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 […]
2146 – City of New York; Exceptions.
§ 2146. City of New York; exceptions. The provisions of sections two thousand one hundred forty through two thousand one hundred forty-five of this title, inclusive, shall not apply to the city of New York.
2150 – Typhoid Fever; Carriers; Care and Maintenance, in Institutions.
§ 2150. Typhoid fever; carriers; care and maintenance, in institutions. Whenever any person is declared by the commissioner to be a carrier of typhoid fever bacilli and whenever, for the protection of the public health, the commissioner certifies to the necessity of continued isolation; or, whenever, the sanitary code prohibits a carrier of typhoid fever […]
2151 – Typhoid Fever; Carriers; Care and Maintenance, Privately.
§ 2151. Typhoid fever; carriers; care and maintenance, privately. When no hospital or institution is available for the care of a carrier of typhoid fever bacilli in accordance with the provisions of section two thousand one hundred fifty of this chapter, and when in the opinion of the commissioner such person may be cared for […]
2152 – Typhoid Fever; Carriers; Care and Maintenance, Payment of Expenses.
§ 2152. Typhoid fever; carriers; care and maintenance, payment of expenses. 1. No expenditure for the purposes authorized in sections two thousand one hundred fifty and two thousand one hundred fifty-one of this chapter, shall be contracted for or incurred by any agency or person until after such expense has been authorized and approved by […]
2153 – City of New York; Exceptions.
§ 2153. City of New York; exceptions. The provisions of sections two thousand one hundred fifty to two thousand one hundred fifty-two of this chapter, inclusive, shall not apply to the city of New York.
2160 – Poliomyelitis; Persons Twenty-One Years of Age and Over; Medical Inspection.
§ 2160. Poliomyelitis; persons twenty-one years of age and over; medical inspection. In addition to the powers and duties prescribed by section two thousand one hundred of this chapter, every local board of health and every health officer shall exercise proper and vigilant medical inspection of all persons twenty-one years of age or over, infected […]