2180 – Definitions.
§ 2180. Definitions. As used in this title the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. “Contact tracing” means COVID-19 case investigation and identification of case individuals and contact individuals. 2. (a) “Contact tracer” and “contact tracing entity” means an individual or entity employed by or under contract with the state, a local government, […]
2181 – Covid-19 Contact Tracing; Confidentiality.
§ 2181. COVID-19 contact tracing; confidentiality. 1. (a) All contact tracing information shall be kept confidential by any contact tracer, contact tracing entity, or designated non-governmental entity and may not be disclosed except as necessary to carry out contact tracing or a permitted purpose. A designated non-governmental entity may only act in relation to contact […]
2182 – Regulations.
§ 2182. Regulations. The commissioner shall make regulations as reasonably necessary to implement this title.
2183 – Immunity Passports.
§ 2183. Immunity passports. 1. Any covered entity that requires proof of COVID-19 immunization shall permit the use of physical immunity passports. No covered entity may require digital, electronic, or smartphone-based proof of immunity. Notwithstanding this section, anyone requiring an immunization passport shall accept a valid COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card allocated to COVID-19 vaccine providers […]
2168 – Statewide Immunization Information System.
§ 2168. Statewide immunization information system. 1. The department is hereby directed to establish a statewide automated and electronic immunization information system that will serve, and shall be administered consistent with, the following public health purposes: (a) collect reports of immunizations and thus reduce the incidence of illness, disability and death due to vaccine preventable […]
2169 – Vaccine Confidentiality.
§ 2169. Vaccine confidentiality. 1. As used in this section, unless context requires otherwise: (a) The term “consent” shall mean informed, affirmative, and voluntary authorization. (b) The term “de-identified” shall mean that the information cannot identify or be made to identify or be associated with a particular individual, directly or indirectly, and is subject to […]
2170 – Hepatitis C; Educational Materials.
§ 2170. Hepatitis C; educational materials. The commissioner shall develop and make available to physicians, other health care providers, veterans and other persons at high risk for hepatitis C educational materials, in written and electronic forms, on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of hepatitis C. Such materials shall include the recommendations of the federal Centers […]
2171 – Required Offering of Hepatitis C Screening Testing.
* § 2171. Required offering of hepatitis C screening testing. * 1. Every individual born between the years of nineteen hundred forty-five and nineteen hundred sixty-five who receives health services as an inpatient in a general hospital defined in subdivision ten of section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter or who receives primary care services […]
2161 – Poliomyelitis; Persons Twenty-One Years of Age and Over; Care and Maintenance.
§ 2161. Poliomyelitis; persons twenty-one years of age and over; care and maintenance. Every county or part-county health commissioner, city health officer in cities having more than fifty thousand population, and state district health officer shall, within their respective areas and after approval by the commissioner, provide at the remediable stages of the disease known […]
2162 – Poliomyelitis; Application of Statute; City of New York.
§ 2162. Poliomyelitis; application of statute; city of New York. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or any other general, special or local law, the terms “local board of health” and “health officers” as used in sections two thousand one hundred sixty and two thousand one hundred sixty-one of this chapter shall include the […]