Title PBH, Public Health

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

§ 2014. Duties of the commissioner. The commissioner may promulgate\nany regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article,\nincluding but not limited to:\n 1. Establishing the form, content, and manner by which providers shall\nreport Parkinson's disease informa…

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

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

§ 2017. Establishment of registry. 1. The department shall establish a\nfrontotemporal degeneration registry for the collection of information\non the rate of clinical diagnoses of FTD disorders. The department shall\nconsult with FTD disorders experts, including neurologists, p…

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

§ 2019. Duties of the commissioner. The commissioner may promulgate\nany regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article,\nincluding but not limited to:\n 1. establishing the form, content, and manner by which providers shall\nreport FTD disorders information i…

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

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

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

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

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

§ 2024. Duties of the commissioner. The commissioner may promulgate\nany regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this article,\nincluding but not limited to:\n 1. Establishing the form, content, and manner by which providers shall\nreport ALS and MND information int…

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

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

§ 205. Commissioner; compensation and expenses. The commissioner\nshall receive an annual salary not to exceed an amount appropriated\ntherefor by the legislature and his expenses actually and necessarily\nincurred in the performance of his official duties, unless otherwise\npro…

§ 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\nprohibited. 1. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for the\ngoverning body of a hospital\n a. To deny to or to withhold from a physician, dentist or podiatrist\nstaff membership or professional pr…

§ 206-b. Special requirements with respect to Lyme disease diagnosis.\n1. Within thirty days after the effective date of this section, the\ncommissioner shall, in writing, order every physician practicing in\nSuffolk, Westchester and Nassau counties to review the medical records…

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

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

§ 208. Deputy commissioners; appointment; qualifications and duties.\n1. The commissioner shall appoint and at pleasure remove a first deputy\ncommissioner and such other deputy commissioners as he shall deem\nnecessary for the proper organization and general classification of t…

§ 209. Deputy commissioners; compensation. The commissioner shall fix\nthe compensation of deputy commissioners within the amount appropriated\ntherefor by the legislature.\n

§ 210. Officers and employees; appointment. The commissioner shall\nappoint such assistant commissioners, officers and other assistants as\nare necessary for the proper performance of the powers and duties of the\ndepartment.\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 2108. Communicable diseases; epidemic among Indians; state charges.\n1. Whenever an epidemic of a communicable disease shall prevail among\nthe Indians of any nation, tribe or band in this state, the public\nwelfare official of the welfare district in which the reservation of\…

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

§ 211. Training. The commissioner may, within the appropriation\nallowed therefor, provide suitable training for personnel engaged in or\nto be engaged in the maintenance or improvement of public health in the\nstate.\n

§ 211-a. Continuation of salaries of employees of the department while\nreceiving training. The commissioner may, within the amounts\nappropriated therefor, continue the salaries, in full or in part, of\nemployees of the department and the institutions in the department while\ns…

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

§ 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\notherwise provided in subdivisions two, three, four and five of this\nsection, no person under three years of age and no woman who knows she\nis pregnant shall be vaccinated with a vaccine that contains more…

§ 2120. Communicable diseases; control of dangerous and careless\npatients; commitment. 1. Whenever a complaint is made by a physician to\na health officer that any person is afflicted with a communicable\ndisease or is a carrier of typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria or\not…

§ 2121. Communicable diseases; duty of committed patients; discipline.\n1. Every person committed under the provisions of this article shall\nobserve all the rules and regulations of the hospital or institution to\nwhich he is committed.\n 2. Any person so committed who neglects…

§ 2122. Communicable diseases; disorderly committed patients;\ncommitment to penal institution. 1. Any person who has been committed to\na hospital or institution pursuant to the provisions of section two\nthousand one hundred twenty of this chapter, who thereafter wilfully\nvio…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 2134. Disclosure of medical information. Disclosure of medical\ninformation obtained in accordance with this title, including a\ndiagnosis of HIV infection, may be made only to (a) the protected\nindividual, (b) the municipal health commissioner or district health\nofficer if …

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