be maintained by the department in a manner suitable for research purposes and shall be made available to people as set forth in section two thousand twenty-two of this article. 2. All information collection…

§ 2024. Duties of the commissioner. The commissioner may promulgate any regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article, including but not limited to: 1. Establishing the form, content, and manner by which providers shall report ALS and MND information into the…

§ 203. Commissioner; qualifications. The commissioner shall be a physician, a graduate of an incorporated medical college, of at least ten years' experience in the actual practice of his profession, and of skill and experience in public health duties and sanitary science.

§ 204. Commissioner; appointment; term of office. 1. The commissioner shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate and shall hold office until the end of the term of the governor by whom he was appointed and until his successor is appointe…

§ 205. Commissioner; compensation and expenses. The commissioner shall receive an annual salary not to exceed an amount appropriated therefor by the legislature and his expenses actually and necessarily incurred in the performance of his official duties, unless otherwise provide…

§ 206. Commissioner; general powers and duties. 1. The commissioner\nshall:\n (a) take cognizance of the interests of health and life of the people\nof the state, and of all matters pertaining thereto and exercise the\nfunctions, powers and duties of the department prescribed by…

§ 206-a. Discrimination in hospital staff appointments and privileges prohibited. 1. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for the governing body of a hospital a. To deny to or to withhold from a physician, dentist or podiatrist staff membership or professional privile…

§ 206-b. Special requirements with respect to Lyme disease diagnosis. 1. Within thirty days after the effective date of this section, the commissioner shall, in writing, order every physician practicing in Suffolk, Westchester and Nassau counties to review the medical records of…

§ 207. Health care and wellness education and outreach program. 1. There is hereby created within the department the health care and wellness education and outreach program. The department may conduct education and outreach programs for consumers, patients, educators, including …

§ 207-a. Tick-borne diseases and blood-borne pathogen impact study. 1. The department, in conjunction with the commissioner of mental health, shall issue a report examining the mental health impacts of tick-borne diseases and blood-borne pathogens on mental illness rates in ende…

§ 208. Deputy commissioners; appointment; qualifications and duties. 1. The commissioner shall appoint and at pleasure remove a first deputy commissioner and such other deputy commissioners as he shall deem necessary for the proper organization and general classification of the …

§ 209. Deputy commissioners; compensation. The commissioner shall fix the compensation of deputy commissioners within the amount appropriated therefor by the legislature.

§ 210. Officers and employees; appointment. The commissioner shall appoint such assistant commissioners, officers and other assistants as are necessary for the proper performance of the powers and duties of the department.

§ 2100. Communicable diseases; local boards of health and health officers; powers and duties. 1. Every local board of health and every health officer shall guard against the introduction of such communicable diseases as are designated in the sanitary code, by the exercise of pro…

§ 2101. Communicable diseases; physicians and institutions; duty to report. 1. Every physician shall immediately give notice of every case of communicable disease required by the department to be reported to it, to the health officer of the local health district where such disea…

§ 2102. Communicable diseases; laboratory reports and records. 1. Whenever any laboratory examination discloses evidence of communicable disease, the results of such examination together with all required pertinent facts, shall be immediately reported by the person in charge of …

§ 2103. Communicable diseases; local health officers; duty to report. Every local health officer shall report promptly to the department, all cases of such communicable diseases as may be required by the department to be reported to it. In lieu of the original reports, the healt…

§ 2104. Communicable diseases; municipalities within a county or part-county health district; duty to report. 1. The health officer of each city, village, town and consolidated health district included as part of any county or part-county health district, shall transmit daily al…

§ 2105. Communicable diseases; state institutions; duty to report; duty of commissioner. 1. It shall be the duty of the director or person in charge of each state institution to report immediately an outbreak of a communicable disease in such institution to the commissioner and …

§ 2106. Communicable diseases; almshouses; removal of inmates. If a communicable disease exists in any home operated by a public welfare district or in the vicinity thereof, and the physician thereof shall certify that such disease is likely to endanger the health of the inmates…

§ 2108. Communicable diseases; epidemic among Indians; state charges. 1. Whenever an epidemic of a communicable disease shall prevail among the Indians of any nation, tribe or band in this state, the public welfare official of the welfare district in which the reservation of suc…

§ 2109. Communicable diseases; municipal hospitals for; establishment, inspection and regulation. 1. The commissioner shall from time to time submit to the authorities of the several municipalities or counties of the state such recommendations as he may consider necessary as to …

§ 211. Training. The commissioner may, within the appropriation allowed therefor, provide suitable training for personnel engaged in or to be engaged in the maintenance or improvement of public health in the state.

§ 211-a. Continuation of salaries of employees of the department while receiving training. The commissioner may, within the amounts appropriated therefor, continue the salaries, in full or in part, of employees of the department and the institutions in the department while such …

§ 2110. City of New York; exceptions. The provisions of sections two thousand one hundred to two thousand one hundred eight of this chapter, inclusive, shall not apply to the city of New York.

§ 2111. Disease management demonstration programs. 1. The department\nmay establish disease management demonstration programs through a\nrequest for proposals process to enhance the quality and\ncost-effectiveness of care rendered to medicaid-eligible persons with\nchronic healt…

§ 2112. Immunizations; prohibition on the use of mercury. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions two, three, four and five of this section, no person under three years of age and no woman who knows she is pregnant shall be vaccinated with a vaccine that contains more th…

§ 2120. Communicable diseases; control of dangerous and careless patients; commitment. 1. Whenever a complaint is made by a physician to a health officer that any person is afflicted with a communicable disease or is a carrier of typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria or other …

§ 2121. Communicable diseases; duty of committed patients; discipline. 1. Every person committed under the provisions of this article shall observe all the rules and regulations of the hospital or institution to which he is committed. 2. Any person so committed who neglects or r…

§ 2122. Communicable diseases; disorderly committed patients; commitment to penal institution. 1. Any person who has been committed to a hospital or institution pursuant to the provisions of section two thousand one hundred twenty of this chapter, who thereafter wilfully violate…

§ 2123. Communicable diseases; discharge of committed patient; duty to report. 1. The chief medical officer of the hospital or other institution to which any person who has been committed pursuant to the provisions of section two thousand one hundred twenty of this chapter upon …

§ 2124. Communicable diseases; appeal by committed patient. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to prohibit any person committed to any institution pursuant to its provisions from appealing to any court having jurisdiction, for a review of the evidence on which …

§ 2125. City of New York; exceptions. The provisions of sections two thousand one hundred twenty to two thousand one hundred twenty-four of this chapter, inclusive, shall not apply to the city of New York.

§ 2130. AIDS and HIV infection; duty to report. 1. Every physician or other person authorized by law to order diagnostic tests or make a medical diagnosis, or any laboratory performing such tests shall immediately (a) upon determination that a person is infected with human immun…

§ 2131. Municipal health commissioner; duty to report. If any contact resides in a county or district other than the one where the protected individual is found, the health officer receiving the report shall refer the contact report to the health officer in the county or distric…

§ 2132. Reporting of HIV infection after death. If a coroner, pathologist, medical examiner, or other person qualified to conduct an examination of a deceased person discovers that at the time of death the individual was afflicted with AIDS, HIV related illness or HIV infection,…

§ 2133. Contact tracing of cases of AIDS, HIV related illness or HIV infection. 1. Every municipal health commissioner or the department's district health officer, upon determination that such reported case or, any other known case of HIV infection merits contact tracing in orde…

§ 2134. Disclosure of medical information. Disclosure of medical information obtained in accordance with this title, including a diagnosis of HIV infection, may be made only to (a) the protected individual, (b) the municipal health commissioner or district health officer if such…

§ 2135. Confidentiality. All reports or information secured by the department, municipal health commissioner or district health officer under the provisions of this title shall be confidential except: (a) in so far as is necessary to carry out the provisions of this title; (b) w…