2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 13-B - (1391 - 1396) REGULATION OF OVERNIGHT, SUMMER DAY, AND TRAVELING SUMMER DAY CAMPS FOR CHILDREN
1394 - Children's camps; standards and regulations.

 
    §  1394.  Children's  camps;  standards and regulations. 1. The public
  health council shall prescribe standards and establish  regulations  for
  children's  overnight,  summer  day  and  traveling summer day camps, as
  defined in this article, concerning such matters as may  be  appropriate
  for  the  protection  and security of the life, health and safety of the
  occupants of such camps.
    2. All buses or other motor vehicles which are owned  by  a  traveling
  summer  day  camp  or  which are operated or leased by such camp for the
  purpose of transporting children attending  such  camp  shall  meet  the
  requirements  for  safe  operation  of  such vehicles as provided for in
  section one hundred forty of the transportation law.
    3. Any person, firm,  corporation,  or  association  that  operates  a
  children's  overnight, summer day, or traveling summer day camp, and has
  obtained a permit pursuant to section thirteen hundred  ninety-three  of
  this  article,  shall  be  authorized  to  employ  or  contract  with  a
  physician, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, registered nurse, or
  licensed practical nurse or emergency medical technician  to  act  as  a
  designated  camp  health  director  or  to  provide  health  services in
  assistance  to  the  camp  health  director   pursuant   to   applicable
  regulations promulgated by the commissioner.
    4.  Each  children's  overnight  camp,  summer day camp and travelling
  summer day camp shall allow children attending such camp  to  carry  and
  use  topical  sunscreen  products  approved by the federal Food and Drug
  Administration for over-the-counter use  for  the  purpose  of  avoiding
  overexposure  to  the  sun and not for medical treatment of an injury or
  illness, with the written permission of the parent or  guardian  of  the
  child.  A  record  of such permission shall be maintained by the camp. A
  child who is unable to physically apply sunscreen  may  be  assisted  by
  unlicensed  personnel  when directed to do so by the child, if permitted
  by a parent or guardian and authorized by the camp.