Title PBH, Public Health

§ 2223. Tuberculosis; carelessness of patients; violation and penalty; duty of health officer. 1. Any person having tuberculosis who shall dispose of his sputum, saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion so as to cause offense or danger to any person or persons occupying the…

§ 2224. Tuberculosis; false reports; violation and penalty. Any physician or person practicing as a physician who shall wilfully make any false statement concerning the name, age, sex, color, occupation, place where last employed if known, or address of any person reported as af…

§ 2225. Tuberculosis; recovery of patient; duty to report. Upon the recovery of any person having tuberculosis, it shall be the duty of the attending physician to make a report of this fact to the proper health officer, who shall record the same in the records of his office, and…

§ 2226. Tuberculosis; death or removal of patient from premises; notice to health officer. In case of the vacation of any apartment or premises by the death or removal therefrom of a person having tuberculosis, it shall be the duty of the attending physician, or if there be no s…

§ 2227. Tuberculosis; duty of public health council. The public health council shall include in the sanitary code regulations defining the methods and precautions to be observed in disinfecting, cleansing, or renovating premises under the provisions of this article.

§ 2229. Tuberculosis; vaccine and vaccination. 1. No vaccine shall be used for the purpose of inducing immunity against tuberculosis in humans in this state unless produced in accordance with regulations established or approved by the commissioner. 2. Vaccination with such appro…

§ 223. Public health and health planning council; compensation and expenses. The members of the public health and health planning council other than the commissioner of health shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed for expenses actually and nec…

§ 2230. Tuberculosis; violations and penalties. Any person violating any of the provisions of sections two thousand two hundred twenty to two thousand two hundred twenty-six, inclusive, of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be …

§ 224. Public health and health planning council; secretary, employees. The commissioner upon request of the public health and health planning council, shall designate an officer or employee of the department to act as secretary of the public health and health planning council, …

§ 224-b. Public health and health planning council; powers and duties; health care facilities, home care agencies and hospices. The public health and health planning council shall have such powers and duties as are set forth in this chapter, including the consideration of applic…

§ 225. Public health and health planning council; powers and duties; sanitary code. 1. The public health and health planning council shall, at the request of the commissioner, consider any matter relating to the preservation and improvement of public health, and may advise the c…

§ 226. Sanitary code; filing and publication. 1. Every regulation adopted by the public health and health planning council shall state the date on which it takes effect, and a copy thereof, duly signed by the secretary of the public health and health planning council, shall be f…

§ 227. Sanitary code; certified copy; evidence. The sanitary code may be read in evidence from the official compilation of codes, rules and regulations of the state of New York, or supplement thereto. To entitle any copy of the sanitary code, other than the official compilation …

§ 228. Sanitary code; application. 1. The provisions of the sanitary code, unless otherwise stated by the public health and health planning council, shall apply to and be effective in all portions of the state and shall supersede all local ordinances heretofore or hereafter enac…

§ 229. Sanitary code; violation; penalties. The provisions of the sanitary code shall have the force and effect of law and the non-compliance or non-conformance with any provision thereof shall constitute a violation punishable on conviction for a first offense by a fine not exc…

§ 23. Claim forms. A non-participating physician shall include a claim form for a third-party payor with a patient bill for health care services, other than a bill for the patient's co-payment, coinsurance or deductible.

§ 230. State board for professional medical conduct; proceedings. 1. A state board for professional medical conduct is hereby created in the department in matters of professional misconduct as defined in sections sixty-five hundred thirty and sixty-five hundred thirty-one of the…

* § 230-a. Penalties for professional misconduct. The penalties which may be imposed by the state board for professional medical conduct on a present or former licensee found guilty of professional misconduct under the definitions and proceedings prescribed in section two hundre…

* § 230-a. Infection control standards. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, including section sixty-five hundred thirty-two of the education law, the department shall promulgate rules or regulations describing scientifically accepted barrier precautions and infection contro…

§ 230-b. Disciplinary proceedings for physician's assistants and specialist's assistants. Disciplinary proceedings involving physician's assistants and specialist's assistants shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of section two hundred thirty of this title.

§ 230-c. Administrative review board for professional medical conduct. 1. There is hereby created an administrative review board for professional medical conduct for the purpose of reviewing determinations of committees on professional conduct of the state board for professional…

§ 230-d. Office-based surgery. 1. The following words or phrases, as used in this section shall have the following meanings: (a) "Accredited status" means the full accreditation by nationally-recognized accrediting agency(ies) determined by the commissioner. (b) "Adverse event" …

§ 230-e. Unauthorized pelvic examinations. For the purposes of this title, professional misconduct shall include pelvic examinations or supervising the performance of a pelvic examination in violation of subdivision seven of section twenty-five hundred four of this chapter.

§ 2304. Sexually transmitted diseases; treatment facilities; administration. 1. It shall be the responsibility of each board of health of a health district to provide adequate facilities for the diagnosis and treatment of persons living within its jurisdiction who are suspected …

§ 2305. Sexually transmitted diseases; treatment by licensed physician or staff physician of a hospital; prescriptions. 1. No person, other than a licensed physician, or, in a hospital, a staff physician, shall diagnose, treat or prescribe for a person who is infected with a sex…

§ 2306. Sexually transmitted diseases; reports and information, confidential. All reports or information secured by a board of health or health officer under the provisions of this article shall be confidential except in so far as is necessary to carry out the purposes of this a…

§ 2307. Venereal disease; person knowing himself to be infected. Any person who, knowing himself or herself to be infected with an infectious venereal disease, has sexual intercourse with another shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 2308. Sexually transmitted disease; pregnant persons; blood test for syphilis. 1. Every physician or other authorized practitioner attending pregnant persons in the state shall in the case of every person so attended take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such person a…

§ 2308-a. Sexually transmitted diseases; tests for sexually transmitted diseases. 1. The administrative officer or other person in charge of a clinic or other facility providing gynecological, obstetrical, genito-urological, contraceptive, sterilization or termination of pregnan…

* § 231. New York state health service corps. 1. The commissioner shall establish within the department the New York state health service corps (hereinafter "corps"). The commissioner shall have central responsibility for administering the provisions of this title with respect t…

§ 2311. Sexually transmitted disease list. The commissioner shall promulgate a list of sexually transmitted diseases, such as gonorrhea and syphilis, for the purposes of this article. The commissioner, in determining the diseases to be included in such list, shall consider those…

§ 2312. Expedited partner therapy for chlamydia trachomatis infection and other sexually transmitted infections. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law and consistent with section two thousand three hundred five of this title, a health care practitioner (who is authorized…

* § 232. Powers and duties. The commissioner shall, in consultation with the commissioners of education, correctional services, mental health, mental retardation and developmental disabilities and the president of the civil service commission, have the following powers and dutie…

§ 2320. Houses of prostitution; equipment; nuisance. 1. Whoever shall erect, establish, continue, maintain, use, own, or lease any building, erection, or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution is guilty of maintaining a nuisance. 2. The building, er…

§ 2321. Houses of prostitution; injunction; jurisdiction, complaint and parties to the action. 1. When a nuisance is kept, maintained, or exists, as defined in this article, the district attorney, or any citizen of the county, or any society, association, or body incorporated un…

§ 2322. Houses of prostitution; injunction; service of summons. The summons in an action provided by section two thousand three hundred twenty-one of this chapter, may be served as in a civil action except that, in case service by publication is ordered, the mailing of a copy of…

§ 2323. Houses of prostitution; injunction; temporary restraining order; service. 1. Where a permanent or temporary injunction is prayed for, the court, or judge in vacation, on the application of the plaintiff, may issue an ex parte restraining order, restraining the defendants…

§ 2324. Houses of prostitution; injunction; trial of action. 1. The action for a permanent injunction instituted pursuant to this article, shall be triable at the first term of the supreme court after due and timely notice has been served as in other actions. 2. If the complaint…

§ 2324-a. Presumptive evidence. For the purposes of this title, two or more convictions of any person or persons had, within a period of one year, for any of the offenses described in section 230.00, 230.05, 230.06, 230.08, 230.11, 230.12, 230.13, 230.20, 230.25, 230.30, 230.32 …

§ 2325. Houses of prostitution; injunction; withdrawal of complaint. 1. If the complaint in an action instituted pursuant to the provisions of this article, is filed by any person or association, it shall not be dismissed except upon a sworn statement made by the complainant and…

§ 2326. Houses of prostitution; injunction; dismissal; costs against plaintiff. If an action instituted pursuant to the provisions of this article, is brought by any person or association and the court finds there were not reasonable grounds or cause for said action the costs ma…

§ 2327. Houses of prostitution; injunction; scope; violation. 1. When an injunction has been granted pursuant to the provisions of this article, it shall be binding on each defendant throughout the state, and any violation of the provisions of the injunction or temporary restrai…

§ 2328. Houses of prostitution; injunction; penalty for violation. A party found guilty of contempt under the provisions of this article shall be punished by a fine of not less than three hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not less than three nor m…

§ 2329. Houses of prostitution; injunction; order of abatement; sale and removal of property; fees. 1. If the existence of the nuisance be admitted or established in an action as provided in this article, or in a criminal proceeding in any court, an order of abatement shall be e…

* § 233. New York state health service corps scholarship and\nfellowship program. 1. (a) New York state health service corps\nscholarships and fellowships for health corps professionals shall be\nawarded, within amounts appropriated, on a competitive basis, as\ndetermined by the…

§ 2330. Houses of prostitution; abatement; breaking, entering or using closed building. If any person shall break and enter, or use a building, erection, or place directed to be closed pursuant to the provisions of this article, he shall be punished as for contempt as provided i…

§ 2331. Houses of prostitution; abatement; proceeds. 1. All moneys collected under the provisions of sections two thousand three hundred twenty to two thousand three hundred thirty-four, inclusive, of this chapter, shall be paid to the county treasurer. 2. The proceeds of the sa…

§ 2332. Houses of prostitution; abatement; release of property on filing bond. 1. If the owner of the premises in which a nuisance, as defined in this article, has been maintained appears and pays all costs of the proceeding and files a bond with sureties to be approved by the c…

§ 2333. Houses of prostitution; injunction proceedings; witnesses and officers fees. In any action brought to enjoin and abate a nuisance, as defined in this article, no officer or witness shall be entitled to receive in advance fees for service or attendance.

§ 2334. Houses of prostitution; criminal proceedings; duty of district attorney. 1. In case the existence of a nuisance as defined in this article, is established, in a criminal action in a court other than the supreme court it shall be the duty of the district attorney to proce…