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N.Y. Public Health Law § 251 Powers and duties
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§ 251. Powers and duties. The spinal cord injury research board created pursuant to section two hundred fifty of this title shall: 1. Formulate policies and procedures necessary to carry out the provisions of this title; 2. Solicit, receive, and review applications from public a…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2510 Definitions
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§ 2510. Definitions. For the purpose of this title, unless the context\nclearly requires otherwise:\n 1. "Applicant" means an eligible organization which submits a proposal\nunder subdivision six of section two thousand five hundred eleven of\nthis title.\n 1-a. "Applicant for i…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2511 Child health insurance plan 1
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§ 2511. Child health insurance plan 1. (a) The commissioner, in\nconsultation with the superintendent, shall establish a program to the\nextent of funds available therefor through contractual arrangements with\napproved organizations to provide covered health care services cover…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2515 Definitions
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§ 2515. Definitions. For the purposes of this title the following definitions shall apply: 1. "Eligible adolescent" means a person aged twenty-one or under who is at risk of becoming a parent, is pregnant, or is a parent. 2. "Services for eligible adolescents" means those servic…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2515-A Administration
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§ 2515-a. Administration. 1. The department is authorized to request and receive community service project plans, as defined in section twenty-five hundred fifteen-b of this title. Such projects shall be limited to a twelve month duration but may, with the approval of such depar…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2515-B Community service project plans
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§ 2515-b. Community service project plans. 1. Plans for community service projects may be submitted to the department by not-for-profit agencies or by county or municipal governments, or any subdivision thereof. Such plan shall: (a) include a statement of project goals and objec…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2515-C Use of funds
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§ 2515-c. Use of funds. 1. Subject to amounts made available therefor, such funds shall be made available for up to seventy-five percent of approved community service project plan expenditures after first deducting therefrom any federal or other state funds received or to be rec…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2522 Programs; powers of the commissioner
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§ 2522. Programs; powers of the commissioner. In order to promote comprehensive prenatal care, the commissioner is authorized to provide funds, including the awarding of grants to not-for-profit community-based organizations, local health departments, public education organizati…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2530 Nurse-family partnership
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§ 2530. Nurse-family partnership. 1. The commissioner is authorized to establish, subject to federal financial participation and within amounts appropriated therefor, the nurse-family partnership program, a Medicaid program subject to title eleven of article five of the social s…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2530-A Payment for prenatal care special services
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§ 2530-a. Payment for prenatal care special services. 1. The commissioner is authorized to establish a program to provide services under title eleven or title eleven-D of article five of the social services law, for early and continuous prenatal care for pregnant women who are e…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2531 Children and recovering mothers program
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§ 2531. Children and recovering mothers program. Subject to appropriation, the commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services, is authorized to establish the children and recovering mothers program, a program aimed at providing hea…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2532 Workgroup
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§ 2532. Workgroup. The commissioner, in conjunction with the commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services, shall convene a workgroup of stakeholders, including but not limited to, hospitals, local health departments, obstetricians, midwives, pediatricians, and substan…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2540 Establishment of early intervention program
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§ 2540. Establishment of early intervention program. There is established an early intervention program under the administration of the commissioner.
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2541 Definitions
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§ 2541. Definitions. As used in this title the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: 1. "Children at risk" means children who may experience a disability because of medical, biological or environmental factors which may…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2542 Comprehensive child find system and public awareness program
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§ 2542. Comprehensive child find system and public awareness program. 1. The commissioner shall develop a comprehensive child find system that ensures that eligible children in the state are identified, located, referred to the early intervention official and evaluated. Such sys…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2543 Service coordinators
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§ 2543. Service coordinators. 1. Upon referral to the early intervention official of a child thought to be an eligible child by a parent or professional, the early intervention official shall promptly designate an initial service coordinator, selecting whenever appropriate a ser…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2544 Screening and evaluations
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§ 2544. Screening and evaluations. 1. Each child thought to be an eligible child is entitled to a multidisciplinary evaluation, and the early intervention official shall ensure such evaluation, with parental consent. 2. (a) The parent may select an evaluator from the list of app…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2545 Individualized family services plans ("IFSP")
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§ 2545. Individualized family services plans ("IFSP"). 1. If the evaluator determines that the infant or toddler is an eligible child, the early intervention official shall convene a meeting, at a time and place convenient to the parent, consisting of the parent, such official, …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2546 Interim services
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§ 2546. Interim services. 1. Early intervention services for an eligible child and the child's family may commence before the completion of the evaluation and assessment in sections twenty-five hundred forty-four and twenty-five hundred forty-five of this title, if the following…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2547 Respite services
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§ 2547. Respite services. 1. Subject to the availability of federal funds, the commissioner shall allocate a portion of such funds for respite services for families of eligible children. The commissioner shall establish criteria for selecting families for such services, which ma…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2547-A Day care support services
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§ 2547-a. Day care support services. The commissioner shall allocate up to one million dollars of federal funds for purposes of establishing two or more demonstration programs for the provision of day care support services for eligible children which may include the use of parap…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2548 Transition plan
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§ 2548. Transition plan. To the extent that a toddler with a disability is thought to be eligible for services pursuant to section forty-four hundred ten of the education law, the service coordinator shall notify in writing the committee on preschool special education of the loc…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2549 Due process
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§ 2549. Due process. 1. If a parent disagrees with the determination of the evaluator or the local early intervention official with regard to the eligibility for or provision of early intervention services or if such official fails to act within such period of time as may be req…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2550 Responsibilities of lead agency
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§ 2550. Responsibilities of lead agency. 1. The lead agency is responsible for the general administration and supervision of programs and activities receiving assistance under this title, and the monitoring of programs and activities used by the state to carry out this title, wh…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2551 Coordinated standards and procedures
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§ 2551. Coordinated standards and procedures. 1. The state early intervention service agencies shall jointly establish coordinated standards and procedures for: (a) early intervention services and evaluations; (b) child find system and public awareness program; and (c) programs …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2552 Responsibility of municipality
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§ 2552. Responsibility of municipality. 1. Each municipality shall be responsible for ensuring that the early intervention services contained in an IFSP are provided to eligible children and their families who reside in such municipality. A municipality may monitor, which may in…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2553 Early intervention coordinating council
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§ 2553. Early intervention coordinating council. 1. (a) The department shall establish an early intervention coordinating council. (b) The council shall consist of thirty members, unless otherwise required by federal law, appointed by the governor. At least five members shall be…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2554 Local early intervention coordinating councils
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§ 2554. Local early intervention coordinating councils. 1. A local early intervention coordinating council shall be established in each municipality. The council shall consist of members appointed by the early intervention official. At least four members of each council shall be…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2556 Administrative costs
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§ 2556. Administrative costs. On or after July first, nineteen hundred ninety-four, and annually thereafter, municipalities shall be eligible for reimbursement for administrative costs exclusive of due process costs incurred during the preceding year pursuant to this title. Such…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2557 Financial responsibility and reimbursement
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§ 2557. Financial responsibility and reimbursement. 1. The approved costs for an eligible child who receives an evaluation and early intervention services pursuant to this title shall be a charge upon the municipality wherein the eligible child resides or, where the services are…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2558 Responsibility for certain temporary-resident infants and toddlers with disabilities
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§ 2558. Responsibility for certain temporary-resident infants and toddlers with disabilities. 1. Definitions. In addition to the definitions contained in section twenty-five hundred forty-one of this title, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Foster child…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2559 Medical assistance program payments
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§ 2559. Medical assistance program payments. 1. Nothing in this title\nshall be construed to permit the department or any other state agency or\nmunicipality to reduce medical assistance or other assistance or\nservices available to eligible children.\n 2. Notwithstanding any ot…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2559-A Transportation
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§ 2559-a. Transportation. The municipality in which an eligible child resides shall, beginning with the first day of service, provide either directly, by contract, or through reimbursement at a mileage rate authorized by the municipality for the use of a private vehicle or for o…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2559-B Regulations
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§ 2559-b. Regulations. The commissioner may adopt regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. In promulgating such regulations, the commissioner shall incorporate coordinated standards and procedures, where applicable, and shall consider the regulations, gui…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2570 Children's institutions; regular physician required
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§ 2570. Children's institutions; regular physician required. 1. Every institution in this state, operated for the express purpose of receiving or caring for dependent, neglected or destitute children or juvenile delinquents, except hospitals, shall have attached thereto a regula…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2571 Children's institutions; examination of children on admission
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§ 2571. Children's institutions; examination of children on admission. 1. The administrative officer or person in charge of every institution in this state operated for the express purpose of receiving or caring for dependent, neglected or destitute children or juvenile delinque…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2573 Children's institutions; inspections; reports
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§ 2573. Children's institutions; inspections; reports. 1. The administrative officer or person in charge and the regular physician of every institution caring for children referred to in this article shall make such reports concerning the physical condition and health of the chi…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2574 Children's institutions; environmental sanitation
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§ 2574. Children's institutions; environmental sanitation. Every institution caring for children referred to in this article shall comply with such orders, rules and regulations respecting water supply, milk supply, sewerage disposal, food handling, and other sanitary matters as…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2575 Children's institutions; duty of local health officer
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§ 2575. Children's institutions; duty of local health officer. 1. The county, part-county, city (over fifty thousand population) health commissioner or district state health officer within whose jurisdiction any institution for the care of children, referred to in this article, …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2580 Children with physical disabilities; policy
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§ 2580. Children with physical disabilities; policy. It is the policy of the state of New York to provide medical service for the treatment and rehabilitation of children with physical disabilities.
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2581 Children with physical disabilities; definitions
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§ 2581. Children with physical disabilities; definitions. As used in this article: 1. "Children with physical disabilities" means any persons under twenty-one years of age who are disabled by reason of a defect or disability, whether congenital or acquired by accident, injury, o…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2582 Children with physical disabilities; duty of the department
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§ 2582. Children with physical disabilities; duty of the department. 1. The department shall on its own initiative provide, within the limits of the appropriations made therefor, such medical service for children with physical disabilities as in the judgment of the commissioner …
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2583 Children with physical disabilities; rules and regulations; limitations
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§ 2583. Children with physical disabilities; rules and regulations; limitations. 1. Such service shall be provided in accordance with rules and regulations established by the commissioner. The commissioner's rules and regulations may relate to: (a) the defects, disabilities, dis…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2584 Children with physical disabilities; transportation
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§ 2584. Children with physical disabilities; transportation. 1. The department shall on its own initiative provide, within the limits of the appropriations made therefor, such transportation for such children with physical disabilities as in the judgment of the commissioner is n…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2585 Federal child care and adult food progam; establishment
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§ 2585. Federal child care and adult food progam; establishment. There is hereby established within the department the federal child care and adult food program for the purpose of providing nutritious meals to children and adults in or under the auspices of institutions providin…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2586 Definitions
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§ 2586. Definitions. As used in this title, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: 1. "Eligible institution" means any child or adult day care institution defined in federal law, rule or regulations eligible to recei…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2587 Program approval
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§ 2587. Program approval. 1. Eligible institutions seeking cash assistance under the program shall submit an application to the commissioner. Such application shall be in a format and quantity determined by the commissioner, and shall include: (a) a general description of the pr…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2588 Reimbursement
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§ 2588. Reimbursement. 1. The total amount of cash assistance provided pursuant to this title shall be limited to the amount of federal funds appropriated for the program. 2. Eligible institutions approved by the commissioner pursuant to section two thousand five hundred eighty-…
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2589 Rules and regulations
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§ 2589. Rules and regulations. The commissioner may adopt and amend rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes and provisions of this title.
N.Y. Public Health Law § 2590 Emergency nutrition aid program for pregnant women and adolescents; establishment
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* § 2590. Emergency nutrition aid program for pregnant women and adolescents; establishment. The emergency nutrition aid program for pregnant women and adolescents is established within the department of health. * NB Expired March 31, 1986