Title PBH, Public Health

§ 1300. Nuisances; general powers of commissioner. 1. The commissioner shall have all necessary powers to make investigations and examinations into nuisances, or questions affecting the security of life and health in any locality. 2. The commissioner may from time to time employ…

§ 1300-a. Putting noisome or unwholesome substances or maintaining noisome business on or near highway. A person, who deposits, leaves or keeps, on or near a highway or route of public travel, either on the land or on the water, any noisome or unwholesome substance, or establish…

§ 1300-b. Throwing gas tar or refuse into public waters. A person, who throws or deposits gas tar, or the refuse of a gas house or gas factory, or offal, refuse, or any other noxious, offensive, or poisonous substance into any public waters, or into any sewer or stream running o…

§ 1300-c. Farming activities. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the agricultural activities conducted on a farm, as defined in section six hundred seventy-one of the labor law, shall not be considered a private nuisance, provided such agricultural activities were comme…

§ 1301. Nuisances; examination and abatement by order of governor; expenses. 1. Whenever required by the governor, the commissioner shall make an examination concerning nuisances or questions affecting the security of life and health in any locality, and shall report the results…

§ 1302. Nuisances; local boards of health; duty to assist commissioner. 1. Whenever requested by the commissioner, the board of health of any health district may appoint one of its members to act with and assist the commissioner during the investigation or examination of any nui…

§ 1303. Nuisances; local boards of health; general powers and duties. 1. Every local board of health and local health officer shall receive and examine into all complaints made by any inhabitant concerning nuisances, or causes of danger or injury to life and health within the he…

§ 1304. Nuisances; local health officers; general powers. The local health officer of a health district having no local board of health and each county health commissioner shall have authority equal to a local board of health to investigate and abate public nuisances which may a…

§ 1305. Nuisances; abatement by local boards of health. 1. The owners, agents and occupants of any premises shall permit sanitary examinations and inspections to be made pursuant to the provisions of this article. 2. If the owner or occupant of any premises whereon any nuisance …

§ 1306. Nuisances; abatement expenses. 1. The expense of suppression or removal of a nuisance or conditions detrimental to health shall be paid by the owner or occupant of the premises, or by the person who caused or maintained such nuisance or other matters, and the board of he…

§ 1307. Nuisances; abatement expenses; lien and execution. 1. If execution upon a judgment for the recovery of the expense of the suppression or removal of a nuisance or other matter, pursuant to an order or regulation of any local board of health is returned wholly or in part u…

§ 1308. Powers and duties of local boards of health. It shall be the duty of local boards of health to enforce the public health law, the state sanitary code and local sanitary codes whether promulgated by the county or any of the political subdivisions within said county. A loc…

§ 1309. City of New York; exceptions. The provisions of sections one thousand three hundred three to one thousand three hundred seven of this chapter, inclusive, shall not apply to the city of New York.

§ 1310. Removal of canine wastes in cities with a population of four hundred thousand or more persons and in the cities of Yonkers and Albany. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, rule or regulation, in cities with a population of four hundred thousand or more persons …

§ 1311. Hand washing facilities at certain public establishments featuring animals. 1. All public establishments including, but not limited to, carnivals, fairs and amusement parks, as such terms are defined in section eight hundred seventy-c of the labor law, farms, and farmers…

§ 1320. Noxious weeds and growths; declaration of nuisance. 1. Whenever in any health district there shall be growing on any property therein any ragweed or other species of weed, plant or growth which is noxious or detrimental to the public health, or the seed, pollen or other …

§ 1321. Noxious weeds and growths; notice to abate; enforcement. 1. In addition to the mode of service of any notice or order of any local board of health authorized by any other section of this chapter, and during the period or season when a particular and imminent danger to pu…

§ 1325. Tenement houses in cities; power of commissioner. 1. The commissioner shall have power to examine into the enforcement of the laws relating to tenement houses in any city. 2. Whenever required by the governor, the commissioner shall make such an examination and shall rep…

§ 1330. Labor camps; violations; notice; injunction; administrative proceedings. 1. When it appears to an officer that there has been a violation of the public health law or sanitary code at or in relation to any labor camp and such violation continues two days after written not…

§ 1335. Certain businesses prohibited; application. 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to engage in or carry on the business of fat rendering, boneboiling or the manufacture of fertilizers or any business as a public nuisance within the corporate limits of any incorporated…

§ 1336. Certain businesses prohibited; enforcement; violation. 1. All departments of health or the commissioner or commissioners thereof in any incorporated city of this state shall have power to enforce the provisions of section thirteen hundred thirty-five of this chapter. 2. …

§ 1340. Bathing places; sanitary requirements. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain, either as owner or lessee, any bathing establishment of any kind, in this state, for the accommodation of persons, for pay, or any consideration, at a point less than five hundred …

§ 1341. Bathing places; safety requirements; ropes and life preservers. 1. (a) It shall be the duty of every person maintaining, as owner or lessee, any bathing establishment of any kind along the seashore of this state for the accommodation of persons for pay, to provide, for t…

§ 1342. Bathing places; violations; penalties; enforcement. 1. Any person violating any of the provisions of section thirteen hundred forty-one of this chapter, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars to be recovered by t…

§ 1345. Hotel sanitation; sewage; ventilation. Every hotel shall be well drained and ventilated and every hotel connected with a cesspool or located in any municipality having a sewer system shall be well ventilated, drained, plumbed and connected according to sanitary principle…

§ 1346. Hotel sanitation; bedding; sheets, towels, drinking glasses, silverware and flatware. 1. Every hotel shall furnish each guest with clean linen or cotton individual towels in each room occupied by such guest, and also in the public lavatories and washrooms of such hotel, …

§ 1347. Hotel sanitation; enforcement; violations. 1. All departments and boards of health and the commissioner or commissioners thereof shall have the power to enforce the provisions of sections thirteen hundred forty-five to thirteen hundred forty-seven, inclusive, of this cha…

§ 1348. Hotel sanitation; application of article. The provisions of sections thirteen hundred forty-five to thirteen hundred forty-seven, inclusive, of this chapter, shall not apply to cities having a population of one million inhabitants or over.

§ 1350. Food places; powers of the commissioner. 1. The commissioner shall have full power and authority to inspect and supervise all public places in this state in which food is prepared, sold or served. 2. The commissioner may appoint and designate, from time to time, persons …

§ 1351. Food places; duty to permit inspections. Every owner, operator, lessor, lessee or person in charge of any hotel, restaurant, dining room, dining car, drug store, soda fountain, steamboat or other place engaged in the preparation, sale or service of food for and to the ge…

§ 1352. Food places; sanitary requirements. 1. A person or corporation engaged in the preparation and sale of food in any hotel, public restaurant, public dining room, dining car, drug store, soda fountain, steamboat or in any other place where food is prepared, sold or served f…

§ 1352-a. Food places; toilet facilities. 1. A person or corporation operating an establishment with a seating capacity of twenty or more wherein food is sold for consumption on the premises shall provide appropriately identified and maintained public toilet facilities except th…

§ 1352-b. Public eating establishments; first aid instructions concerning food lodged in throat; liability. 1. Definitions. For purposes of this section: a. "Public eating establishment" shall mean a cafeteria or lunchroom located in a school or educational institution and a res…

§ 1352-c. Ice cream or other frozen desserts made with liquor, wine, beer or cider. No person shall sell at retail individual servings of ice cream or other frozen desserts made with liquor, wine, beer or cider bearing or containing more than one-half of one percent but not more…

§ 1352-d. Public food service establishment inspection results. 1. (a) The department shall make available and prominently post on its website all public food service establishment inspection results for the most recent three years for which data is available, which shall includ…

§ 1352-e. Companion dogs at food service establishments. 1. Companion dogs under the control of a person may be allowed in an outdoor dining area at a food service establishment if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (a) the owner of the food facility elects to allow …

§ 1353. Food places; violations; penalties. 1. Any person or corporation, or officer thereof, violating any of the provisions of sections thirteen hundred fifty to thirteen hundred fifty-three, inclusive, of this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 2. The conviction of a …

§ 1354. Contracts for meat inspection. When a board of health of a county or part county health district or a city, or a public health committee of a county has made application to the commissioner for approval of a meat inspection program and providing such application has been…

§ 1355. Food service safety and sanitation training. 1. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations (a) establishing food service safety and sanitation training programs and providing standards therefor or (b) providing for the approval of such programs to be adminis…

§ 1356. Food allergies and intolerances notice in food service establishments and online food ordering services. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section: (a) "Food service establishment" shall mean a restaurant or catering hall where food is prepared and served either o…

* § 1357. Allergen labeling for prepackaged foods. 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Prepackaged food" means food that is prepared, prepacked and offered or sold to customers on the same premises. Prepackaged food does not in…

* § 1360. Location and disposition of radioactive gold jewelry. 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to establish a program, which shall include the use of such investigations and personnel as may be necessary, to identify gold jewelry which has been contaminate…

§ 1370. Definitions. When used in this title, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: 1. "Dwelling" means a building or structure or portion thereof, including the property occupied by and appurtenant to s…

§ 1370-a. Lead poisoning prevention program. 1. The department shall establish a lead poisoning prevention program. This program shall be responsible for establishing and coordinating activities to prevent lead poisoning and to minimize risk of exposure to lead. The department s…

§ 1370-b. Advisory council on lead poisoning prevention. 1. The New York state advisory council on lead poisoning prevention is hereby established in the department, to consist of the following, or their designees: the commissioner; the commissioner of labor; the commissioner of…

§ 1370-c. Screening by health care providers. 1. The department is authorized to promulgate regulations establishing the means by which and the intervals at which children and pregnant women shall be screened for elevated lead levels. The department is also authorized to require…

§ 1370-d. Lead screening of child care, pre-school, pre-kindergarten or kindergarten enrollees. 1. Except as provided pursuant to regulations of the department, each child care provider, public and private nursery school, pre-school, and pre-kindergarten or kindergarten licensed…

§ 1370-e. Reporting lead exposure levels. 1. Every physician or authorized practitioner shall give notice of elevated lead levels as specified by the commissioner pursuant to regulation, to the health officer of the health district wherein the patient resides, except as otherwis…

§ 1371. Manufacture and sale of lead painted toys and furniture. 1. No person shall manufacture, sell or hold for sale a children's toy or children's furniture having paint or other similar surface-coating material thereon containing more than .06 of one per centum of metallic l…

§ 1372. Use of leaded paint. No person shall apply paint or other similar surface-coating material containing more than .06 of one per centum of metallic lead based on the total weight of the contained solids or dried paint film to any interior surface, window sill, window frame…