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 […]
2142 – Rabies; Emergency Provisions.
§ 2142. Rabies; emergency provisions. Whenever the commissioner confirms an outbreak of the disease rabies in terrestrial animals in any county or the vicinity thereof, the commissioner shall declare a rabies alert for that area and so certify to the county or local health authorities or any local health district contained therein. It shall be […]
2143 – Rabies; Seizure and Disposal; Reports.
§ 2143. Rabies; seizure and disposal; reports. Whenever the commissioner certifies a county to have a rabies alert pursuant to section twenty-one hundred forty-two of this title, any duly appointed dog control officer, animal control officer, peace officer, police officer, or health officer for that area may seize and confine any dog, cat or domesticated […]
2144 – Rabies; County Responsibility.
§ 2144. Rabies; county responsibility. Each county health authority is required to develop a rabies control protocol that identifies and coordinates all activities within the county to accomplish a comprehensive rabies response. The county health authority shall have responsibility for the implementation of the protocol, including the coordination of the response to rabies issues by […]
2145 – Rabies; Services and Expenses of Suppression.
§ 2145. Rabies; services and expenses of suppression. 1. The county health authority is responsible for the services and expenses necessary for the suppression of human rabies. Suppression of human rabies shall include, but not be limited to: (a) availability at all times for prompt investigation of reports of possible exposures to rabies of people, […]
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 […]