Legislation
CHAPTER 45
Public Health
CHAPTER 879
AN ACT in relation to the public health, constituting chapter
forty-five of the consolidated laws
Became a law April 20, 1953, with the approval of the Governor. Passed,
by a majority vote, three-fifths being present
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:
CHAPTER 45 OF THE CONSOLIDATED LAWS
PUBLIC HEALTH LAW
Article
1. Short title and definitions: general provisions
Title I. Short title and definitions (§§1-2).
II. General provisions (§§10-24).
III. Office of the medicaid inspector general
(§§30-36).
2. The department of health.
Title I. Officers and employees (§§200--211-a).
II. The public health council (§§220-229).
II-A. Professional medical conduct (§§230--230-e).
* II-B. New York state health services corps
(§§231-233).
* NB Expired July 18, 1996
II-C. Charles D. Cook office of rural health
(§§234-237).
II-D. Health care practitioner referrals
(§§238--238-e).
II-E. HIV/HBV/HCV prevention training (§§239--239-b).
II-F. Office of minority health (§§240*-244*).
III. State health areas (§§240-243).
IV. Spinal cord injury research board (§§250-251).
V. Health care practitioner volunteer pilot
program (§260).
V*. Obesity prevention act (§§260*-263).
5-A. Empire State Stem Cell Board (§§ 265--265-f).
VI. Women's Health (§§ 266-268).
6-A. The 21st century workgroup for disease
elimination and reduction (§ 266-a).
VII. NY State of Health (§§ 268-268-h).
8. Hunger prevention and nutrition assistance
program (§ 269).
2-A. Prescription drugs.
Title I. Preferred drug and clinical drug review
programs (§§ 270-277).
II. Prescription drugs; various provisions (§§
278--280-c).
III. Prescription forms, electronic prescribing and
language assistance (§ 281).
2-B. Drug take back (§§ 290-294).
3. Local health organization.
Title I. Local boards of health; general provisions
(§§300-312).
II. Local health officers (§§320-329).
III. County and part-county health districts
(§§340-357).
IV. Certain cities (§§360-378).
V. State park health districts (§§380-383).
VI. Consolidated health districts (§§390-399).
4. Property and hospitals in the department of health
Title I. General provisions (§§401-410).
II. Hospitals; boards of visitors (§§420-425).
IV. Hospitals; officers and employees (§§450-455).
4-A. Regulation of body piercing and tattooing (§§460-467).
4-B. Tongue-splitting (§470).
5. Laboratories
Title I. General provisions: state laboratories;
approved laboratories (§§500-506).
II. County laboratories (§§520-528).
III. City laboratories (§§540-545).
IV. Laboratory supply stations (§§560-563).
V. Clinical laboratory and blood banking services
(§§570-581).
VI. Laboratory business practices (§§585-588).
6. State aid to cities and counties
Title I. State aid for basic services (§§600-607).
II. State aid for additional services (§§608-613).
III. State aid; general provisions (§§614-621).
6-A. Rape crisis intervention and prevention program
(§§695--695-e).
7. Federal grants-in-aid (§§700-703).
8. State health research council (§§800-803).
9. Primary care education and training (§§900-907).
9-A. New York state small business health insurance partnership
program (§§921-922).
9-B. Primary Care Service Corps Practitioner Loan Repayment
Program (§§923-924).
11. Public water supplies; sewerage and sewage control
Title I. Potable waters (§§1100--1114-a).
II. Realty subdivisions: water supply
(§§1115-1120).
II-A. Water supply emergency plans (§1125).
III. Annual water supply statement (§§1150-1153).
IV. Drinking water revolving fund (§§1160-1169).
13. Nuisances and sanitation
Title I. General provisions: control and abatement
(§§1300-1310).
II. Noxious weeds and growths (§§1320-1321).
III. Tenement house sanitation (§1325).
IV. Labor camp sanitation (§1330).
V. Suppression of certain businesses
(§§1335-1336).
VI. Bathing establishments (§§1340-1342).
VII. Hotel sanitation (§§1345-1348).
VIII. Food handling (§§1350-1356).
IX. Location and disposition of radioactive gold
jewelry (§1360).
X. Control of lead poisoning (§§1370-1377).
XI. State aid; planning for construction of solid
waste management facilities (§§1380-1383).
XII. Toxic substances (§§1385-1389).
XII-A. Inactive hazardous waste disposal sites
(§§1389-a--1389-e).
XIII. Storage, treatment and disposal of infectious
waste (§§1389-aa--1389-gg).
13-A. State camp safety advisory council (§1390).
13-B. Regulation of overnight, summer day, and traveling summer day
camps for children (§§1391-1396).
13-D. Regulation of housing; used as accommodations by employees of
certain motels and hotels (§§1399-j--1399-m).
13-E. Regulation of smoking and vaping in certain public areas
(§§1399-n--1399-x).
13-F. Regulation of tobacco products and herbal cigarettes;
distribution to minors (§§1399-aa--1399-mm-3).
13-G. Tobacco escrow funds (§§1399-nn--1399-pp).
13-H. Regulation of sharps (§§1399-ss--1399-ww).
14. Regulation of camps for children (§§1400-1407).
15. Insect control
Title I. Municipal insect control (§§1500-1503).
II. County insect control (§§1520-1531).
16. Pesticide control board (§§1601-1609).
17. Ingredient disclosures for vapor products and e-cigarettes
(§§ 1700-1702).
20. Reporting of Alzheimer's Disease (§§2000--2004-a).
20-a. Alzheimer's Community Assistance Program (§§2005-2009).
21. Control of acute communicable diseases
Title I. General provisions (§§2100-2112).
II. Control of patients (§§2120-2125).
III. Human immunodeficiency virus (§§2130-2139).
IV. Rabies (§§2140-2146).
V. Typhoid fever (§§2150-2153).
VI. Poliomyelitis and Other Diseases (§§2160-2169).
VII. Hepatitis C (§§2170-2171).
8. Novel coronavirus, COVID-19 (§§2180-2183).
21-A. Long-term care resident and employee immunization act
(§§2190-2196).
22. Control of tuberculosis
Title I. General provisions (§§2200-2207).
II. Control (§§2221-2230).
23. Control of sexually transmissible diseases
Title I. Care and treatment (§§2300-2312).
II. Houses of prostitution: injunction and
abatement (§§2320-2334).
24. Control of malignant diseases
Title I. General provisions (§§2400--2404-d).
Title I-A. Cancer Detection and Education Program
(§§2405--2409-a).
Title I-B. Health Research Science Board (§§2410-2413).
II. State institute for the study of malignant
diseases (§§2420-2423).
24-A. Protection of human subjects (§§2440-2446).
24-B. Information program on dioxin (§2475).
24-C. Information program on low-level radioactive waste (§2485).
24-D. New York state occupational health clinics oversight
committee (§§2490--2490-a).
24-E. Information about hysterectomy (§§2495--2499-a).
25. Maternal and child health
Title I. General provisions (§§2500--2509-c).
I-A. Child health insurance plan (§§2510-2511).
1-B. Adolescent pregnancy prevention and services
program (§§ 2515-2515-c).
II. Prenatal care (§§2522-2532).
II-A. Early intervention program for infants and
toddlers with disabilities and their families
(§§2540--2559-b).
IV. Institutions for children (§§2570-2575).
V. Children with physical disabilities
(§§2580-2584).
VI*. Federal child care and adult food program
(§§2585-2589).
* VI. Emergency nutrition aid program for pregnant
women and adolescents (§§2590-2592)
* NB Expired March 31, 1986
VII. Youth sports (§ 2595).
VIII. Childhood obesity prevention program
(§§2599-a--2599-d).
25-A. Reproductive health act (§§ 2599-aa--2599-bb).
25-B. Gestational surrogacy (§ 2599-cc).
26. Helen Hayes Hospital (§§2600-2602).
26-A. New York state veterans' home (§§2630-2635).
27. Bureau of chronic disease and geriatrics (§§2700-2702).
27-A. Osteoporosis prevention and education (§§2705-2706).
27-AA. New York state kidney disease institute (§§ 2710-2712).
27-B. Treatment of hypertension.
Title I. Mary Lasker Heart and Hypertension Institute
(§§2720-2722).
II. Centers for the treatment of hypertension
(§§2723-2724).
27-C. Birth defects institute (§§2730-2733).
27-CC. New York state traumatic brain injury program (§§2740-2744).
27-CCC. Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and
treatment program (§ 2747).
27-D. New York state burns care institute (§§2750-2752).
27-DD. State advisory panel on HIV/HBV infected health care workers
(§§2760-2761).
27-E. The acquired immune deficiency syndrome institute
(§§2775-2779).
27-F. HIV and AIDS related information (§§2780-2787).
27-H*. Diabetes research and education program (§2796).
27-H. The Tick-Borne Disease Institute (§§2797--2798).
27-K. New York Wellness Works (§§2799-o--2799-r).
28. Hospitals (§§2800-2830).
28-A. Nursing home companies (§§2850-2869).
28-B. Hospital mortgage loan construction (§§2870-2883).
28-C. Nurse manpower center (§§2890-2892).
28-D. Practice of nursing home administration
Title I. General provisions and public policy
(§§2895--2895-a).
II. Licensing and registration (§§2896--2896-h).
III. Violations; penalties (§§2897--2897-d).
IV. Construction (§§2898--2898-a).
28-E. Review of criminal history information concerning prospective
employees of nursing homes and home care services agencies
(§§2899--2899-a).
29. Hospital survey, planning and review (§§2901-2907).
29-A. Access to community health care services in rural areas.
Title I. Rural health care access (§§2950-2958).
1-A. Rural dentistry pilot program (§2958-a).
29-AA. Patient centered medical homes (§ 2959-a).
29-B. Orders not to resuscitate (§§2960-2979).
29-C. Health care agents and proxies (§§2980-2994).
29-CC. Family health care decisions act (§§ 2994-a--2994-u).
29-CCC. Nonhospital orders not to resuscitate (§§ 2994-aa--2994-gg).
29-CCCC. CARE act (caregiver advise, record and enable act)
(§§ 2994-hh--2994-mm).
29-D. Health information and quality improvement.
Title I. Health information (§§2995--2997-f-1).
1-A. Safe patient handling (§§2997-g--2997-l).
II. Quality improvement (§§2998--2999-a).
3. Pay for performance (§§2999-b--2999-f).
4. New York state medical indemnity fund
(§§2999-g--2999-j).
5. New York state hospital quality initiative
(§2999-m).
29-E. Accountable care organizations demonstration program (§§
2999-n--2999-r).
29-EE. Program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (§§
2999-s--2999-y).
29-F. Improved integration of health care and financing (§§
2999-aa--2999-bb).
29-G. Telehealth delivery of services (§§ 2999-cc--2999-ee).
29-I. Medical services for foster children (§ 2999-gg).
29-J. Medical respite program (§ 2999-hh).
29-K. Registration of temporary health care services agencies and
health care technology platforms (§§ 2999-ii--2999-mm).
30. Emergency medical services (§§3000-3034).
30-A. Emergency medical services personnel training act of nineteen
hundred eighty-six (§§3050-3054).
30-B. Emergency medical, trauma and disaster care (§§3060-3066).
30-C. Emergency medical services for children (§§3070-3075).
31. Human blood and transfusion services
Title I. General provisions (§3100).
II. Regulation of the business of blood donating
(§§3120-3122).
III. Blood donors of the age of eighteen years or
over (§§3123-3124).
32. Live pathogenic microorganisms or viruses (§§3200-3203).
32-A. Recombinant DNA Experiments (§§3220-3223).
33. Controlled substances
Title I. General provisions (§§3300-3309-a).
II. Manufacture and distribution of controlled
substances (§§3310-3322).
2-A. Opioid stewardship act (§ 3323).
III. Research, instructional activities, and
chemical analysis relating to controlled
substances (§§3324-3329).
IV. Dispensing to ultimate users (§§3330-3345).
V. Dispensing to addicts and habitual users
(§§3350-3352).
V-A. Medical use of marihuana (§§ 3360--3369-e).
VI. Records and reports (§§3370-3374).
VII. Offenses, violations and enforcement
(§§3380-3397).
33-A. Controlled substances therapeutic research act
(§§3397-a--3397-f).
33-B Regulation of cannabinoid hemp and hemp extract (§§
3398--3398-u).
34. Funeral directing
Title I. General provisions (§§3400-3404).
II. Licensing and registration (§§3420-3429).
III. Practice of funeral directing; funeral
establishments (§§3440-3444).
IV. Enforcement and discipline; violations and
penalties (§§3450-3457).
35. Practice of x-ray technology
Title I. General provisions and public policy
(§§3500-3501).
II. Licensing and registration (§§3502-3509).
III. Violations; penalties (§§3510-3514).
IV. Construction (§§3515-3518).
35-A. Ultraviolet radiation devices (§§3550-3556).
36. Home Care Services (§§3600-3622).
36-A. Medical equipment service agencies (§§3650-3656).
37. Physician's assistants and specialist's assistants
(§§3700-3703).
37-A. Specialist assistants (§ 3710-3711).
38. Veterans health manpower center (§§3800-3803).
39. New York State Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health
(§§3900-3908).
40. Hospice (§§4000-4015).
41. Vital statistics
Title I. General provisions (§§4100-4104).
II. Registration districts: registrars, physicians,
midwives and funeral directors (§§ 4120-4124).
III. Registration of births (§§4130--4138-e).
III-A. Filing of certificates of dissolution of
marriage (§4139).
IV. Registration of deaths; burial permits
(§§4140-4148).
V. Registration of fetal deaths (§§4160-4163).
V-A. Induced viable births.
VI. Registration of persons in institutions
(§4165).
VII. Vital statistics records (§§4170-4179).
42. Cadavers
Title I. Disposition (§§4200-4203).
II. Autopsy and dissection (§§4209-4222).
43. Anatomical gifts (§§4300-4310).
43-A. Request for consent to an anatomical gift (§4351).
43-B. Organ procurement and donor support
Title 1. Organ, tissue and body parts procurement and
storage (§§4360-4369).
2. Living organ donation (§§4370-4372).
44. Health maintenance organizations (§§4400-4416).
45. Medical referral services (§§4500-4503).
45-A. Disclosure of material transactions (§§ 4550-4552).
46. Continuing care retirement communities (§§4600-4624).
46-A. Fee-for-service continuing care retirement communities
demonstration program (§§4650-4676).
46-B. Assisted living.
Title I. Findings and definitions (§§4650*-4651*).
II. Assisted living (§§4652*-4653*).
III. Enhanced assisted living certificate
(§§4654*-4655*).
IV. General requirements (§§4656*-4663*).
47. Shared health facilities (§§4700-4718).
48. Toxic substances (§§4800-4808).
49. Utilization review.
Title I. Certification of agents and utilization review
process (§§4900-4908).
II. Right to external appeal (§§4910-4917).
50. Separability clause; saving clause; construction; laws
repealed; time of taking effect (§§5000-5003).
AN ACT in relation to the public health, constituting chapter
forty-five of the consolidated laws
Became a law April 20, 1953, with the approval of the Governor. Passed,
by a majority vote, three-fifths being present
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:
CHAPTER 45 OF THE CONSOLIDATED LAWS
PUBLIC HEALTH LAW
Article
1. Short title and definitions: general provisions
Title I. Short title and definitions (§§1-2).
II. General provisions (§§10-24).
III. Office of the medicaid inspector general
(§§30-36).
2. The department of health.
Title I. Officers and employees (§§200--211-a).
II. The public health council (§§220-229).
II-A. Professional medical conduct (§§230--230-e).
* II-B. New York state health services corps
(§§231-233).
* NB Expired July 18, 1996
II-C. Charles D. Cook office of rural health
(§§234-237).
II-D. Health care practitioner referrals
(§§238--238-e).
II-E. HIV/HBV/HCV prevention training (§§239--239-b).
II-F. Office of minority health (§§240*-244*).
III. State health areas (§§240-243).
IV. Spinal cord injury research board (§§250-251).
V. Health care practitioner volunteer pilot
program (§260).
V*. Obesity prevention act (§§260*-263).
5-A. Empire State Stem Cell Board (§§ 265--265-f).
VI. Women's Health (§§ 266-268).
6-A. The 21st century workgroup for disease
elimination and reduction (§ 266-a).
VII. NY State of Health (§§ 268-268-h).
8. Hunger prevention and nutrition assistance
program (§ 269).
2-A. Prescription drugs.
Title I. Preferred drug and clinical drug review
programs (§§ 270-277).
II. Prescription drugs; various provisions (§§
278--280-c).
III. Prescription forms, electronic prescribing and
language assistance (§ 281).
2-B. Drug take back (§§ 290-294).
3. Local health organization.
Title I. Local boards of health; general provisions
(§§300-312).
II. Local health officers (§§320-329).
III. County and part-county health districts
(§§340-357).
IV. Certain cities (§§360-378).
V. State park health districts (§§380-383).
VI. Consolidated health districts (§§390-399).
4. Property and hospitals in the department of health
Title I. General provisions (§§401-410).
II. Hospitals; boards of visitors (§§420-425).
IV. Hospitals; officers and employees (§§450-455).
4-A. Regulation of body piercing and tattooing (§§460-467).
4-B. Tongue-splitting (§470).
5. Laboratories
Title I. General provisions: state laboratories;
approved laboratories (§§500-506).
II. County laboratories (§§520-528).
III. City laboratories (§§540-545).
IV. Laboratory supply stations (§§560-563).
V. Clinical laboratory and blood banking services
(§§570-581).
VI. Laboratory business practices (§§585-588).
6. State aid to cities and counties
Title I. State aid for basic services (§§600-607).
II. State aid for additional services (§§608-613).
III. State aid; general provisions (§§614-621).
6-A. Rape crisis intervention and prevention program
(§§695--695-e).
7. Federal grants-in-aid (§§700-703).
8. State health research council (§§800-803).
9. Primary care education and training (§§900-907).
9-A. New York state small business health insurance partnership
program (§§921-922).
9-B. Primary Care Service Corps Practitioner Loan Repayment
Program (§§923-924).
11. Public water supplies; sewerage and sewage control
Title I. Potable waters (§§1100--1114-a).
II. Realty subdivisions: water supply
(§§1115-1120).
II-A. Water supply emergency plans (§1125).
III. Annual water supply statement (§§1150-1153).
IV. Drinking water revolving fund (§§1160-1169).
13. Nuisances and sanitation
Title I. General provisions: control and abatement
(§§1300-1310).
II. Noxious weeds and growths (§§1320-1321).
III. Tenement house sanitation (§1325).
IV. Labor camp sanitation (§1330).
V. Suppression of certain businesses
(§§1335-1336).
VI. Bathing establishments (§§1340-1342).
VII. Hotel sanitation (§§1345-1348).
VIII. Food handling (§§1350-1356).
IX. Location and disposition of radioactive gold
jewelry (§1360).
X. Control of lead poisoning (§§1370-1377).
XI. State aid; planning for construction of solid
waste management facilities (§§1380-1383).
XII. Toxic substances (§§1385-1389).
XII-A. Inactive hazardous waste disposal sites
(§§1389-a--1389-e).
XIII. Storage, treatment and disposal of infectious
waste (§§1389-aa--1389-gg).
13-A. State camp safety advisory council (§1390).
13-B. Regulation of overnight, summer day, and traveling summer day
camps for children (§§1391-1396).
13-D. Regulation of housing; used as accommodations by employees of
certain motels and hotels (§§1399-j--1399-m).
13-E. Regulation of smoking and vaping in certain public areas
(§§1399-n--1399-x).
13-F. Regulation of tobacco products and herbal cigarettes;
distribution to minors (§§1399-aa--1399-mm-3).
13-G. Tobacco escrow funds (§§1399-nn--1399-pp).
13-H. Regulation of sharps (§§1399-ss--1399-ww).
14. Regulation of camps for children (§§1400-1407).
15. Insect control
Title I. Municipal insect control (§§1500-1503).
II. County insect control (§§1520-1531).
16. Pesticide control board (§§1601-1609).
17. Ingredient disclosures for vapor products and e-cigarettes
(§§ 1700-1702).
20. Reporting of Alzheimer's Disease (§§2000--2004-a).
20-a. Alzheimer's Community Assistance Program (§§2005-2009).
21. Control of acute communicable diseases
Title I. General provisions (§§2100-2112).
II. Control of patients (§§2120-2125).
III. Human immunodeficiency virus (§§2130-2139).
IV. Rabies (§§2140-2146).
V. Typhoid fever (§§2150-2153).
VI. Poliomyelitis and Other Diseases (§§2160-2169).
VII. Hepatitis C (§§2170-2171).
8. Novel coronavirus, COVID-19 (§§2180-2183).
21-A. Long-term care resident and employee immunization act
(§§2190-2196).
22. Control of tuberculosis
Title I. General provisions (§§2200-2207).
II. Control (§§2221-2230).
23. Control of sexually transmissible diseases
Title I. Care and treatment (§§2300-2312).
II. Houses of prostitution: injunction and
abatement (§§2320-2334).
24. Control of malignant diseases
Title I. General provisions (§§2400--2404-d).
Title I-A. Cancer Detection and Education Program
(§§2405--2409-a).
Title I-B. Health Research Science Board (§§2410-2413).
II. State institute for the study of malignant
diseases (§§2420-2423).
24-A. Protection of human subjects (§§2440-2446).
24-B. Information program on dioxin (§2475).
24-C. Information program on low-level radioactive waste (§2485).
24-D. New York state occupational health clinics oversight
committee (§§2490--2490-a).
24-E. Information about hysterectomy (§§2495--2499-a).
25. Maternal and child health
Title I. General provisions (§§2500--2509-c).
I-A. Child health insurance plan (§§2510-2511).
1-B. Adolescent pregnancy prevention and services
program (§§ 2515-2515-c).
II. Prenatal care (§§2522-2532).
II-A. Early intervention program for infants and
toddlers with disabilities and their families
(§§2540--2559-b).
IV. Institutions for children (§§2570-2575).
V. Children with physical disabilities
(§§2580-2584).
VI*. Federal child care and adult food program
(§§2585-2589).
* VI. Emergency nutrition aid program for pregnant
women and adolescents (§§2590-2592)
* NB Expired March 31, 1986
VII. Youth sports (§ 2595).
VIII. Childhood obesity prevention program
(§§2599-a--2599-d).
25-A. Reproductive health act (§§ 2599-aa--2599-bb).
25-B. Gestational surrogacy (§ 2599-cc).
26. Helen Hayes Hospital (§§2600-2602).
26-A. New York state veterans' home (§§2630-2635).
27. Bureau of chronic disease and geriatrics (§§2700-2702).
27-A. Osteoporosis prevention and education (§§2705-2706).
27-AA. New York state kidney disease institute (§§ 2710-2712).
27-B. Treatment of hypertension.
Title I. Mary Lasker Heart and Hypertension Institute
(§§2720-2722).
II. Centers for the treatment of hypertension
(§§2723-2724).
27-C. Birth defects institute (§§2730-2733).
27-CC. New York state traumatic brain injury program (§§2740-2744).
27-CCC. Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research, education and
treatment program (§ 2747).
27-D. New York state burns care institute (§§2750-2752).
27-DD. State advisory panel on HIV/HBV infected health care workers
(§§2760-2761).
27-E. The acquired immune deficiency syndrome institute
(§§2775-2779).
27-F. HIV and AIDS related information (§§2780-2787).
27-H*. Diabetes research and education program (§2796).
27-H. The Tick-Borne Disease Institute (§§2797--2798).
27-K. New York Wellness Works (§§2799-o--2799-r).
28. Hospitals (§§2800-2830).
28-A. Nursing home companies (§§2850-2869).
28-B. Hospital mortgage loan construction (§§2870-2883).
28-C. Nurse manpower center (§§2890-2892).
28-D. Practice of nursing home administration
Title I. General provisions and public policy
(§§2895--2895-a).
II. Licensing and registration (§§2896--2896-h).
III. Violations; penalties (§§2897--2897-d).
IV. Construction (§§2898--2898-a).
28-E. Review of criminal history information concerning prospective
employees of nursing homes and home care services agencies
(§§2899--2899-a).
29. Hospital survey, planning and review (§§2901-2907).
29-A. Access to community health care services in rural areas.
Title I. Rural health care access (§§2950-2958).
1-A. Rural dentistry pilot program (§2958-a).
29-AA. Patient centered medical homes (§ 2959-a).
29-B. Orders not to resuscitate (§§2960-2979).
29-C. Health care agents and proxies (§§2980-2994).
29-CC. Family health care decisions act (§§ 2994-a--2994-u).
29-CCC. Nonhospital orders not to resuscitate (§§ 2994-aa--2994-gg).
29-CCCC. CARE act (caregiver advise, record and enable act)
(§§ 2994-hh--2994-mm).
29-D. Health information and quality improvement.
Title I. Health information (§§2995--2997-f-1).
1-A. Safe patient handling (§§2997-g--2997-l).
II. Quality improvement (§§2998--2999-a).
3. Pay for performance (§§2999-b--2999-f).
4. New York state medical indemnity fund
(§§2999-g--2999-j).
5. New York state hospital quality initiative
(§2999-m).
29-E. Accountable care organizations demonstration program (§§
2999-n--2999-r).
29-EE. Program of all-inclusive care for the elderly (§§
2999-s--2999-y).
29-F. Improved integration of health care and financing (§§
2999-aa--2999-bb).
29-G. Telehealth delivery of services (§§ 2999-cc--2999-ee).
29-I. Medical services for foster children (§ 2999-gg).
29-J. Medical respite program (§ 2999-hh).
29-K. Registration of temporary health care services agencies and
health care technology platforms (§§ 2999-ii--2999-mm).
30. Emergency medical services (§§3000-3034).
30-A. Emergency medical services personnel training act of nineteen
hundred eighty-six (§§3050-3054).
30-B. Emergency medical, trauma and disaster care (§§3060-3066).
30-C. Emergency medical services for children (§§3070-3075).
31. Human blood and transfusion services
Title I. General provisions (§3100).
II. Regulation of the business of blood donating
(§§3120-3122).
III. Blood donors of the age of eighteen years or
over (§§3123-3124).
32. Live pathogenic microorganisms or viruses (§§3200-3203).
32-A. Recombinant DNA Experiments (§§3220-3223).
33. Controlled substances
Title I. General provisions (§§3300-3309-a).
II. Manufacture and distribution of controlled
substances (§§3310-3322).
2-A. Opioid stewardship act (§ 3323).
III. Research, instructional activities, and
chemical analysis relating to controlled
substances (§§3324-3329).
IV. Dispensing to ultimate users (§§3330-3345).
V. Dispensing to addicts and habitual users
(§§3350-3352).
V-A. Medical use of marihuana (§§ 3360--3369-e).
VI. Records and reports (§§3370-3374).
VII. Offenses, violations and enforcement
(§§3380-3397).
33-A. Controlled substances therapeutic research act
(§§3397-a--3397-f).
33-B Regulation of cannabinoid hemp and hemp extract (§§
3398--3398-u).
34. Funeral directing
Title I. General provisions (§§3400-3404).
II. Licensing and registration (§§3420-3429).
III. Practice of funeral directing; funeral
establishments (§§3440-3444).
IV. Enforcement and discipline; violations and
penalties (§§3450-3457).
35. Practice of x-ray technology
Title I. General provisions and public policy
(§§3500-3501).
II. Licensing and registration (§§3502-3509).
III. Violations; penalties (§§3510-3514).
IV. Construction (§§3515-3518).
35-A. Ultraviolet radiation devices (§§3550-3556).
36. Home Care Services (§§3600-3622).
36-A. Medical equipment service agencies (§§3650-3656).
37. Physician's assistants and specialist's assistants
(§§3700-3703).
37-A. Specialist assistants (§ 3710-3711).
38. Veterans health manpower center (§§3800-3803).
39. New York State Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health
(§§3900-3908).
40. Hospice (§§4000-4015).
41. Vital statistics
Title I. General provisions (§§4100-4104).
II. Registration districts: registrars, physicians,
midwives and funeral directors (§§ 4120-4124).
III. Registration of births (§§4130--4138-e).
III-A. Filing of certificates of dissolution of
marriage (§4139).
IV. Registration of deaths; burial permits
(§§4140-4148).
V. Registration of fetal deaths (§§4160-4163).
V-A. Induced viable births.
VI. Registration of persons in institutions
(§4165).
VII. Vital statistics records (§§4170-4179).
42. Cadavers
Title I. Disposition (§§4200-4203).
II. Autopsy and dissection (§§4209-4222).
43. Anatomical gifts (§§4300-4310).
43-A. Request for consent to an anatomical gift (§4351).
43-B. Organ procurement and donor support
Title 1. Organ, tissue and body parts procurement and
storage (§§4360-4369).
2. Living organ donation (§§4370-4372).
44. Health maintenance organizations (§§4400-4416).
45. Medical referral services (§§4500-4503).
45-A. Disclosure of material transactions (§§ 4550-4552).
46. Continuing care retirement communities (§§4600-4624).
46-A. Fee-for-service continuing care retirement communities
demonstration program (§§4650-4676).
46-B. Assisted living.
Title I. Findings and definitions (§§4650*-4651*).
II. Assisted living (§§4652*-4653*).
III. Enhanced assisted living certificate
(§§4654*-4655*).
IV. General requirements (§§4656*-4663*).
47. Shared health facilities (§§4700-4718).
48. Toxic substances (§§4800-4808).
49. Utilization review.
Title I. Certification of agents and utilization review
process (§§4900-4908).
II. Right to external appeal (§§4910-4917).
50. Separability clause; saving clause; construction; laws
repealed; time of taking effect (§§5000-5003).